Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio. On today's episode, we have the one and only

Hakeem. Many of you might know him from YouTube on the show to discuss a plethora of topics. We recorded

this the day after September 11th and Hakeem is obviously an Iraqi

Marxist, and so we opened the discussion with a sort of prolonged discussion of 9-11.

Its impacts in America and Iraq, how it shaped his politics, impacted his life and his family,

incredibly harrowing, and, you know, fascinating to get that

perspective, which in the American media, you almost never, ever get that perspective from the

victims of U.S. imperialism. If there's ever even a critique of it, it's framed in terms of

the blood and treasure that America lost, and I think that is chauvinist and racist and disgusting.

So hearing voices from West Asia, the region impacted most recently by brutal and belligerent

American imperialism is crucial. But after that opening phase, we just open up the discussion.

We talk about a bunch of different topics, and at the end, we do this really fun lightning round where I toss some common objections against socialism towards Hakeem and he answers them with absolutely no prep, just freestyling off the top of his head. Really impressive and just overall a blast of an

episode. So I really hope that you enjoyed. If you haven't already, go on to YouTube, search Hakeem,

like and subscribe, show him some Rev Left Love. And without further ado, here is my discussion

with Hakeem on a plethora of topics. Enjoy. Hey there. I'm Hakein. I am an Iraqi Marxist and a physician by profession. Is there really more to add about myself?

Well, yeah, you're also a wonderful left-wing YouTuber that makes amazing content, and I've

been a fan of your stuff for, you know, a very long time, and this is sort of an overdue

collaboration, so I'm really honored and pleased to have you on the show.

You're very kind.

I'm actually a very big fan of yours myself, and that's why I'm even somewhat possibly more excited just to be having this conversation than anything else. But thank you. Thank you for the invitation. I'm very happy to be here.

For sure. Yeah. And, you know, as we were talking about what we wanted to discuss, we sort of pushed aside the idea that we were just going to tackle one topic and

instead just touch on many different things and just kind of keep it loosely structured and organic,

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