Multipolarity w/ Ben Norton

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this incredibly fun episode, we talk with Ben Norton about multipolarity, from both theoretical and real-world analytical lenses. Who better to discuss the topic of multipolarity with us than Mr. Multipolarista himself? The conversation itself was excellent, as is Ben's work more generally. If you don't already check out Multipolarista's content regularly, this is your notice to do so!

Ben Norton is a journalist, writer, and filmmaker based in Nicaragua, and is the founder of https://multipolarista.com/. You can also see his work on his personal website https://bennorton.com/ and on Twitter @BenjaminNorton.

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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.
0:39.2	I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki,
0:44.4	joined by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? Hi, Henry. I'm
0:49.5	doing great. It's a pleasure to be with you. Absolutely. It's always nice to see you as well.
0:55.4	And also joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing today? I'm doing good. Very excited to be able to talk with Ben today. Absolutely. As you mentioned, we have an excellent guest. And today we have Ben Norton, who is, of course, the founder and I guess
1:13.7	lead editor of Multipolarista. We wanted to have a discussion and intelligence briefing about
1:19.2	multipolarity. And we figured who better to bring on than Mr. Multipolarista himself. So we've done just
1:25.3	that and brought Ben on. Hello, Ben. It's nice to have you on the show.
1:28.5	Glad to be here. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. So as I mentioned, we were thinking about having a
1:33.6	discussion and actually we've been planning it for quite some time now to talk about multipolarity.
1:39.2	And we figured why not bring on you to talk about multipolarity.
1:44.3	You focus on a lot of contemporary events and thinking of how this may fit into an upcoming
1:48.7	multipolar world.
1:50.1	So as we start, perhaps you would be able to lay out what is the concept of multipolarity
1:56.4	for the listeners.
1:57.2	That way we have at least a theoretical understanding of the concept before we branch into how this fits into the world that we're living in right now. Yeah, well, it's pretty
2:05.9	simple. I mean, the name pretty much explains itself. It's multiple poles of power. And we need to
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