What was your idea behind this video about the supermarket of ideas and where how did you get to a critique of Leninism from that?

So when I started university in the end of 2016, I, one of the first things I did was try and find the local leftists and try and get involved.

I'm pretty much the only group active at my university,

the University of Sussex in England,

was the Marxist society as an arm of the international Marxist tendency which are a essentially the

inheritors of the militants from the 70s, a very big Trotskyist group.

Very big and for people that don't know, we had mentioned that they had done entryism into the

Labor Party, but there were famously entire city councils like

Liverpool where they were essentially run by this by these Trotskyists and

extremely extremely or at least relatively extremely militant in defense of not just

public provision but also of the working class as the sort of labor, first labor government, so then the Thatcher government

really, really pulls out the big guns to break the back of the organized working class.

Yeah, no, they really, they had a lot of success in their time, like they were a big deal. But then they split into two different groups, the militant, based on the question of do we want to do entry is the model we want to make our own party and the IMT were the bigger one that stuck with entryism.

And yeah, so I don't know if anyone knows any of the names, Alan Woods. I've heard the name. Yeah, he's the head of the empty right now. He's done some books and stuff.

So yeah, that was the org, basically the only org active on my campus. I got involved. I didn't really know anything about this at the time. I was still very I was very firm in my understanding of leftism and

master's at the time, again not nearly as much as I am now.

I would have still called myself a Leninist back then.

I never called myself a Trotskyist, but I trot that up to just like, you know, just a disagreement, but I still vaguely agree with the goals of socialism and blah blah, so I'm happy to get involved and help out and all that.

And I did really get involved. I was on the committee of the society when the year that I joined.

And yeah, I got I went to the the organizational conferences held in London and stuff like that and other events and yeah I became like a paying member.

You know I really threw myself at it. But basically over the years and this again coincides with what I referred to in the first part of the podcast about this kind of turning point in my education where I departed from

London specifically and moved towards a more anti-work position.

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