Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio.

On today's episode we have the one and only Hakeem.

Many of you might know him from YouTube.

On the show to discuss a plethora of topics.

We recorded this the day after September 11th and Hakeem is obviously an Iraqi Marxist

and so we opened the discussion with a sort of prolonged discussion of 9-11.

This impacts America and Iraq, how it shaped his politics, impacted his life and his family,

incredibly harrowing and you know, fascinating to get that perspective which in the American

media you almost never ever get that perspective from the victims of US imperialism.

If there's ever even a critique of it it's framed in terms of the blood and treasure

that America lost and I think that is chauvinist and racist and disgusting.

So hearing voices from West Asia, the region impacted most recently by brutal and belligerent

American imperialism is crucial.

But after that opening phase we just open up the discussion.

We talk about a bunch of different topics and at the end we do this really fun lightning

round where I toss some common objections against socialism towards Hakeem and he answers

them with absolutely no prep, just freestyling off the top of his head really impressive and

just overall a blast of an episode.

So I really hope that you enjoyed.

If you haven't already go on to YouTube, search Hakeem, like and subscribe, show him some

Rev left love and without further ado, here's my discussion with Hakeem on a plethora of

topics.

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