China, and the "Western Left" w/ Immanuel Ness (IB Part 2)

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We have another fun Intelligence Briefing this time, with a special guest! For this conversation that takes a look at China, and once again takes aim at the "Western Left", we bring back our good friend and comrade Professor Immanuel Ness. Manny is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and a Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. His latest book is Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South, which is available from Pluto Press: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343594/organizing-insurgency/. You can follow him on twitter @ImmanuelNess.

Guerrilla History- Intelligence Briefings will be roughly a twice monthly series of shorter, more informal discussions between the hosts about topics of their choice. Patrons at the Comrade tier and above will have access to all Intelligence Briefings.

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter @guerrilla_pod. Your contributions make the show possible to continue and succeed! Please encourage your comrades to join us, which will help our show grow.

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter at @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter at @Red_Menace_Pod. You can find and support these shows by visiting https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You don't remember Den Ben-Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:28.5	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.
0:39.7	This is a guerrilla history intelligence briefing for those of you who don't know or are
0:44.1	unaware. Intelligence briefings are roughly twice monthly, a little bit shorter, a little bit
0:49.4	less formal episodes that we do, where roughly half of them are early access on Patreon and the other
0:55.7	half are Patreon exclusives. This one is going to be an early access episode and we've got a fan
1:01.8	favorite returning for the episode today. So we'll talk about that in just a second. I'm your host,
1:07.4	Henry Huckimacki, and I'm joined as always by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan
1:11.1	Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing well, Henry. It's great to be with you. Yeah, it's great to see you too. I feel like it's been a little while since we've seen each other, but it hasn't been that long.
1:08.8	And also joined as usual, but not
1:29.4	recently by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast.
1:36.0	It's the return of Brett, and we are so happy to see you on the call today, Brett. How are you doing?
1:41.9	Yeah, I'm doing good. It's been a while, but I'm definitely happy to be back in the swing of things. I'm looking forward to this conversation. Absolutely. It's, it's felt a little bit lonely without having you here, but we're very grateful that that we have you here today, and we'll be talking again in just a couple days, actually. Yeah. And today, we're joined by a special guest who, as I mentioned a little bit earlier, is the fan favorite.
2:04.1	Every time we have an episode with him, the response is overwhelmingly positive.
2:08.6	We get people writing to us from all over saying that they appreciate the analysis that he brings to the show.
2:14.3	It's Professor Emmanuel Ness, or Manny, as we call him. Mani is a professor of political
2:20.2	science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and is a visiting professor
2:24.3	at the University of Johannesburg, author of many, many books, including one of our episodes
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Henry, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Henry and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.