Where can I find the song at the end of this video? Sounds Russian.

Have a ton of admiration for Chibber and think his books represent a significant advance in no small part due to the clarity of their argument. AND/BUT: it’s spurious (and embarrassing) to suggest that the trans movement was “recognized by the state within minutes”…and says “I don’t know any movement that had to fight that LITTLE.” This guy teaches at NYU and is somehow unaware of the fights (decades and decades worth) that went on within blocks of his own campus by STAR and so many other orgs? Good grief.

In terms of how to do socialist political strategy, as opposed to critique of capitalism, I believe Ralph Milliband already did a lot of the work in the English language, in Marxism and Politics and elsewhere. As an Anglican, I'm all in favour of an ecumenical journal and approach, and the avoidance of sectarianism as far as possible. I don't at all see how doubling down on the splits of the 20th century over doctrine, founding hero and party form at all help with building the working class into a class in itself and for itself, which in the first place means creating the working class as a political party - singular. Leninists, and especially Trotskyists it seems to me, are in such a hurry to get to the siezure of power in the midst of revolutionary conditions by a disciplined party of dedicated revolutionaries that they completely skip and scorn the preceding period of class and party formation which enabled any working class political intervention in the decade 1910-1920 whatsoever. But without that long work of developing consciousness and organisation through open, internally democratic, electoral, national mass parties, in tandem with the development of union organisation and militancy, all the Blanquism and Lenin's party of a new kind would have been meaningless and fully futile. So the first thing to do is the establishment of an autonomous, independent working class party to take part in elections and to support and incite workplace militancy, on a broad basis. There can be no further countenancing of the idea of voting for or supporting in any way the oligarchic bourgeois parties of government such as Dems and Reps in the US or New Labour, Lib-Dems, Conservatives and the bourgeois separatist parties in the UK. They must be fought publicly, consistently and unconditionally as class enemies. And to do that, in the west, the professional-managerial class needs to recognised as an enemy class, as much as the bourgeoisie and rentier oligarchs are enemy classes. The main problem has been professional-managerial class hijacking of once social democratic mass parties, which have consequently ceased to be either social democratic (let alone democratic socialist) or mass based. Obsessions with non-class identities and etiquette are expressions of pmc self-promotion and policing of class boundaries to exclude ordinary workers. That is why the socialist lefts in western countries are now almost devoid of working class membership, including among Leninists of both traditions, and ineffective through self-isolation from the masses in class terms.

Narcissistic Crusader mentality cancer of the world has no moral compass, debt and oppression, Prison Complex, military complex aggression, racist court systems, all must be disbanded. American International policing around the world must be disbanded.

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Vijay Prashad supports cutting up genitals of people deemed as problematic by society, and he doesn't even know it? I doubt. Is he that stupid?

Great interview. Vijay is the worthy successor to Noam Chomsky

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Infinite important points , time and time again. ✌💞💪🤙🖖 Fellow Earthlings

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Vijay is a very wise man

Cant take anyone who is emfatuated with china seriously. The disloyalty, in favour of their lack of ethics....

We got a garrison state at home is what we got from the war in Iraq.

Oh the NYT is trash domestically also. Absolute racist, classist, transphobic, imperialist trash.

This is my new favorite interview with Vijay, "Vijay Unbound", lol. Thank you guys.

Great video. It's always great to see Prashad.

I only wish more people can hear this. ❤😊

Thank you for enlightening me on the CIA

Hi I'm new to this kind of Ideas. Some questions. 1. What class Mr. Vijay Prashad belongs to.? 2. Have there ever been a successful viable humane political society matching aspirations mentioned here, to take as a model? 3. Is cultivating such a reality even possible with current form of human nature?

Vijay you are of the best people on the planet, wish we had more like you

How is it non-sectarian if the journal’s supposed to be all about Lenin?

We will develop a labor party based on the power of the labor unions. This party will actually fight to end class society.

good one...

Washingtonian leftist that is glad to have followed Vijay and found you all at Class Unity. Subscribed, looking forward to more and hope to help get that journal going!!!

Excellent!! ❤

Calling it American Imperialism implies it benefits America. But American citizens are the acknowledged by their government to be their enemy.

We need more such discussions for class unity around the globe.

You are an amazing orator and scholar… I could listen to you all day every day… you speak what I think… your knowledge is far far superior…just amazing analysis of sensitive topics

Didn't Marx and Engels both very much discuss the state. Yes, they DID. Engels book and Critique of the Gotha Program, Marx's early writing, even the debates on the thefts of wood. Is this guy kidding? Critique of the Paris Commune's not having a "state" of the workers to repress the ruling class. What? Confused completely. Why is this David guy saying this? POLITICAL ECONOMY IS about the state. Not getting this at all.

As Vijay said, western “Marxists” skip over Lenin, who pioneered the turning of Marxist theory into a successful revolutionary socialist reality (at least under Lenin and, yes, Stalin, contra the terrified and terrifying CIA-capitalist-anticommunist propaganda that we Americans have been breathing, and choking on, all our lives). Chomsky is an anticommunist, having accused Lenin of pushing socialism to the right (by which Chomsky means revolutionary socialism). Wondering if, in the nonsectarian spirit Vijay is promoting, he has engaged Chomsky on this elephant-in-the-room point? That would make a great book!

Why would you trust anything Jackson Hinkle wrote? Grifter

Every single piece of technology that you use right now everyday was invented in America. A free-market captialist system. That's not a coincidence.

this guy repeats the same story across thousands of videos... while never ever speaking about the real tyranny imposed by TECHNOLOGY So typical of the bogus Left Intelligentsia which eventually has a shared devotion, with the RIght, to the Imperial techno-industrial civilzation.

"Class Unity" is oxymoronic as "class" is a divisive construct..

They never developed since 3000 year, glorifying SPARTANS as their idols, a parasitic culture living on the blood of others (Helots): drive.google.com/file/d/1jdiTXaBedfNpxCi_ziAYmdmoPxM3xET2/view?usp=drivesdk kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZ23gauAich1hqMsi=2sL9NfgbuNhigbw9

Vijay is so good.

Amazing

Absolutely

About ecumenical discussion, ten years ago I tried to edit a book titled Comrades: Cross-Ideological Collaboration on the Left. I won't say who I invited but only one person was interested: Marc Herbst of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest.

It’s late in the “game,” sort of like the bottom of the ninth inning. Vijay Prashad is one of few public intellectuals left standing.

Mr Prashad, dear admired Vijay, I’m Chilean. I know you’ve been living there. I’ve been living in Australia for nearly 20 years, mainly working with Aboriginal community people in this country, in the Central Desert. I hope you’ll get my message: Have you uploaded any videos like this one, in Spanish? I’d love to share your thoughts in Spanish in social media. Regards

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I bet Vijay and Noam disagree heartily on Lenin, for all their common ground..

I'm not the only 1 to notice how Foreign Assets have been used to strike Countries terroristically to urge Countries to accept protection while the real reason is parasitic for those who support the elitist 🇺🇲 government and are against Hi Mr Vijay and Caroline ❤️🌍🦾😇🌹🕊️

Not a fan of folks like Blumenthal or Galloway. They seem to lean too far right imo. Sarah Wagenknecht seems legit though.

Awesome critique of Western Marxism and how we need to move forward

Exactly

So what search we have to use

Yes master of knowledge

Oh my goodness How great journalist you are