As an unprecedented global pandemic sweeps the planet, who better than the supercharged Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Žižek to uncover its deeper meanings, marvel at its mind-boggling paradoxes, and speculate on the profundity of its consequences, all in a manner...
"The Contemporary Relevance of Marx" --Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale University, USA) at the Marx Collegium, 2017 Marx's Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism (York University, Canada).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=146&v=pH9RPu6YdLg
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The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism. And we must struggle to atone, to reconstruct, to create a different historical system.” So wrote the late sociologist and thinker Immanuel Wallerstein in unequivocal...
Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the world’s greatest social theorists has left this 'world system' with a message - the solutions to the ills of capitalism won’t be found in one country. He has been the defender of the rights...
Chomsky on the “Limits” of Knowledge & Thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=8kmvVwtT4eI
Watch More at https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/chomsky-on-the-limits-of-knowledge-thought/
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Immanuel Wallerstein
My first commentary appeared on October 1, 1998. It was published by the Fernand Braudel Center (FBC) at Binghamton University. I have produced commentaries on the first and the fifteenth of every month since then without exception. This...
Sankar Varma
K.C
With the advent of capitalism, especially with its delineating sort of culture, monopolies are on the rise. This very formation of a monopoly definitely calls for a surveillance that can be ‘socialist’ in nature and not capitalistic. Hence...
A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. Recorded at The People’s Forum in New York City in 2019. Links to the complete course:
Read More http://davidharvey.org/2019/05/reading-marxs-capital-volume-1-with-david-harvey-2019-edition/
