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Guerrilla History

The Far Right of a Special Type - 10 Theses w/ Vijay Prashad

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back on our friend Vijay Prashad to talk about one of the latest newsletter articles from the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, titled Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type.  Here, we have a bit of a theoretical discussion before diving in and discussing each of the theses in turn.  Be sure to read the article, critically engage with it, and critically engage with our discussion here as well!
 
Also, check out our previous episodes with Vijay, Washington Bullets, COP26 Dispatch (alongside Chris Saltmarsh), and The Fragility of US Power (alongside Noam Chomsky)!
 
Vijay Prashad is director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor of LeftWord Books, and the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, author of numerous books, and is a multiple-time guest of Guerrilla History.  Follow him on twitter @VijayPrashad.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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You don't remember Den Van Booh?

0:09.0

No!

0:10.0

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

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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.

0:28.4

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts is a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Akamaki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Usain, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing well, Henry. It's great to be with you. Yeah, it's nice to see you too.

0:55.5

I feel like it's been a while since I've seen you, but I'm very happy to see you now. And I'm really looking forward to this conversation with a returning guest who the listeners will inevitably be quite familiar with. But before I introduce the guest and the topic, I just want to remind the listeners that you can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to patreon.com,

1:15.8

forward slash guerrilla history.

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That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history.

1:21.5

And you can keep up to date with what Adnan and I are doing individually, as well as what the show is doing collectively, by going to

1:28.6

Twitter and looking at at Gorilla underscore Pod, G-U-E-R-R-R-I-L-A underscore pod.

1:36.9

As I mentioned, we have a terrific returning guest.

1:40.2

He's been on about three times in the past, I want to say, maybe four. We have Vijay Prashad,

1:46.8

who the listeners will know is with the Tri-Continental Institute and also author of several

1:53.0

books, which we've discussed a few of on the show. You'll remember we talked about Washington

1:57.3

Bullets in our very first episode of the show. And we also had him on along with

2:02.1

Nolm Chomsky about a year and a half ago, I want to say. So Vij, it's nice to have you back on

2:07.4

the show. How are you doing today? Great. Terrific. I wish it was warmer here where I am,

2:13.6

but I'll take what I get. Ah, yeah. Well, you're not in Russia, so it could always be worse.

2:19.5

So we're going to be talking about a really great newsletter that came out from the Tri-Continental.

2:25.4

It's the 33rd newsletter of the Tri-Continental title, 10 Theses on the far right of a special type.

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We'll have this newsletter linked in the show notes, listeners, in case

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