Jul 14, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min · 10 segments
Communism has never been more popular than now—but millions of people are asking what we should be doing. Meanwhile, a revolution is unfolding before our eyes in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. ✊Join…
Yeah.
There's a y- tremendous amount of radicalization going on in society today.
Um, we're seeing sections of the population are moving to the left.
The class struggle is intensifying.
I mean, almost every week it seems like-
Mm-hmm
...
the US state apparatus is killing, uh, people, um, and, and repressing people.
And, um, and it does raise very, very important questions.
How can the population, how can the working class win? Um, and I think, you know, sometimes politics maybe is actually more complicated than it looks.
Um, it, it, it, we, we, we can't just win because we have righteous emotion or we have this fervor, you know, righteous anger.
We actually have to think about what we're doing.
The movement has to, to contemplate what it's gonna do and what it needs to do in order to win.
Absolutely.
It's a question of method.
Like, we often feel when we're having this strategic debate with other elements on the left, to the extent that there is a debate happening, that we're speaking a different language.
Like, we're trying to get across a certain logic, a certain political logic about how to approach these questions.
And so there is a thread that we'll run through, I think, this whole discussion.
Like, there's, there's a method we're trying to get at.
Class independence is part of it.
But basically, if you have a certain goal, what way of operating gets you on a path to being able to achieve that goal, is what we're trying to get at.
And Lenin was the master of explaining this and helping people to wrap their heads around it, despite a, a real challenge of...
Like, I'll, I'll say Bolshevism doesn't come, like, naturally to most people.
Yeah.
There's a y- tremendous amount of radicalization going on in society today.
Um, we're seeing sections of the population are moving to the left.
The class struggle is intensifying.
I mean, almost every week it seems like-
Mm-hmm
...
the US state apparatus is killing, uh, people, um, and, and repressing people.
And, um, and it does raise very, very important questions.
How can the population, how can the working class win? Um, and I think, you know, sometimes politics maybe is actually more complicated than it looks.
Um, it, it, it, we, we, we can't just win because we have righteous emotion or we have this fervor, you know, righteous anger.
We actually have to think about what we're doing.
The movement has to, to contemplate what it's gonna do and what it needs to do in order to win.
Absolutely.
It's a question of method.
Like, we often feel when we're having this strategic debate with other elements on the left, to the extent that there is a debate happening, that we're speaking a different language.
Like, we're trying to get across a certain logic, a certain political logic about how to approach these questions.
And so there is a thread that we'll run through, I think, this whole discussion.
Like, there's, there's a method we're trying to get at.
Class independence is part of it.
But basically, if you have a certain goal, what way of operating gets you on a path to being able to achieve that goal, is what we're trying to get at.
And Lenin was the master of explaining this and helping people to wrap their heads around it, despite a, a real challenge of...
Like, I'll, I'll say Bolshevism doesn't come, like, naturally to most people.
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