How about a show on the right turn of global south leaders? esp Liu Shoaqui, Lee Yew Kuan, Anwar Sadat, Ghana's J.J. Rawlings, Uganda's Museveni, China's birdcage theory
Daniel, you may want to look at getting a different camera or changing the settings on your camera. Your camera is doing a lot of focus breathing, which is distracting to the viewer. Great discussion, btw!
Badiou merges so many threads of thoughts into a neo platonic democratic "materialist". I have learned so much from Badiou and really enjoyed the ride but felt I ended in a dead end. This is based on a reading of "Being and Event"
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm currently almost finished rereading Plato's Republic (Waterfield trans. OWC) and realised there is a lot of trash talking about Plato on the political Left, which misses the mark. The Republic is an exploration of dialectical relationships between the world, society, and psyche. We absolutely should not allow right-wing conservatives to claim Plato as their own. Just one example: Plato's ostensibly anti-democratic political views come from a definition of Democratic which is synonymous with mindless hedonism and politicians determined by random lots. Dictatorships arise when demogigues harness popular opinion in an uneducated hedonistic culture warped by oligarchic market society which harnesses the appetitive and competitive aspects of individual psyches to accumulate money. More marxists should read Plato and Aristotle. In fact, there's a good book by a marxist named Scott Meikle called, Aristotle's Economic Thought.
Losurdo doesn’t quite grasp the mature Badiou’s approach to history or his post-dialectical approach to the work of politics. He also doesn’t have the benefit of reading/engaging with his talks during the Syriza movement in Greece or during the Arab Spring or during the “migrant crisis” in Europe and Africa, which present him at his strategic best. In those texts and elsewhere he remains a preeminent diagnostician of the present political moment (in addition to being our greatest living ontologist)
China is not moving right; it is moving to shared prosperity for all. For the next phase, the plan is to divide the economy into three equally distributed government, large corporation, and worker-owned sectors. I suspect they will then shrink the large corporation sector progressively as they advance.
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Thoroughly enjoyed these sessions, really illuminating.
How about a show on the right turn of global south leaders? esp Liu Shoaqui, Lee Yew Kuan, Anwar Sadat, Ghana's J.J. Rawlings, Uganda's Museveni, China's birdcage theory
Daniel, you may want to look at getting a different camera or changing the settings on your camera. Your camera is doing a lot of focus breathing, which is distracting to the viewer. Great discussion, btw!
It is “in defense of the lost cause” not “in search of the lost cause.” Great discussion btw…
Badiou merges so many threads of thoughts into a neo platonic democratic "materialist". I have learned so much from Badiou and really enjoyed the ride but felt I ended in a dead end. This is based on a reading of "Being and Event"
Thanks for the recommendation.
I'm currently almost finished rereading Plato's Republic (Waterfield trans. OWC) and realised there is a lot of trash talking about Plato on the political Left, which misses the mark. The Republic is an exploration of dialectical relationships between the world, society, and psyche. We absolutely should not allow right-wing conservatives to claim Plato as their own. Just one example: Plato's ostensibly anti-democratic political views come from a definition of Democratic which is synonymous with mindless hedonism and politicians determined by random lots. Dictatorships arise when demogigues harness popular opinion in an uneducated hedonistic culture warped by oligarchic market society which harnesses the appetitive and competitive aspects of individual psyches to accumulate money. More marxists should read Plato and Aristotle. In fact, there's a good book by a marxist named Scott Meikle called, Aristotle's Economic Thought.
Losurdo doesn’t quite grasp the mature Badiou’s approach to history or his post-dialectical approach to the work of politics. He also doesn’t have the benefit of reading/engaging with his talks during the Syriza movement in Greece or during the Arab Spring or during the “migrant crisis” in Europe and Africa, which present him at his strategic best. In those texts and elsewhere he remains a preeminent diagnostician of the present political moment (in addition to being our greatest living ontologist)
China is not moving right; it is moving to shared prosperity for all. For the next phase, the plan is to divide the economy into three equally distributed government, large corporation, and worker-owned sectors. I suspect they will then shrink the large corporation sector progressively as they advance.