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The Principal Contradiction: Understanding and Applying Dialectical Materialism
🕑 Added 2020-09-18 22:17:34 +0000 UTCTorkil Lauesen joins Breht to discuss his newest book "The Principal Contradiction". In this discussion, Torkil and Breht discuss dialectical materialism, how it is applied in real world situations, and the role that contradiction plays in it all.
In the 1970s and 80s, Torkil Lauesen was a member of a clandestine communist cell which carried out a series of robberies in Denmark, netting very large sums which were then sent on to various national liberation movements in the Third World. Following their capture in 1989, Torkil would spend six years in prison. While incarcerated, he was involved in prison activism and received a Masters degree in political science. He is currently a member of International Forum, an anti-imperialist organization based in Denmark.
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Revolutionary Left Radio
I will try and find his email right now!
Thomas Sankara
Fascinating discussion, can’t wait to get the book. Is there not a 4th non principle contradiction between the post war period and the long sixties? That is the contradiction between the US national security state and its internal nationally oppressed colonies of black and indigenous peoples?
Jamie Sims
Great interview! Would be cool if you could get Ian Scott Horst on to talk about Ethiopia. He recently had a book out with the new Foreign Langauges Press called "Like Ho Chi Minh! Like Che Guevara!" about the revolutionary left in Ethiopia in the sixties and seventies. I read the book last week and it's truly excellent. There's a lot there about the complexities of national liberation and revolutionary democracy, as well the whole situation being a very interesting historical episode in terms of Cold War politics, the Sino-Soviet split, Soviet social imperialism, etc.
