E238 - The Renegade Century w/ Mike Macnair

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Andy are joined by Mike Macnair, member of the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, columnist at Weekly Worker and author of Revolutionary Strategy (2008) and many other works.

We discuss the legacy of Marxist political movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, the role of the party, the importance of patience and republicanism to the working class struggle and what might be salvaged from the thought of great historical Marxists including... the renegade Kautsky.

This is part I of an extended discussion on theory and history. To hear the paywalled fireworks, become a patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada

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Transcript

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0:16.4	Hello everybody and welcome to the Antifada. By my lights this is episode 239 but there may be more maybe less depending
0:24.9	We are here today Andy and I with a very very special guest we'd like to welcome to the program Mike McNair, a member of the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain, a Marxist
0:29.8	theorist, a commentator at the weekly worker and the author of Revolutionary a has been instrumental on the recent revival of Marxist Republicanism, influencing, at least in the
0:46.3	United States, members of the DSA, especially the Marxist Unity Group.
0:51.5	We thought it would be great to bring Mike on the show to discuss
0:54.4	his theoretical and historical works and talk about the ways that might be
0:58.0	applied today. So before I welcome Mike once more I want to say thank you to
1:02.4	Donald Parkinson who put the two of us in touch. So thanks Donald.
1:06.4	Mike welcome to the show how are you? I'm fine and you? Very well thanks. I'm into my second month of unemployment and it is wonderful.
1:16.0	How about you, Andy?
1:18.0	Oh, I'm doing great.
1:20.0	I'm just writing my book, podcasting.
1:22.0	Living the dream we are going to have a nice
1:27.2	discussion about revolutionary strategy in the first part of the show and then we'll go
1:31.0	into a bonus section. Before that, if you're a patron of the
1:36.9	Antifada, by the time this episode comes out, there will be a text post in there with the description and the site and the time of our big
1:46.7	meetup that we're having in February. So February 24th, go check that out and we're looking forward to seeing many many New York-based and surrounding area people very very soon
1:58.6	And real quick if you subscribe and you want that book if you subscribe at the annual $10 a month level you got to send me
2:06.8	your mailing address for that.
2:08.8	I saw some people signed up, some people sent the mailing address, some people didn't.
2:12.0	So just remember to send that to me on
2:13.8	Patreon and I will send it out to you at the end of the month.
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