From Jim Crow Kentucky to Red Square - RAI with Stephen Cohen (4/5)

Prof. Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University and of Russian studies and history at New York University, his recent book is titled ‘War with Russia? From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate’; Cohen discusses the forces that shaped his political thinking on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay
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[@richardburt9812]

Love Stephen Cohen. A eloquent man who actually knows a lot.

[@65minimom]

How did I miss 2 episodes?

[@vika_festu]

Stephen Cohen is THE ONLY person that actually knows what he is talking about. Sad that he has been isolated from American social and media life.

[@amania9254]

He truly knows what he is speaking about. Very logical person. Extremely honest. Love to watch TheRealNews for this sort of Real Journalism.

[@johnschmit6815]

Wonderful to see Pro. Cohen's photos through the ages!

[@stevencoardvenice]

Love to see paul Jay back doin interviews

[@mohammadkaveh9125]

Great discussion. Thank you Paul and Stephen. We are so deprived of such frank discussions; it is heartbreaking.

[@arfrances7609]

Fascinating. I hope his voice will be heard so that we can avoid new confrontations with Russia.

[@krevetka9744]

Hasn't been heard in the end.

[@frankporter6169]

Excellent series of interview by Paul. Thank you

[@Braveheart.22]

What an informative and delightful interview...thank you⚘

[@Augalv]

R.I.P. Mr. Stephen Cohen. You'll be greatly missed.

[@stevesayewich8594]

Having read Hemingway and minored in Soviet Studies in undergrad, this interview with Stephen Cohen is either luck or fate.

[@PretzelSurvival]

When you're young nothing is understandable but everything is normal. When you're older everything is understandable but nothing is normal.

[@sandraellis3611]

Fascinating, thank you!

[@BartAnderson_writer]

I find Stephen Cohen's story strangely moving. He insists on his real experiences, not on stereotyped images.

[@65minimom]

My late husband was on football scholarship at U of K & he had the first black roommate, nobody else would room with him. The football team protected this guy or it would have been very difficult for this young black man & not so easy for my husband either. (grad 1968) Talent saved their butts.

[@brianbooker8736]

This interview started out talking about different realities; I'm heavy into philosophy and I believe logic shapes an individual's reality. I'm a couple of years younger than your guest; I grew up in the Mid-West and this created my logic. I'm a middle baby boomer; the WW2 logic had very little influence in creating my reality. Protests for equality shaped my logic; a race equality was the reality of my childhood. As an American dialectic; a mixture of Black and White, I was rejected by both races so I developed a logic of class equality; the solution to my inequality reality. I've always grown things; as a child I had a garden in my Grandmother's back yard. I discovered the writing of Marx and Chairman Mao at a young age and Chairman Mao was a perfect fit that helped me develop an organic logic of class equality. Young kids have a saying "don't blame the player blame the Game" which says there is a structure; a design. The Game has rules and if you understand the rules and use them to your advantage you can have success in the game. People are threatened by Communism, Socialism and Marxian thought but what people fear most about Marx is his critique of Capital. Marx dissects Capital (value in motion); he defines the laws that govern value in motion. The law of ownership leads to accumulation of the universal equivalent of value; money. Accumulation of money allows for the accumulation of power; power that insures the ability to accumulate more money. As value in motion increases the mass of accumulation increases; this is the dialectic of Capital's reality . Most philosophy's are secular in nature but my reality has an organic logic. Contrary to popular belief history did not end with Capitalism. Capitalism is an organic process a game that has society at the edge of extinction. Everybody knows this but they can't escape the logic that has them a slave to the game of Capital in motion. Free will and destiny are the philosopher's greatest query but what if they to are a dialectic also. Destiny is the design; the master and free will or freedom; is the essence or geist the slave. What if just like the plant the design is the instructions to grow and the essence is the fruit it bares. This system is collapsing; all organism's die and Capitalism is not immune. Chris Martenson has a podcast titled "Living with Integrity" and I recommend people watch it and try to metabolize the integrity logic.

