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Sep 2019
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PATREON TEASER: The Red Jacobins and the...

Chris, Kevin, Jason, & Ben
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Check out some Real Nerd Hours when Chris and Jason have a discussion about a not very well known article from an obscure Trotskyist journal written around a decade ago...
It generated a little bit of a buzz, but was mostly ignored. We think that was a mistake and we are going to tell you all about why you should care about the decisions of the 10th party congress.


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