Islam, the Commons, and (Democratic) Socialism w/ Ali Al-Assam
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
In this wonderful crossover episode between Guerrilla History and The Majlis, we bring on Dr. Ali Al-Assam to discuss the legendary Iraqi Communist leader Ibrahim Allawi's work Al-Mushtarak (The Commons), which Ali has just translated an edited edition in English, available from Iskra Books! This conversation covers the life and work of Allawi, his book Al-Mushtarak, and the fascinating fusion of Islamic culture and socialist politics contained within. Really a great discussion, you're going to want to check this out (and pick up the book!).
Ali Al-Assam is founder and Secretary of NewsSocial Cooperative and member of the Friends of Socialist China - Britain Committee. Be sure to check out the Mushtarek platform and the NewsSocial Cooperative. You can follow Ali on twitter @aliassam, and get the book Reading In Al-Mushtarak from Iskra Books.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't remember Den Van 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. |
| 0:27.7 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcasts that acts as a reconnaissance report of global |
| 0:33.2 | proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your |
| 0:39.2 | co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and |
| 0:45.0 | director of the School of Religion at Queen's University on Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you |
| 0:49.6 | doing today? I'm doing well, Henry. It's good to be with you. Of course. Nice to see you as always. We have a |
| 0:56.9 | terrific guest that's going to be joining us today. But before I introduce the guest, I would |
| 1:01.4 | like to announce two things. One, this episode is an episode in conjunction with the |
| 1:06.0 | modulus, which listeners will be familiar is the podcast that you host as well, Adnan. |
| 1:11.4 | It's your other podcasts that you do, which I'm sure we'll talk about more later in the closing bits, |
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| 1:26.2 | and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A history. And you can keep up to date with everything that Adnan and I are doing by following us on Twitter at Gorilla underscore Pod. That's G-U-E-R-R-L-A-U-Pod. As I mentioned, we have a terrific guest today, |
| 1:49.4 | and we're going to be talking about a fascinating new book. We're joined by Dr. Ali al-Assam, |
| 1:54.6 | managing, sorry, founder and secretary of new social cooperative and member of the Friends of |
| 2:00.0 | Socialist China, Britain |
| 2:01.1 | Committee. |
| 2:02.1 | Hello, Ali. |
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