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Guerrilla History

Surplus Populations and the Political Economy of Waste w/ Ali Kadri

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we kick off a brilliant new mini-series with our friend, Dr. Ali Kadri!  Here, we discuss surplus populations and the political economy of waste.  We always hear terrific things about our conversations with Ali, and we are sure you will similarly love this one.  Be sure to stay tuned for the next installment of this mini-series, which will be on The Future of Resistance!

Ali Kadri is an esteemed Professor at various institutions around the world, as well as the author of many important books including Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of EncroachmentThe Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction, and The Unmaking of Arab Socialism.  

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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.

0:14.0

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.

0:28.7

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.

0:39.1

I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckmacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan

0:44.8

Hussein, who of course is historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens

0:48.7

University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing?

0:52.9

I'm doing well. It's really wonderful to be with you, Henry.

0:55.9

Yeah, it's nice to be back with you. I know that we were on your show relatively recently,

1:00.3

but it's been a while that since we've had a regular guerrilla history recording, as we both

1:04.8

had a lot of things going on over the summer, including I was in Crimea and the sanctions there,

1:09.9

if I thought the sanctions where I live in Russia

1:12.8

currently were bad, they're much worse there. So it was difficult to get things done. But I am back

1:19.5

now and we are back to getting new material for guerrilla history listeners. So listeners,

1:25.0

thank you for bearing with us during that little bit of a lean period

1:28.6

during the summer. But we're fortunate to be joined by a many time returning guests and one of our

1:35.1

most important guests. Before I reintroduce him, I just want to remind you listeners that you can

1:41.3

help support the show at patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's

1:45.7

G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. And you can follow us on social media, Twitter at

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