Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

For today we're doing the fourth installment of our ongoing sort of collaboration with

Unity and Struggle and today's topic is going to be centered around race and alienation.

On our sister podcast Red Menace we recently covered the Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts

of 1844 by Marks in which he lays out his entire theory of alienation so if people want

to go hear that theory and that text I'll link it in the show next to this episode to

get a fuller view of the Marks' concept of alienation but today we're going to be talking

about the intertwining of that concept of alienation with race and today we have on Eve and

Ren would you both like to introduce yourselves before we dive into the question?

Yes, thanks so much for having us back. I'm excited to be here. I'm really excited to

talk about this racing alienation piece. Again I'm Eve and we're with Unity and Struggle

this is a small anti-state communist collective and we're doing this long term study on race

and capitalism so this is just one part of that so thanks again for having us here.

Hi I'm Ren. This is my first time on RevLaf Radio. Thanks for having me and yes also excited

to talk about racing alienation. I feel like these questions are very essential to the

organizing review. Awesome to have you on for the first time Ren and yet alienation is one

of those topics that for whatever you may think about it or whatever you know your

critique you may have of it is really really good at sort of connecting with people that might

not be steeped in theory. So regular working class people when you sort of articulate the theory

of alienation they sort of intuitively relate to it and so for recruiting and sort of meeting

people where they are I find focusing on alienation to be really helpful so intertwining that with race

and expanding it I think will be even more helpful. So with that said let's go ahead and dive

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