From Alpha To Omega

This week we welcome Lawrence Parker to the show to discuss the Monty Johnstone 1967 pamphlet ‘Marx and Engels and the Concept of the Party’. We delve deep into the history of the Communist League, the 1st and 2nd Internationals, and Engels thoughts on a british labour party and the US scene.

You can find the pamphlet here:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/johnstone/1967/xx/me-party.htm

We have some more terrible abuse of the Trot-sect mania today as we eventually finish Chapter 8: ’Political Consciousness’. Hail to the death of the chapter which never ends.

Panelists:

Kyle - General Intellect Unit
Lexi Dog Robot - Swampside Chats
Pouya - Lord of the Serfs
Sophie - Section 31 Commander

We battle through the Trot-smorgasbord that is the end of Chapter 8: ’Political Consciousness’. Sophie puts Lexi on the leash....

Panelists:

Kyle - General Intellect Unit

Lexi Dog Robot - Swampside Chats

Pouya - Machine nose expert

Sophie - Trans Trans Revolution

We continue our march through Chapter 8: ’Political Consciousness’ and discuss why we shouldn’t just do what the Russians did. Word.

Panelists:

C Derick Varn - Symptomatic Redness
Kyle Thompson - General Intellect Unit
Lexi Dog Robot - Swampside Chats
Pouya - Philosopher of Science
Sophie - Trans Trans Revolution

This week we continue our mega-intense reading of Chapter 8: ’Political Consciousness’ and riff poetical on historical materialism and markov chains.

The panelists are:
C Derick Varn - Symptomatic Redness
Kyle - General Intellect Unit
Lexi Dog Robot - Swampside Chats
Pouya - Lord of the Serfs
Sophia - Trans Trans Revolution

On the latest patreon only episode we discuss the political economy of the Soviet Union and what we can learn from the failures of the Russian revolution with Jack Conrad of the Weekly Worker.

This week we read more of Chapter 8: 'Political Consciousness' talk about the importance of a functioning international and go in hard on Lenin’s strategic errors.

The panelists are:

Kyle - General Intellect Unit

Lexi - Swampside Chats

Pouya - Lord of the Serfs

This week we continue with Chapter 8: ’Political Consciousness’ and get into the weeds on the role of the international and critique Lenin’s revolutionary strategy.

The panelists are:

Kyle - General Intellect Unit

Lexi - Swampside Chats

Pouya - Lord of the Serfs

This week we continue with Chapter 8: ’Political Consciousness’ and riff some more on the elusive party form.

The panelists are:

C Derick Varn - Symptomatic Redness

Kyple - General Intellect Unit

Lexi - Swampside Chats

Puoya - Machine Noise Expert

Sophie - Swampside Chats

This week we welcome James to the show, a long time listener and patron who I met recently at the CPGB Communist University this summer. We give a thorough analysis of the event, our thoughts on the talks, the people we met there, and our overall general impression. For those unaware, Mike MacNair, whose book ‘Revolutionary Strategy’ we are currently studying on the podcast, is a member of the CPGB. He gave a number of talks related to the book, and was where I got to sit down with him to talk about brexit for the recent episodes.