"Writing about Communism," Vijay Prashad
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- Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University
Spring 2015 Lecture Series
Seminar, "Writing about Communism"
Vijay Prashad
George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History; Professor, International Studies, Trinity College
Friday, April 17, 2015
10:00 a.m.
Toboggan Lodge, 38 Forest Home Drive
Don't ask how you came into the movement...ask who were your parents...what are your siblings doing... in between theory and practice...is the life....(the everyday life)....
writing about joining a movement that is"fated ti fail...but presumed to succeed...(at some future date)"..very well said.
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Ram Chandran ...Communism?
That ship sailed - failed long ago.
Ram Chandran capitalism- that shipped has sailed, blowing the world the fuck up with it
"Communism doesn't treat other people's prejudices as inferior, they treat other people's prejudices as historical."
I agree, that one sentence alone is already worth the time it takes to watch this. We had just been talking about the prejudices around us in our community, and our own, over lunch. I watched this an hour later, and quoted this to my family members as illuminating our own discussion. They agreed.
Communists don't treat others prejudices as inferior but treat them as historical.
A brilliant economist wrote about the writing of other economists: the memorable economists purposely used a style that was difficult to understand in order to raise the commitment of their followers. Having had to invest decades to try to understand their master's work, members of the school cannot easily one day decide it is all wrong. They would be tossing their years into the trash bin. How contrary to the example of the early 20th century mathematician, Gothold Frege! When young Bertrand Russell based a paradox on Frege's logic, Frege quickly acknowledged the problem, though it went to the heart of his work.
We must tell our Liberal friends, who hold up the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, that this man was a Fascist Sympathizer; and if that's any indication of how principled he was, or signals to us how little he valued truth, then we need to point this out to everyone who throws fictional works like "The Gulag Archipelago" into our faces.
EMS was totally wrong about caste he is the person who had supported upper caste reservation and he himself withdrew it due to the pressure . How can you take a uppercaste vision in to address an issue
We all are victims of culture and prejudices
I would argue that conditions in China are being determined by the world in which China exists.
The vast majority of the planet lives in a world dominated by the capitalist mode of production - the socialized nature of production and the private expropriation of wealth.
China for 1.) New that it could not build Socialism in poverty, and 2.) Was forced to adapt, in order to increase productive forces, socialize production, and enrich itself with the ultimate goal being to wait out the change that is coming, and build a better society for the Chinese People.
Where can I have the copies?
The communists learners of a nation should take care of the old and sick folks of the countery and they can earn a good name for themselves ! And pay fair compensation for land taken away !....
Don’t just talk about it. Start a project, show that it works and people will follow. For now it’s but an intellectual exercise bringing about fleeting euphoria about Utopia.
The people won't follow.
It's class struggle.
The ruling class must be overthrown and socialism will be established.
If you have interest in socialism, what have you done till now to support the cause?????
You just want to "follow".
Today you are follower of capitalist system.
Tomorrow you will remain a follower but the system will change.
I think you are used to be the cattle, who has to be driven.
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Capitalism Says: The Ends Justify the Means
Communism Says: The Means Determine the Ends
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To the Conscious Hell 💚
Until the Paradise of Consciousness 💜
Identify and Differentiate the Left from the Right
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drpk has renounced marxism leninism... seriously vijay?
Did they not?
@@UnrecycleRubdish nope. they did a new synthesis of marxism which is an evolving science. they have never "renounced it".