And then.

The Hello, you are listening to Red Minus. This is a podcast where normally we go into a specific work of theory and talk about how that applies to our current situation and how us

as Marxist and organizers can use that or alternatively we occasionally go into current events

and dive into how we can think about the chaotic situation

that we are in in the world today through the lens of Marxism.

And today we're doing something that's kind of in between those two things.

We are going to be kind of trying to make an introductory approach to Marxism for people who might need something that's not so thoroughly grounded in one book,

but more sort of a broader overview of what

Marxism is and why it matters for us today. So that's really what we're going to be

focusing on. It sort of breaks the mold of the two formats we've used in the

past, but if you are interested in what we're doing,

you can find us on Twitter at The Red Minus and then you can also find us on Patreon as well,

where we have bonus episodes that you can listen to that's really get into sort of details about

you know some of our thought processes behind our episodes supplementary materials and also

Q&A questions that we go over with patrons to kind of provide more depth for what we're talking about.

So if any of that interests you, we are online and you can find that information.

But today we are going to kind of try to make a case to you that Marxism is something that you should be

considering and understanding and then trying to provide the tools to understand that.

I think pretty much everyone regardless that their political orientation is aware that we're living in extremely

chaotic times right now. You know, we are at a point where there are mainstream conversations

about civil collapse in the United States and these are thoughts that are not just happening on sort of the radical fringes,

but are being talked about by academics, being talked about by politicians, being talked about by mainstream publications,

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