Sweden's Integration into the Imperialist World System ft/ Torkil Lauesen [REMASTERED]

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a fully-remastered edition of a Revolutionary Left Radio episode: Riding the Wave: Sweden's Integration into the Imperialist World System" featuring Torkil Lauesen. We plan on periodically remastering some of our early episodes and re-releasing them as well, and releasing them one every month or two between our regular episodes. Stay tuned for that!

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Torkil Lauesen returns to the show, this time to discuss his newest book "Riding the Wave: Sweden's Integration into the Imperialist World Order". Pushing back against the narrative that Nordic countries like Sweden are socialist paradises who don't engage in colonialism and imperialism like other western countries, Torkil dives deep into history to deconstruct this rather naive perspective and offer a historical materialist account of Sweden's actual place in the history of colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism.

Henry Hakamaki from Guerrilla History joins Breht for the interview as well!

Check out the book here: https://www.leftwingbooks.net/book/content/riding-wave-sweden

Read more of Torkil's work here: https://anti-imperialist.net/author/lauesen/

Outro Music: "I'm the Echo" by DARKSIDE

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0:00.0	Hello, guerrilla history listeners. This is Henry, and today we're going to be doing a re-release of
0:05.9	sorts for you. This episode is actually an old revolutionary left radio episode, but we are going
0:13.4	to be testing out something that we are thinking about doing periodically as we go forward.
0:19.7	So what we are considering doing, Adnan, Brett, and myself
0:23.3	had thought that, well, on guerrilla history, we have a pretty extensive back catalog now with
0:29.1	over 100 really excellent episodes and many fabulous guests. But particularly for some of those
0:35.2	early episodes, Adnan and myself in particular didn't have the best audio equipment.
0:40.5	And so our audio quality was not always spectacular.
0:43.8	And some of the processing techniques that we were using and some of the guests that we had on also, they weren't conducive to having top top notch audio quality.
0:53.1	You may have noticed that in our more recent episodes of the show,
0:56.7	our audio quality is really exceptional. So what we thought would be interesting and useful
1:02.0	is for us to look back at our old back catalog. Back from the early days when our audio quality
1:09.2	and our processing techniques were not nearly
1:11.6	as good as they are now, and finding some of those episodes from when we didn't have as many
1:17.0	listeners either, remastering them, making them sound as good as we possibly can, and then
1:23.4	periodically releasing some of those older episodes so that our new listenership can hear
1:28.5	them and hear them in the way that they deserve to be heard.
1:32.0	Brett suggested that we test out this technique of going back and remastering some of our old
1:37.4	episodes and seeing what we can get from it with one of his revolutionary left radio episodes
1:42.0	that I also took part on.
1:44.1	This episode is titled Riding the Wave, Sweden's Integration into the Imperialist World
1:49.2	System, and features one of our favorite guests of Revolutionary Left Radio and somebody
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