[@annoloki]

The language is a little lax which leads to confusion and things not being clear. The thing that everybody has their own of is called "perception". You don't have your own reality, by definition, reality is that which is shared, it excludes the subjective, and you are part of it, not the other way round. Of course, you have your own perception, based on your own experiences of reality, but if you don't separate "perception" from "reality" and understand they are two different things, any pseudo-philosophy that you derive will be schizophrenic (ie, it will be unable to tell the difference between what is from the mind and what is from the world). Not making the distinction is a very common mistake, which is unfortunate, introducing the two different labels does seem to help people get their head around it all.

[@brianbooker8736]

I was trying to have the comment stay true to the message of the video; in past comments I've tied logic with sense perception. The main purpose of the comment is to motivate people to watch the Chris Martenson video. Thanks for the critique; that is another reason for the comment.@@annoloki

[@brianbooker8736]

Logic, sense perception and reality was only one of three themes in the comment. @@annoloki

[@thequickbrownfox9455]

👍👍👍

[@freeparsons7115]

I love Stephen Cohen! Too bad these videos are horribly cut and titled and released separately so that it's next to impossible to just watch the discussion.

[@caimacd]

love you all.

[@barumbadum]

Great interview...

[@chycho]

Excellent :)

[@OlegLefterov]

it is our "SUDBA" to watch this video! thx to prof. Cohen for his wonderful interview! Hope Russia and the West can be friends!

[@user-ic7ew7vc3i]

It’s sad that this man passed away 😢😢

[@musicsynergy86]

I like to listen to this on my phone but the volume is too low even when set to max :(

[@aleaiactaest8354]

Really interesting.

[@Qossuth]

That's an amazing story. Being an American I have to think it's an accident, but who knows. Thank you Paul and Stephen for sharing this.

[@raphaelgamaroff6225]

Don't you meaning "being an atheist?"

[@mrp9498]

Great stuff

[@randomupdates2238]

It’s a shame he didn’t take up the opportunity to learn about socialism and it’s counter to American Jimcrow and imperialist capitalism.

[@bogyo66]

Are you, umm, Matt Lauer? By the way fantastic channel. Power to you guys really good quality journalism. I thought its some kind of conspiracy nut channel with the name "The Real News Network". Pleasantly surprised.

[@williamreid9836]

They had their side and we had ours...let's talk about NYC. I was only concerned about myself. Let's talk about living in England and having to decide where to travel next. .. I am listening...

[@davidfaubion1720]

An alliance twixt two hegemons doth not work toward a sustainable world of of peace, justice, equality and hope. Power in Russia and the US must be quarantined rather than consolidated.

[@StephanBaish]

Why "Part 4/5" in the title? Sounds like 1/5 given the intro...

[@Dawt_Calm]

It means there are 5 segments with Cohen, they discuss various topics. In an RAI interview they talk to various people about multiple subjects and then split the interview up into segments that are more easily digestible. As of right now the 5th segments hasn't been posted yet.

[@bumblebee9337]

The National Guard ended segregation.

[@HoopsKevinski]

He can't seriously think the lack of Russophobia was from "not knowing any". That's like the opposite of how prejudice & xenophobia works. ... Prolly just meant his area wasn't exposed to it.

[@TheShadowfakx]

Should be next ambassador to Russia.

[@iliabeliy4337]

Нет, нет, Стёпа, это твоя судьба!

[@user-ri7vy3qz4j]

Mission impossible

[@Johnnycdrums]

Jay conflating anti-Communism with Racism right out of the box. How sick is that?

[@luiscortez3817]

Rip

[@lisafrench5236]

"What desegregated the south was basketball." Good lord, this guy is nuts. No wonder he is always on Fox. Shameful Paul Jay. Lets negate the people who died fighting for decades before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.

[@gerhard7323]

What did you watch? It wasn't what I watched. He was making an aside there and at no point is he dismissive of segregation more generally talking of an apartheid America. He candidly talks of not being fully aware of it as a child, but that's not the same thing. You seem to be suffering from a bad case of presentism.

[@jannhebrank8410]

makes me sick to hear someone make bullshit false statements

[@sonechka100]

Stephen Cohen and Dmitry Simes are the only two clever and competent american kremlenologists, I know here in Russia. The new generation of american kremlenologists is unfortunayely just ignorant propagandists.