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Guerrilla History

Archiving Arghiri Emmanuel's Works w/ The Arghiri Emmanuel Association

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this terrific Sources and Methods episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Torkil Lauesen, Nemanja Lukić from the Anti-Imperialist Network, Immanuel Ness, and Joseph Mullen (whom you may remember from our episode with The Cadre Journal, which has since merged with Anti-Imperialist Network), who are members of the newly formed Arghiri Emmanuel Association!  We discuss the life of the legendary theorist of Unequal Exchange, his theory, as well as the Association's efforts to archive his works.  A fantastic conversation on some incredibly important work being done!  Be sure to check out the Arghiri Emmanuel Digital Archive.

Torkil Lauesen is a longtime anti-imperialist activist and writer living in Denmark. From 1970 to 1989, he was a full-time member of a communist anti-imperialist group, supporting Third World liberation movements by both legal and illegal means.  He has been a multiple time guest on Rev Left and Guerrilla History discussing his books The Principle Contradiction and Riding the Wave: Sweden's Integration into the Imperialist  World Order.

Nemanja Lukić is a Yugoslav anti-imperialist activist who runs the Anti-Imperialist Network website. You can also follow Anti-Imp Net on twitter @antiimpnet.

Immanuel Ness  is  Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg.  He is the author or editor of numerous works including Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism.  You can follow Manny on twitter @ImmanuelNess.

Joseph Mullen is a student activist who was a member of the Cadre Journal, which has since been merged with Anti-Imperialist Network.  He runs unequalexchange.org/.  You can follow Anti-Imperialist Network  - North America on twitter @antiimpnetna.

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0:00.0

You remember Den Van Boo?

0:09.0

No!

0:10.0

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

0:14.0

They didn't have anything but a rank.

0:17.0

The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.

0:22.9

But they put some guerrilla action on.

0:36.7

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.

1:11.1

I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckamacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? Doing great, Henry. It's wonderful to be with you. Yeah, always nice to see you too. I know you and I recorded yesterday, but, you know, can never be soon enough to see you again. We are also joined, as usual by Brett O'Shea, who of course is host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing? I'm doing very well. Thank you. Nice to see you as always. Now, we have literally and figuratively a full house today with many, many guests.

1:16.6

But before we introduce the topic and the guests and what series of guerrilla history this

1:22.8

will be going under, I just want to remind the listeners that you can help support the show and allow us to

1:29.1

continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history,

1:33.9

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1:41.3

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1:47.1

That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A-U-Skore pod.

1:51.6

This episode is going to be part of our ongoing sources and methods kind of series

1:56.3

that we have going within the show.

1:58.1

And as usual, when we have sources and methods episodes, I'm going

2:01.7

to turn it to Adnan briefly to remind the listeners of what this series is all about.

2:06.7

Yeah, great. Sources and methods for guerrilla historians, you know, this is a podcast dedicated

2:12.9

to the resource of history for contemporary struggles for justice and against empire and against

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capitalism.

2:22.7

So sometimes it's useful to give people more of a texture of how to do history and what those

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