The China Model w/ Ali Kadri
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, Ali Kadri is back for another installment of our ongoing mini-series with him! This time, a fascinating discussion on The China Model. If you missed our previous episode with him, Surplus Populations and the Political Economy of Waste, and The Future of Resistance, be sure to check that out! Also, stay tuned for more installments of this series!
Be sure to check out the conference that Ali discussed, and also be sure to follow Ali's recommendation to check out Torkil Lauesen's work, such as The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism and Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future
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 Encroachment, The 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 Booh? |
| 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. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, |
| 0:33.6 | and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Hukimaki, unfortunately not joined by my usual co-host, Professor Adnan Hussain, |
| 0:44.3 | who of course is historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:49.3 | And it'll be a couple of episodes before Adnan is back, at least in terms of the date of recording. |
| 0:55.2 | Adnan has some hearing problems right now, but when they are back and fixed, he'll be back |
| 1:00.8 | on the show. So be aware, listeners, that it's going to be mostly just me for the next couple |
| 1:05.7 | of episodes from here. But with that being said, we have a terrific guest today and a terrific |
| 1:10.7 | topic. It's a returning guest, fan have a terrific guest today and a terrific topic. It's a |
| 1:11.7 | returning guest fan favorite. Before I introduce them, though, I just want to remind you that you can |
| 1:16.4 | help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com |
| 1:21.7 | forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. And you can find the show on various social media platforms, although they've all been blocked in Russia. So I am not really able to post on them at the moment. But you can find guerrilla history on the various social media platforms. With that being said, we do have a terrific returning guest. We have my friend, Professor Ali Kadri. Ali, it's nice to see you. |
| 1:46.0 | How are you doing today? Very well. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:50.1 | So listeners, if you've been listening to the show for a while, you know that we've had many |
| 1:54.0 | episodes with Ali over the last couple of years, but particularly in the last several months. |
| 1:58.7 | We've had kind of a mini series with Ali discussing |
| 2:02.2 | various topics that he has been examining and analyzing. And today we have another one which is |
| 2:07.8 | completely different than the previous ones, but one that I'm sure will be very exciting for you. |
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