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Sep 2021
1h 46m

The Spectre Still Haunts: Breaking the I...

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The one and only Hakim joins Breht to discuss the Iraq war from the perspective of Iraqis, the western left, Lenin, Reform AND Revolution, the importance of anti-imperialist struggle, contradictions and crises, the global south, etc. At the end, Hakim fields a bunch of common anti-socialist talking points and dismantles them one by one. 

This is a wide ranging and genuinely fun conversation with a great comrade and political educator! 

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