VIJAY PRASHAD on Capitalism’s Erosion of Morality [ENCORE] /268

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Vijay Prashad, originally aired in February of 2021. Emboldened by the rapid development of technology, a cultural ethos of rugged individualism, globalization, and the monopolization of our media, the era of efficiency in the so-called Global North has significantly altered our communal symbiosis. For many, acts of service that would have once been fulfilled by neighbors and community have now been replaced by apps and gig workers, ultimately commodifying most of our social relations in one form or another. This week on the podcast, we are joined by guest Vijay Prashad to explore how societies take care of themselves, what true public action looks like in crisis, and how movements across the world have resisted the privatization of life and the devaluation of care that we have become accustomed to. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor at LeftWord Books and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter. His most recent book is Washington Bullets, just out from Monthly Review Press with a preface by Evo Morales Ayma. Music by Nathan Keck, Lizabett Russo, Sidi Touré, and Jon Yonts. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.Support the show

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0:47.0	Welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Young.
0:50.8	This week we are re-broadcasting our interview with Vijay Prasad,
0:54.9	originally aired in February of 2021. We hope you enjoy this special on-core episode.
1:03.7	This is a canary in the coal mine, not of social systems that are not working and so on.
1:10.5	It's a canary in the coal mine about feeling, about the compassion,
1:14.8	sense of compassion in a country.
1:18.0	Vijay Prasad is the director of Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor
1:24.4	at Leftward Books, and Chief Correspondent for Globe Trotter. His most recent book is Washington Bullets,
1:31.2	just out from monthly review press with a preface by Evo Morales, IMA.
1:38.8	Well, Vijay, thank you so much for coming on to For the Wild.
1:43.2	Great. It's great to be with you and I just love the name of this podcast for the wild.
1:49.2	It's very resonant of, you know, so much about the way we live in the world where, you know,
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