Modern China Pt. 3: The Great Leap Forward & Cultural Revolution w/ Ken Hammond

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we get into part 3 of our 4 part miniseries on modern Chinese history featuring Ken Hammond (and guest host Breht O'Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio) with an amazing discussion of The Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution!

If you haven't already listened to part 1 of the series, on the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions, or part 2 on The Chinese Revolution & Civil War, be sure to go back and check those out because we pick up right where we left off last time. With these final two episodes in the series, we enter the period where various ideological traditions diverge in their analysis of the events, but regardless of what ideological background you come from, we encourage you to listen to these and engage with the information, as we believe the information will help you deepen your own analysis regardless of your ideological position.

Ken Hammond is Professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University. He has been engaged in radical politics since his involvement in the anti-war movement at Kent State in 1968-70. Ken is also the author of the book China’s Revolution & the Quest for a Socialist Future.

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0:00.0	You wouldn't remember Din-Bu?
0:07.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a ranker.
0:17.0	The Prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:21.0	But they put some guerrilla action on me.
0:23.0	Hello and welcome to guerrilla action on me.
0:25.0	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history,
0:31.0	the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global
0:33.6	proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:38.4	I am one of your co-hosts Henry Hakimaki, unfortunately not joined by my other co-host, Professor Adnan
0:44.8	Hussein, who of course is a historian director of the School of Religion at Queens University
0:48.9	in Ontario, Canada, as he is still out of commission but he will be back for the next installment of
0:56.7	this series he has assured me so listeners do stay tuned for that. I am
1:01.9	fortunately joined by our returning guest host who has been joining me for this entire mini series thus far and again listeners if you're a long time guerrilla history listener he is not only going to be
1:14.3	familiar as being a guest host of this series but Brett O'Shea was also a co-host of guerrilla history for the first
1:20.9	three and a half years of the show's history which went up until just a couple weeks ago.
1:25.8	Hello, Brett, it's nice to have you back on the show. Of course, Brett is host of
1:29.8	Revolutionary Left Radio and the Red Menace Podcast.
1:32.3	Absolutely, love to be back.
1:34.0	Hopefully we'll make this a normal thing going forward.
1:36.8	So yeah, and a very, very excited for today's topic as always.
1:39.8	Absolutely.
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