North Korea & Industrial Agriculture w/ Zhun Xu
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back our great friend and comrade Zhun Xu, whom you may remember from our episode Sanctions Against China & Their Political Economy from our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this episode, we discuss Zhun terrific new article in Monthly Review, Industrial Agriculture: Lessons from North Korea! This conversation was incredibly generative, and will certainly be of great benefit to you whether you are someone who studies agricultural systems, the DPRK, or none of the above. Stay tuned, Zhun will appear on the show again VERY soon for another great topic and discussion...
Zhun Xu is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is on the editorial boards of Science and Society and the Journal of Labor and Society. His recent book is From Commune to Capitalism: How China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty.
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| 0:00.0 | You remember Den Bamboo? |
| 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 prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:28.4 | 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. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki. |
| 0:41.6 | Unfortunately not joined by my other usual co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, who of course |
| 0:46.7 | is a historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:51.6 | One of the downfalls of having an academic as your co-host is that, you know, |
| 0:55.3 | he has to do things like dissertation meetings, which happen to be at the same time as our recordings |
| 1:00.7 | periodically. But Adnan will be back for the next conversation. Do not fear this is going to be |
| 1:07.6 | hopefully the last one for a while that I will be running solo on alongside our guest. |
| 1:12.7 | We have a terrific and returning guest today with about a really excellent article, |
| 1:18.4 | which we've been talking off the record for about 50 minutes at this point, listeners. |
| 1:24.1 | But before I introduce the guest and the article, I would like to remind you listeners |
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| 1:56.4 | Now, as I said, we have an excellent and returning guest. We have Jun Xu, who is an associate professor at John Jay College and the Graduate Center |
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