Hello and welcome to

Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.

I'm Jeremy Gilbert. I'm here as always with my good friend Nadia Idol.

Hello.

And my other good friend, Keir Milburn.

Hello.

Today we are going to be talking about the topic of political commitment.

Now, Keir, this is one you've been wanting us to talk about for quite a while.

So why don't you tell us why?

Yeah, it has been in the back of my mind for a while.

Partly just I think it's an interesting, another angle onto some debates

that we've just gone over and over from different angles here,

such as political commitment

understood as some sort of political view of the world that you maintain through ebbs

and flows, that sort of thing.

Relevant at the moment, because many people might be going through an ebb in their political

commitment, not least because we saw the US presidential elections, President Trump got elected.

Reaction in the US doesn't seem as the first time, the sort of shock and then, oh, let's all

do the resistance and go on marches and stuff. There's an element of resignation in there, perhaps,

a little bit. And so it might be useful to think about this political commitment through the

ebbs and flows in that sort of sense. There's also a sort of debate going on in the UK about whether

the left should form a political party or join the Greens or something like that. And so some

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