Intellectuals and Workers: Radhika Desai

On December 9, 2023, Radhika Desai presented at a webinar entitled "The Fateful Divorce of Intellectuals and Working People. You can watch the entire webinar at • The Fateful Divorce of... .
This panel discussion, which took place December 9, 2023, featured analyses of the apparent severing of the relationship between intellectuals and the working class, and the historical importance of an alliance between working people and intellectuals for socialist politics. The webinar was co-hosted by the International Manifesto Group, Critical Theory Workshop and the Midwestern Marx Institute.
Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies. She is the Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the convenor of the International Manifesto Group. Her books include Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy (2023), Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month.
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Geopolitical Economy Research Group: geopoliticalec...
Critical Theory Workshop: criticaltheory...
Midwestern Marx Institute: www.midwestern...

[@rustatum2382]

Thank you for your insight. It's so hard to explain to PMCs that they are in fact a class that serves the 1% and impede the mobilization of the 99%.

[@jason8434]

Nobody wants to mobilize the 99% unless they absolutely have to. Employment is a form of mobilization, that's the preferred method of mobilization of the lower classes. What I've learned working with PMCs is that they will give you what they owe, but never what they know. Knowledge is power, that's what the early socialists focused so much on self education and organized association. Nobody is coming to save the 99%, is the main point. As the great Frederick Douglas said, power never concedes anything without a demand, it never has and never will.

[@nycboogie]

Rhadika is a ⭐

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