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Jun 2021
1h 24m

The Imperialist Chain, Decolonization, a...

REVOLUTIONARY LEFT RADIO
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In this collaboration with Faith and Capital, Breht is interviewed on a wide range of subjects, including whether or not there is a contradiction between spirituality and Marxist materialism, the importance of decolonization in the fight for communism, marxism-leninism-maoism, the wages and pathology of whiteness, the material benefits of imperialism for the labor aristocracy, the importance of love on the revolutionary left, and much, much more! Follow Faith and Capital on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/FaithAndCapital

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Outro Music: "Off You" by Big Thief (The Breeders)

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