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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Sep 21, 2021

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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