This week we continue reading Chapter Three: ‘The Revolutionary Strategy of the Centre’. We are joined by Lexi of Swampside Chats, Sophie of Trans Trans Revolution, and C. Derick Varn of Symptomatic Redness.

Some of the panel get outraged by my scab stories.

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This week we start Chapter Three: ‘The Revolutionary Strategy of the Centre’ which deals with the strategy pursued by the German Social Democratic Party, or the SPD. The SPD was the most successful socialist revolutionary party in a major western power to this date, right up till it met with disaster by backing the German state in the WW1.

We are joined by Lexi of Swampside Chats, Sophie of Trans Trans Revolution, and C. Derick Varn of Symptomatic Redness.

We continue with our reading of the second chapter - ‘Reform Coalition or Mass Strike’’ with panel stalwarts Lexi, and Grant of Swampside Chats. We give the Mass Strike strategy espoused by Rosa Luxembourg et al a thorough hauling over the coals.

We delve into the 2st chapter - ‘Reform Coalition or Mass Strike’ with panel stalwarts Lexi, and Grant of Swampside Chats.

We pick apart exactly how MacNair lays out the 'Marxist Left', and we critique the three main strands: Centre Stragegy of Patience, Coalitionism, and the General Strike

We continue on our journey through the 1st chapter - ‘Marxism as a Political Strategy’ of Mike MacNairs 'Revolutionary Strategy' with Lexi, Sophie, and Grant. It all gets quite heated as I call 'Occupy' an premature ejaculant...

Today we continue our discussion of the 1st chapter - ‘Marxism as a Political Strategy’ of Mike MacNair's 'Revolutionary Strategy' book. This chapter lays out the traditional political strategy as laid out by Marx & Engels and refined by Bebel, Liebknecht and Kautsky.

Today we continue our reading of ‘Revolutionary Strategy - Marxism and the Challenge of Left Unity’ and grapple with the 1st chapter - ‘Marxism as a Political Strategy’ which lays out the traditional political strategy as laid out by Marx & Engels and refined by Kautsky.

Panelists:

Lexi & Donald - Swampside Chats

C Derick Varn - Symptomatic Redness

Emanuel - En Forlorad Sak

Ian Szabo

‘Revolutionary Strategy - Marxism and the challenge of left unity’ was a book written by Mike MacNair in 2008 in which he analysed the history of the 20th century from a Marxist perspective to see what strategic learnings could be gleaned. In this reading group we hope to tease out what they are and what we think of them.

In this first episode, we introduce the participants and discuss the introduction to the book.

The panelists are:

Sophia - Trans Trans Revolution

Lexi, Rosa, Donald - Swampside Chats

Derek - Symptomatic Redness

Ian Szabo

This week we welcome Mike MacNair to the show. Mike is a long time political activist, author and Tutor in Law at St Hugh's College. He is also a regular contributor to the Weekly Worker newspaper. Today we discuss Mikes' seminal work: ‘Revolutionary Strategy: Marxism and the challenge of left Unity’. We talk about the history of the 20th century and how, as Marxists, we can hope to learn from its failures. We will be studying this book as part of our upcoming Reading Group series, so get yourself a copy - it’s an amazing book.

You can buy it here:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/mike-macnair/revolutionary-strategy/paperback/product-6225135.html

And you can check out the Weekly Worker here:

https://weeklyworker.co.uk/