[BEST OF] Texas and the Roots of U.S. Fascism w/ Gerald Horne

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Feb 4, 2023

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we unpack Gerald Horne’s explosive and essential work The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism. Horne dismantles the romanticized mythology of Texas independence, revealing it instead as a pro-slavery revolt against Mexico’s abolitionist policies. We trace how white settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and the violent defense of human bondage shaped the formation of Texas—and, more broadly, the reactionary trajectory of U.S. history. This episode challenges the lies we were taught, connecting the dots between the foundation of Texas, the rise of Jim Crow, and the enduring roots of American fascism. A must-listen for anyone serious about confronting the true history of empire.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.2	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.
0:39.1	I'm one of your co-hosts,
0:44.4	Henry Huckermacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are
0:49.3	you doing today? I'm doing great. It's wonderful to be with you, Henry. How's the weather in Canada right now?
0:56.2	Still moderate, you know.
0:58.2	Winter has not yet come, but it will.
1:00.7	Ah, well, I just was asking because we've got snow today.
1:04.6	And also joined by my other usual co-host, Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. Have the snowflakes started falling in Nebraska yet? Not yet. Just leaves so far. I'm doing okay overall. The Packers lost last night, so that was terrible. But I had a good workout today. We're going to talk about fascism throughout this episode. Everybody who opposes fascism should work out and stay fit because things are getting
1:29.4	little crazy, but I'm doing well.
1:31.0	I'm doing well.
1:32.0	It's a great, great way to introduce what we're going to be talking about.
1:35.6	And we are going to be talking about, honestly, one of my favorite guests that we have on
1:39.7	the show.
1:40.1	This will be his third time coming on the show. It's the inimitable professor Gerald Horn, who of course is John Jay and Rebecca Moore's chair of history and African American studies at the University of Houston.
1:51.7	We had him on to talk about the counter-revolution of 1776.
1:55.6	It was one of our very early episodes of the show.
1:57.8	So if you haven't listened to that episode, I highly recommend you go back to do so. And he also joined us for our one-year anniversary live stream that we did about a year
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