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Stelly and we're talking about some intertwined issues that she works on, racial capitalism,

the history of black leftism, and how the U.S. state combined anti-communism and anti-black

racism to repress the black left. We cover a lot of ground in this interview because

Berden Stelly covers a whole lot of ground in her work and I will link to some of that work

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