Episode 196 - Who Speaks for the Trees? (w/ Vijay Prasad)
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4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Marxist historian, commentator, author, and executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Vijay Prasad joins Bad Faith this week to talk about what global revolutions in Sri Lanka, India, Colombia, and other locales around the world can teach Americans trying to cultivate a left revolution here at home. How should the left put pressure on captured union leadership, and how can it hold left politician's accountable? Does the left "eat itself," or is it in a necessary processes of developing a more adversarial theory of change? How does Vijay believe he will see revolution in his lifetime even as he observes the enormous structural barriers to change?
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:00.0 | If you're interested about a material, feel free to subscribe to chipsetcom.com |
| 0:12.3 | Thank you |
| 0:15.6 | to all my employees |
| 0:28.6 | I'm very happy to announce that today I'm joined by Vijay Poshad, an Indian historian, |
| 0:40.5 | scholar and journalist. |
| 0:41.5 | He's a writing fellow in chief correspondent at Globe Trotter. |
| 0:44.9 | He's an editor and left word books and the director of Tri-Continental Institute for |
| 0:49.0 | Social Research. |
| 0:50.4 | He's written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poor Nations. |
| 0:54.2 | And his latest books are Struggle Makes It's Human, Learning From Movements for Socialism. |
| 0:58.5 | And with Noam Chomsky, the withdrawal, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and the fragility of |
| 1:03.2 | US power. |
| 1:04.2 | Thank you so much for joining the podcast today. |
| 1:06.2 | It's a pleasure, honestly. |
| 1:07.2 | I was really very honored to hear from you on Twitter of all places. |
| 1:13.0 | And then to be with you is really a pleasure for me. |
| 1:16.0 | Thanks a lot. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, I'm really not overstating things when I say, when I ask the audience recommendations |
| 1:21.4 | about who they'd like to hear from. |
| 1:23.3 | Your name comes up every time. |
| 1:24.5 | And it's at the top of my list and has been at the top of my list for a while. |
| 1:27.5 | So I'm so glad you're able to join. |
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