National Liberation Struggles & the Agrarian Question w/ Max Ajl

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on a good comrade of ours, Max Ajl (much overdue, we might add)! Here, we get a primer on the agrarian question and discuss its importance to national liberation struggles globally! Max is the perfect guest for this conversation, and we know you'll get a lot out of it.

Max Ajl is is an associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, a researcher on decolonization, post-colonial planning, Arab dependency theory and food sovereignty at Ghent University, and the author of the outstanding A People's Green New Deal. You can follow Max on twitter @maxajl.

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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.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:23.0	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:36.6	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.
1:16.7	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? Hi, Henry. I'm great. It's wonderful to be with you. Yeah, it's nice to see you as well. also joined by our other co-host, Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing? I'm doing well. Happy to be here. Yeah, happy to see both of you again. I know we just recorded two days ago, but I'm always really happy when we're all able to be here for an episode. We're also joined by an excellent guest to talk about a topic that I've actually been wanting to talk about for a while.
1:28.4	We're joined by Max Ayle, who is an associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and is a postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wanganagan University,
1:30.5	which I probably mispronounced, but that's okay.
1:31.6	Hello, Max.
1:33.5	It's been a while since I've gotten to talk to you.
1:39.2	I know Brett also has an episode with you on Rev Left about your book, People's Green New Deal.
1:41.1	It's really nice to have you on the program.
1:44.0	It's fantastic to be on the program also. And just a small
1:45.3	clarification is that I'm now at Ghent University in Belgium. Oh, congratulations for the,
1:51.4	you know, with the move. So the topic for today is the agrarian question and its importance to
1:59.6	national liberation struggles. And of course, we've its importance to national liberation struggles.
2:00.9	And of course, we've talked about various national liberation struggles on the show before,
2:04.7	but we have not really touched on the agrarian question much in general or in regards to these national liberation struggles.
2:12.0	So as we get into the conversation, I think the first thing that we need to do, just in brief,
2:17.1	because we do plan on
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