Longtime friend of the show, historian Aaron J. Leonard joins us to talk about his new book Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism.
It's a history of the monitoring, infiltration, and legal suppression of the Communist Party USA that begins with a very familiar-sounding "black scare" against anarchists after a high-profile assassination in 1901.
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Article on the book: https://truthout.org/articles/how-a-century-of-anti-communism-cleared-the-way-for-trumps-authoritarianism/
Video: Trump says "we took free speech away": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4VqMY8djOM
Indypendent article on Antifa: https://indypendent.org/2025/10/what-is-antifa/
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