All right, everybody, this is Andy. I'm here on my own, but Sean should be here any moment. He is on the bus.

But I am here with Mitch Abidor, who is a historian of anarchism and the revolutionary left and he has a book out this year

the notebooks of Victor Serge in his last years of life and so we're going to talk today about Victor Serge in his last years of life. And so we're going to talk today about Victor Serge,

who this guy was, and I have always found him

to be one of the most compelling figures

in the history of revolutionary socialism and I think

today when a lot of people are discovering socialism for the first time trying to figure

out where they fit in the the story of surge in his politics is really it really resonates a lot with me and I think it'll

resonate a lot with our listeners who perhaps haven't heard of him so thanks for being here

Mitch Abidor. It's abidore why don't you tell me a little bit about

your work and how you got interested in Victor surge before we talk about his life and

and the book sure I. I'm primarily a translator and I've translated, somebody did account about a thousand documents from French, Portuguese,

Esperanto, Spanish, Italian for the Marxist Internet Archive.

Mostly though from French.

And my particular interest is like the great moments in French. And my particular interest is like the great moments in French

Revolutionary History like the Paris Commune and

1936, the popular front in May 68 but I also have a great affection for French

anarchism and so Victor Serge was somebody who like for many people who was just

kind of out there for me and then a few years ago

even more than a few I found a book of Serge's anarchist writings and so and I just absolutely fell in love with them it was in French we call it a

good food it was love at first sight and that led me to go deeper into surge.

And so that's how I ended up.

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