Understanding The Reactionary Mind: Right-Wing Conspiracy Thinking
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, the guys discuss the psychological, historical, and material underpinnings of right wing conspiracies (with a focus on QAnon) and then explore the reasons why conspiratorial thinking is - and always has been - an essential feature of reactionary politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:08.9 | So today's episode I'm just putting out a Patreon episode that we did over at our other project |
| 0:14.1 | Gorilla History. |
| 0:15.3 | This was initially for patrons only but then it was unlocked because we thought it was valuable. |
| 0:20.9 | And overall we just wanted to encourage people who like Gorilla History to support us on |
| 0:26.0 | Patreon in exchange for this kind of content. |
| 0:28.7 | I know money is thin if you're already supporting RevLeft totally fine. |
| 0:32.9 | But for those out there who do like content and have the money to support independent left |
| 0:37.6 | wing media, it's always encouraged and deeply appreciated. |
| 0:41.3 | So putting this out because it's a good episode in and of itself, it's a deep dive into |
| 0:45.5 | right wing conspiracy theories and thinking and it also is a promotion of our newer project |
| 0:51.2 | Gorilla History which there's probably still people out there that haven't heard about. |
| 0:54.8 | And it's the perfect example of the sort of content you get on the Gorilla History Patreon |
| 0:59.6 | feed. |
| 1:00.6 | So without further ado let's get into this conversation with my co-hostsong Gorilla History, Henry |
| 1:04.4 | Hakamaki and Adnan Hussain. |
| 1:06.3 | Enjoy. |
| 1:07.3 | You remember Zen Zen Boo? |
| 1:15.3 | No! |
| 1:16.3 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 1:21.1 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 1:23.8 | They're friends yet all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare. |
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