 Greetings comrades, thank you for watching our stuff and for being around. This is a brief channel update to let you know what we've been doing for these first few months that we've been around, what our plans are for the next few months and then tell you about some ideas we have that we'd like your input on. As you know, we're currently finishing off our first series on Marxist ideas about human development, freedom, alienation and communism. We hope to have that one done very soon. We started with Marxist ideas, rather than those of, say, important later Marxists and other socialists, for three reasons. First, Marxist ideas are absolutely vital to understanding and changing the world we live in. Second, these ideas are sometimes debated, but outside of academia at least are not well understood. This is especially the case for Marxist ideas about human development and freedom. Thirdly, there's no really good, short and accessible introductory stuff on these aspects of Marxist thought on YouTube, at least not that we could find. There's some commentary, lots of longer videos and there are good Marxist discussions on a number of different things and topics, but there are very few really good introductory videos that explain his basic ideas from the ground up. The exceptions to this are some of the people who explain his political economy were doing some really good work. But Marx worked and wrote on many other ideas about human life, society and history as well, so that's what we'll be looking into in our first two series or so. For the next few months, we plan to do three things. First, we're planning one or two response videos to some popular misconceptions about Marx that are out there on YouTube. Second, we're planning a couple of live streams with our friends. And thirdly, we have one or two ideas for specials we'd like to do, but we want to keep those a secret for now. After that, we're going to start a new series looking at Marxist views on the theory of praxis, history and social change, including his views on the transition to communism. But after that again, we have a bunch of ideas for things we could do and we'd like to hear what you think about them. What do you find interesting? What do you think it's important to know more about? And so on. Here are our ideas. Our first idea is a series on different strands of Marxism, things like Orthodox Second International Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskism, Maoism, Council Communism, Autonomism and so on. These would be a kind of bird's-eye view episodes, each particular strand of Marxism getting one or two episodes each. Our second idea is a broader series that covers various strands of socialism, including different strands of Marxism, but also things like syndicalism, anarchism and so on as well. Our third idea is discussions of particular ideas and debates within the socialist tradition, things like party organization, 21st century socialism, democratic confederalism, prefigurative politics, different union structures, the Green New Deal and so on. Our fourth idea is a series on important Marxist thinkers, ones that were historically important and influential, ones that are particularly important and influential today, and also on somewhat neglected thinkers that we think deserve more attention and that we feel we should know and talk more about. Our fifth idea is a series of interviews with various academics on research tied to different kinds of socialism. This would likely be people you don't know of or don't know much about, but who are working on things like ideology critique, theories of exploitation, prefigurative politics, the history of socialist ideas and socialist revolutions and so on. We can do more than one of those, and we probably will, but what do you think? Do any of these ideas sound particularly good to you? Which would you find most interesting? Which do you think it would be most important to have out on YouTube? Are there any other things you'd like to see us do? Let us know in the comments.