The Imperial Theory Industry w/Gabriel Rockhill [Adnan Husain Show]
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Adnan discusses Professor Gabriel Rockhill's new book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism, v. 1 of The Intellectual World War. This incredibly important book contributes an insurgent foray, a guerrilla attack, against the imperial theory industry and its ideological work in the psychological, intellectual war that is central to the perpetuation of imperialist capitalism of our era. This first volume lays out a crucial method and approach, a way of performing intellectual history through dialectical and historical materialism, while exposing the relationship between the deep state/permanent state forces that have patronized a compatible left culture and the wider systemic network of institutions where intellectual and cultural production takes place. The work goes on to examine some important figures particularly in the so-called "Frankfurt School" and situate these thinkers/scholars and their work within the imperial theory industry. It is a fascinating conversation about an profoundly important new book. We look forward to further volumes in this important series on the Intellectual World War.
Dr. Gabriel Rockhill is a professor of philosophy and global interdisciplinary studies at Villanova University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books and co-founder of the Critical Theory Workshop. Check out its website and consider joining their summer school, attending their events and supporting this collective intellectual and liberatory project: https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, guerrilla history listeners, co-host Henry here. Today we have a reminder that you should be |
| 0:05.8 | subscribing to the Adnan Hussein show, which is of course our sister program hosted by Professor |
| 0:11.4 | Adnan Hussein, who is, of course, my co-host of guerrilla history. I'm sure that you're all |
| 0:16.8 | very familiar with him by this point. In any case, along with this reminder that you should |
| 0:22.2 | be subscribing to the Adnan Hussein show is a reminder that it exists both on YouTube and |
| 0:27.9 | as a podcast. So if you want to watch Adnan interview his guests and have his discussions, |
| 0:33.3 | you can do that on the Adnan Hussein show's YouTube channel. And if you want to listen to it like you listen to Gorilla History, you can subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:42.4 | Today is part of the reminder that you should be subscribing to the Adnan Hussein show. |
| 0:46.7 | We're going to be co-publishing an episode of the Adnan Hussein show in which Adnan interviews Gabriel Rockhill, |
| 0:56.1 | former guest of Gorrilla history, |
| 1:03.0 | of course, about his new book, who paid the Pipers of Western Marxism. It was a really terrific discussion that Adnan had with Gabriel. It's a very important work that Gabriel |
| 1:07.4 | has put together. I want to encourage you to pick up that book as well. |
| 1:11.9 | But do, of course, be sure to subscribe to the Adnan Hussein show and enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:18.4 | One other small note before I unleash you on this episode is that on the Gorilla History |
| 1:25.1 | Patreon, we have also just published an early access episode |
| 1:29.2 | today, an intelligence briefing that Adnan and I had just recorded together, where we |
| 1:33.7 | talk about some recent conferences that we have been attending. Adnan's recent travel to |
| 1:38.0 | Iran, the latest events in Iran. We talked about some other current events as well. It was a very |
| 1:43.3 | interesting and productive conversation, I think. |
| 1:47.1 | It went for a little bit over an hour and 40 minutes long. |
| 1:50.1 | That's already been published on Patreon. |
| 1:52.1 | So if you would like to hear that now, instead of waiting for a week or two and hearing it on the general feed, |
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