Hello and

welcome to an interview with professor of sociology at the University of Kent

Frank Farady you're also a renowned author and have written many great books and it's a pleasure to have you on the show.

Nice to talk to you.

So I'm going to address the elephant in the room first and foremost because people who might look up your name on Wikipedia might see that you are a former member of the international socialists.

You formed the revolutionary Communist Group that then you formed the Revolutionary Communist

Tendency which was refounded as the Revolutionary Communist Party.

It's even a mouthful to explain. So clearly you've played a significant role in

communist groups, but it seems like you've moved away from this. How much do your politics today resemble those of your past?

And if you have changed your mind over time,

what made you move away from them, I suppose?

Well, you know we're talking about a time which was about 50 years ago half a century it's a long time.

Most of your listeners have not lived 50 years

or anything near it.

And the world has changed quite considerably

during that time.

I mean, I'm the product of the radical 1960s which I really

enjoyed at a great time in the 60s and it was a nice feeling to believe that

anything is possible but then since that time the world has

changed and you know invariably as the world changes sort of so the issues that are

really important also altered and not like what they were in the previous era.

And I think what has happened is this, I don't think I've changed all that much.

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