Western Marxism w/ Gabriel Rockhill

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

In this fantastic episode of Guerrilla History, bring on Gabriel Rockhill to discuss the landmark new English translation of the legendary Domenico Losurdo's Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn, freshly out from Monthly Review Press. This critical work acts as a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia, showing how it is rooted in the political economy of imperialism. The conversation we have surrounding this is deep, generative, and thought provoking, so be sure to listen closely!

In addition to reading Western Marxism, Gabriel also recommended the book Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines, which is also available from Monthly Review Press. Check it out!

Gabriel Rockhill is a philosopher and activist who has published numerous books. He is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Be sure to follow him on twitter @GabrielRockhill.

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0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.6	Hello, and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your
0:39.1	co-host, Sanri Hakimaki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and
0:45.1	director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you
0:50.0	doing today? I'm doing great, Henry. It's really wonderful to be with you, looking forward
0:54.3	to this conversation we have today. Yeah, absolutely. As always, a pleasure seeing you second time this
0:59.7	week, but I can never get enough of it. We are joined by a terrific guest, and I have to say,
1:05.0	quite overdue. We've done about 200 episodes of the show at this point, and it's really a shock
1:09.5	that we haven't had him on the show at this point, but we's really a shock that we haven't had him on the show
1:11.0	at this point, but we are rectifying that now, and he will certainly be on the show again in
1:17.0	the future and hopefully the relatively near future. But before I introduce him and the terrific
1:22.2	work that we're going to be talking about today, I would like to remind the listeners that they
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1:43.4	by following us on Twitter at Gorilla underscore pod. Again, that's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A-U-A-U-Pod. So as I said, we have a really terrific guest, somebody who, frankly, we should have had on the show a long time ago, but now that he's on the show once, we're going to have him back on again as long as he agrees to. We have Professor Gabriel Rock, who's a philosopher,
2:06.2	an activist, a writer of numerous books, founding director of the Critical Theory Workshop,
2:11.8	and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Hello, Gabriel. It's nice to finally
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