How the Red was Won

Ep 49: Intro to R Palme Dutt’s Fascism and Social Revolution

How the Red was Won

Show Notes

This was originally recorded and released to Patreon in July 2024. I’ve finally caught up enough to drop it to the main feed. It’s a fairly dense book, and will be coming out in bite sized pieces.

*note* this was recorded on my old set up, and I wasn’t able to re-edit it

Read along here:

https://www.marxists.org/archive//dutt/1935/fascism-social-revolution-3.pdf

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