Empire and the Deep State - American Exception w/ Aaron Good

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this fascinating and fun episode, Aaron Good comes on the show to discuss his book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. This is a great conversation which focuses on Aaron's conceptualizing of exceptionism and how the American Empire works. This topic is critical for us, as the concept of "the Deep State" has been distorted by the right-wing, and obscures the workings of the actual Deep State here within the belly of the beast.

Aaron Good has a PhD in Political Science from Temple University. His dissertation, “American Exception: Hegemony and the Tripartite State,” examined the state, elite criminality, and US hegemony. His book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State is available from Skyhorse Publishers, and he has a website and podcast of the same name which can be found at https://americanexception.com/. Aaron can be followed on twitter @Aaron_Good_.

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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, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.2	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.
0:55.3	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing well. It's great to be with you. Of course, it's great to see you as well. And 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 great. It's been very excited to have this conversation with Aaron on this wonderful book. Yeah, absolutely. We have a great guest and a great conversation coming up. But before I
1:11.4	introduce the guest, I just want to remind the listeners that you can help support the show
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1:51.3	Pod. As Brett said, we have a great guest today and a great conversation coming up. We have
1:57.3	Aaron Good, who is a political scientist who has a new book out, which is what we're
2:04.3	going to be talking about, American Exception, Empire and the Deep State. Hello, Aaron. It's nice to have you
2:10.1	on the show. And it's great to be talking about this work with you. Yeah, thanks, Henry. It's
2:15.1	great to be here. So in way of getting into the conversation,
2:19.1	your book is excellent, by the way, and I want to open up with what's going to seem like a really
2:23.5	broad question because it's basically going to ask you to underline your whole thesis of the book.
2:28.6	But, you know, just do a cursory overview of that, and then we're going to dive in and take it a
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