The British Marxist Historians w/ Harvey J. Kaye
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Guerrilla History is with Professor Harvey J. Kaye about his book The British Marxist Historians, the first and most complete study of the work of the British Marxist intellectuals Maurice Dobb, Rodney Hilton, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, and E.P. Thompson, and has just gotten released as a new edition from Zer0 Books. A fascinating conversation about a fascinating group of characters!
Harvey J. Kaye is Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. In addition to The British Marxist Historians, he written numerous other books including Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, and The Fight for the Four Freedoms. He can be followed on twitter @harveyjkaye
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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. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki,, only joined by one of my co-hosts today. We have Professor Adnan Hussein, |
| 0:44.3 | historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, |
| 0:48.6 | Adnan, long time no see. Hi, Henry. It's good to be back with you yet again. Today, we've done a couple of things, but it's always great to talk. |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah. The previous time that I saw it on today was about 30 minutes ago, so a little bit of an inside joke. |
| 1:03.4 | Unfortunately, we're not joined by our other usual co-host, Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. |
| 1:10.5 | But he'll be back very, |
| 1:11.9 | very soon. So do not worry, listeners. We are joined today by actually a longtime friend of Adnan's |
| 1:18.8 | and mine, Professor Harvey J.K., who I've known about for many years at this point, but I've |
| 1:25.4 | personally known since basically the start of the pandemic. So hello, Professor Harvey J.K. Welcome to guerrilla history. It's funny. Given all the, all the times we talked about, maybe we could finally get together. I would not have imagined that we would be doing a show together in which were, what, are we eight, nine, ten, how many, ten, how many hours apart are we right now? We are eight hours apart at the moment. |
| 1:46.4 | Eight hours apart, okay. |
| 1:48.0 | And yeah, thanks for having me, Henry. |
| 1:49.5 | Of course. |
| 1:50.4 | And the joke is that when the professor and I first became, you know, familiar with each |
| 1:56.0 | other, we were only about a hundred miles apart because I was at my parents' place in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Harvey J.K. |
| 2:03.5 | Is at this point a professor emeritus of democracy studies at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay. |
| 2:11.0 | But at this point, of course, I'm living in Russia. |
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