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🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 159 minutes
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In this Rev Left Family Annual Collab (Rev Left+Red Menace+Guerrilla History), Alyson, Henry, Adnan, and Breht sit down for a deep dive on South African Apartheid. Together they discuss its euro-colonialist origins, explain the significance of the Boer Wars, define and explicate the origins of apartheid, explore the political economy of apartheid and how brutal racism shaped it, examine the multi-faceted indigenous resistance to apartheid, analyze the end of formal apartheid as well as its ongoing legacy in post-apartheid South Africa, and try to extract important lessons from this history to apply to the ongoing struggle in Palestine.
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| 0:00.0 | You remember Din-Bin-Bu-Bu? |
| 0:07.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria. |
| 0:11.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:15.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The Prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of war there. |
| 0:21.0 | But they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the annual, I guess at this point, event in which the whole Rev Left family comes together. |
| 0:35.0 | Last year we came together to answer a series of questions and this year we're coming together to do a bit of a deeper dive on South African apartheid. Of course this whole concept and this whole history is becoming increasingly relevant in the face of what's going on in Palestine currently. |
| 0:52.0 | And so we figured that, you know, having on |
| 0:53.4 | in Palestine currently and so we figured that you know having a sort of deep dive on South African |
| 0:57.3 | apartheid could clarify some similarities some differences with the case in |
| 1:01.9 | Israel as well as other you know related |
| 1:05.3 | phenomena like segregation after failed reconstruction in the American South |
| 1:09.2 | in a lot of ways I and maybe will there be some disagreement on this going forward but I see |
| 1:14.1 | South African apartheid as sort of this mix of what you know sort of Israeli |
| 1:19.6 | settler colonialism and impression with some fundamental differences and with you know |
| 1:24.6 | Jim Crow in the South and there's lots of sort of parallels between both |
| 1:29.3 | and some interesting differences that perhaps we can get into I guess for lack of a better term we call |
| 1:34.4 | episodes like this revolutionary guerrilla menace episodes, a sort of |
| 1:38.8 | of mixture of everything. So this is really fun and we don't get to do this as much as |
| 1:42.3 | I think all of us would like. |
| 1:44.0 | So it's always a pleasure to have Allison, Henry, and Adnan together in the same place. |
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