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Feb 2024
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Romantic love is a weapon of capitalism ...

THE RED NATION
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TRN Podcast host Jen Marley talks with comrades Levi Harter and another comrade about the colonial origins of "romance", how "love" has been commodified, and the necessity of reclaiming love as a part of revolutionary praxis.

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