Goodnight, Pax Americana: Neoliberalism and the decline of the US Empire w/ Radhika Desai
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2023
- Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba. In this episode, she and TRN Podcast co-host Nick Estes discuss the waning days of the Neoliberal world system dominated by the United States.
Check out her latest book, Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy (2022) available as a free PDF from the publisher.
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Dr. Desai's discussions are a bit dense, but stick with it. I am slowly becoming comfortable with economic terminology and structures. It actually gives me a better understanding of how the US feds operates and the effects on our Indigenous communities. This is who they are.
Radhika Desai is one of my most respected and admired theorists in the field of economics and geopolitics. What a treat to have her on the show. She, along with others such as Michael Hudson, Ben Norton and Steve Keen, are providing an invaluable challenge to the intellectual (if it can be so called) underpinnings of our failing western neo-liberal capitalist system.
Professor/Dr. Radhika Desai is so generous with her knowledge. I have viewed at least 6 hours of Radhika Desai via TH-cam/Podcast. Always rewarded. At first, a fountain of new knowledge. Since, building on this knowledge. Her teachings have irreversibly rearranged my perspective, deepened my understanding, strengthened existing knowledge on world history/events how they influence our current circumstances. Little did I know how little I knew. We cannot be where we are without having been where we were, Radhika Desai demonstrates this axiom. Best wishes.. Regarding your cough Dr. ... a glass of water! 😊
Dang, I'm trying to keep up with all the knowledge Prof. Desai shares here. Thanks!
Thank You Nick & Professor Radhika Desai Great Interview ! ❤️ Solidarity
long time podcast listener first time watching this youtube format, it’s wonderful to see the faces of those speaking:) great episode
such an insightful episode!
Thanks so much, both of you. Im a huge fan of Radikha
Two thoughts regarding Radhika Desai's theses:
1. She argues that geopolitical economy is distinct from political economy in its recognition of historical "nations" and not just abstract factors of production and other principles of political economy (trade, distribution, exchange rates, etc.). In other words, her conception of geopolitical economy is a way to historicize and particularize (and more to the point, territorialize) political economy, rather than abstracting society as a "market." She argues that nations are social realities that cannot be dismissed. However, I would argue that "nations" are no more real than "individuals," although both are obviously powerful social realities. Both are historically constructed ideas, they do not exist in reality, they are an identity nexus primarily of race (biology) and place (birth). Is India a nation? It's a nation-state, certainly, but is there some metaphysical thing called India that exists transhistorically? Nations have been called imagined communities, and Radhika seems to be contesting this characterization. But I think we should be more critical of the idea of a "nation" which is a metaphysical and historical idea embodied in particular places and times. The modern nation-state is the political organ of the European bourgeoisie after 1830. Traditionally, nations were defined by religion, not by a nation-state. You were French or Russian or Ottoman because of your religion. I suggest the chapter on nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm in "The Age of Revolution 1789-1848." He traces modern nationalism as a metaphysical movement and notes that the nation-states of non-Western countries did not even form until the twentieth century, through a union of mass poverty and mass religion for state mobilization.
2. She argues that capitalism was about production, but I would argue that it was always about two things: ownership and exchange. Capitalism is not fundamentally a system for exchanging money-capital nor goods and services. Capitalism is a system for exchanging ownership, and that can be ownership of anything, from money-capital to commodities to all kinds of financial or other assets or property. Another word for exchange of ownership is alienation. This is the root of capitalism, the alienation and perfect mobility of the factors of production (land, labor, capital).
Wow, she’s an amazing speaker. Love your channel, keep it up 👍!
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It's interesting how intellectuals discuss extermination and genocide of the the natives. It sounds as if they weren't murdered for their land and essentially wiped out. It's like saying the natives were "only" exterminated as the European who took over North America made their way to the Pacific Coast. Just an observation. Great discussion.