“the overall situation is determined not by the intellectuals but ultimately by the working people, by their most advanced section, the proletariat.”
-mao zedong, bear back the attacks of the bourgeois rightists, 1957; in On Bureacrstic Capitalism. 61
🚨 New Episode 🚨
National Liberation Struggles & the Agrarian Question w/ @maxajl
An outstanding convo with one of our favorite people, Max gives a survey of the agrarian question before discussing its centrality in national liberation🔥
Ep is here 👉 https://t.co/oMj0BUBTvA
@tweetonwheels 1. an hour and a half; the only guideline was it had to be at least 20 minutes 😅
2. unfortunately no. i can DM the slides tho if you want it just lmk
just received the “officially the longest lecture award” for my department🤣
in my defense it was on hegel’s lasting legacy through fichte-schelling-hegel, right + left hegelians; the frankfurt school; the various fields & innovations & of course marx, engels, lenin and mao 🤷🏽
A lot of foodstuff that's central to Japanese identity such as banana, okura, and shrimp are imported from the Global South. Japan's domestic agricultural production also depends largely on agricultural workers migrating from the Global South.
@vovathags23 @urcommunistdad omg yes i didn’t think how that’d come across lol. from the @AIAS_trust summer school which y’all should be attending! it’s free!
Patnaik:
The Global Industrial North [OECD + Japan] are completely dependent on the agricultural producing global south for their high consuming living standards. If trade w/ the global South were to cease; the US, Germany, Britain would plummet to late medieval times.
We remain intellectually colonized even though we are politically independent-Utsa Patnaik as she explains how poverty measurement by scholars from the South remains deeply flawed #MemorialLecture
patnaik: you may ask: why do all of these brilliant economists make such idiotic logical mistakes in their poverty figures?
bc they have abandoned philosophy and logic. they are indoctrinated in the world of abstractions. they should stay in pure mathematics and win a nobel.