A World to Win: Liberation and Domination - an interview with Cornel West
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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. On this week’s show, Grace Blakeley is joined by author, academic and activist Cornel West to discuss radical politics in the United States.
West, a philosopher at Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department, gives his views on Black Lives Matter, the “neo-fascism” of Donald Trump and the need to critique the role of American empire across the world.
He also discusses how the Left can fight back against these morbid symptoms, by building a socialist spirituality, a culture of resistance and broad coalitions for social change which can transform the political landscape.
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Thanks to our producer, Conor Gillies, and Tribune’s designer Kevin Zweerink for their work on this episode. This podcast is supported by the Lipman-Miliband Trust.
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| 0:16.1 | Hello and welcome to a world to win a podcast from Tribune magazine I'm Grace Blakely bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news theory and action |
| 0:21.2 | from around the world. |
| 0:23.4 | This episode was honestly one of the most fascinating conversations I've ever had. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm joined by the incredible Cornell West, philosopher, activist and artist, who's written dozens of books, featured on several music albums, |
| 0:35.9 | and even had a part in some of the Matrix films. But more important than all that, |
| 0:39.8 | has been his incredible advocacy for socialism, feminism, anti-racism, and against white supremacy, |
| 0:45.8 | which has made him something of a moral leader in the US and around the world. |
| 0:50.0 | In today's interview, we discuss socialism, culture, spirituality and much more. |
| 0:56.0 | I want to say a big thank you to all our listeners for all their support for the show so far. |
| 1:00.3 | We're close to 100,000 downloads now and we've hit 250 ratings on iTunes, which is great. |
| 1:06.0 | A really quick and easy way to help the show is just to go to iTunes and give us a rating. |
| 1:10.0 | I also want to say a big thank you to all our patrons. We're so close to reaching our |
| 1:14.8 | fundraising target now, so if you've been considering becoming a patron for a while, |
| 1:18.9 | but haven't gotten around to it, please do consider doing so now. Just hit pause and head over to |
| 1:24.3 | Patreon at patreon.com slash a world to win pod. That's patreon.com slash a |
| 1:30.3 | world to win pod. By becoming a patron you'll get access to the full hour long |
| 1:35.2 | interviews that we do with all our guests including those with Jeremy Corbyn, |
| 1:39.1 | Naomi Klein and of course this episode with Cornell West. We're also going to be selling |
| 1:43.9 | merch soon exclusively to patrons and providing exclusive offers on |
| 1:47.8 | subscriptions to Tribune and my forthcoming books, the Corona Crash and |
| 1:51.8 | Futures of Socialism. |
| 1:54.0 | A big thank you to the Lippman-Miloban Trust for providing us with the grant funding |
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