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What Is To Be Done? - V.I. Lenin

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🗓️ 20 April 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Red Menace Alyson and Breht discuss

What Is To Be Done? by V.I. Lenin

Full text here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

The video episode can be found on youtube at: https://youtu.be/1lRM_fsjanE

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0:00.0

And then.

0:01.0

The Hey there. My name is Allison and I'm here with my co-host Brett and you are

0:19.2

tuning in to Red Minus Podcast. This is our third episode, so if you're not familiar, a basic

0:24.8

rundown of what we do. We take a classic work of leftist theory and we try to

0:29.2

break it down and contextualize it to how it will apply today.

0:33.1

So our show is broken up into three different segments

0:35.5

in order to make that a little bit easier.

0:36.9

And the first, we just sort of summarize the text

0:39.0

and make sort of an outline of the argument

0:41.0

that the author makes.

0:42.2

In the second, we do a bit of discussion back and forth on it

0:44.7

with questions that we've prepared for each other.

0:46.6

And then in the third, we take some time to try to show

0:48.8

how that text can be applied now

0:50.4

to the kind of organizing that we're doing today.

0:53.0

Absolutely, and if you want to follow us on social media, you can follow us at red

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0:59.9

You can also support the show at patreon.com forward slash the red menace and since we have

1:05.9

three episodes now after this one we really want the patreon to be a place

1:10.7

where people who still have questions of any of the text that we cover

1:13.8

where they can go and ask those questions and will reply to it.

1:17.0

And moreover, next month we're looking to expand that Patreon Q&A to include live calls.

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