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Apr 2022
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[Originally released Mar 2018]

J. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and works as casualized contract faculty at York University where he received his PhD in philosophy. He blogs regularly at MLM Mayhem and is the author of The Communist Necessity, Continuity and Rupture, and Austerity Apparatus.

Josh joins Brett to discuss Maoism, The Enlightenment, Post-Modernism, the science of Marxism, and much more!

Find JMP on twitter @MLM_Mayhem
But his books here: https://www.leftwingbooks.net/book/content/communist-necessity

and here: http://www.zero-books.net/authors/joshua-r-moufawad-paul

Outro Music: "Market Made Murder" by Sims ft. Toki Wright and Mike Mictlan , off the album "Lights Out Paris"


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