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Politics Podcast | Ep 8 "Reflections on an Imploding Empire"
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In 1964, Malcolm X wrote, “There is no system more corrupt than a system that represents itself as the example of freedom, the example of democracy, and can go all over this earth telling other people how to straighten out their house when you have citizens of this country who have to use bullets if they want to cast ballots.” Fifty-seven years later, these words remain true. - Guantanamo is still open; the American drone program continues to flourish, anti-black and anti-Muslim bigotry and violence remain endemic. Today we talk about the foundations of the American empire, imperialism, and its relationship to American violence. We use the recent Biden inauguration as a lens to talk about three issues— failure of political language, white supremacy as a tool of political conquest and control, and limit of representative politics. Joining us today to discuss his essay “Reflections on an imploding empire,” which appeared in the journal Africa is a country is Professor Russell Rickford, Prof Rickford is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. He specializes in African-American political culture after World War II, the Black Radical Tradition, and transnational social movements. He is the author of We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination, and is currently working on a book about Guyana and African American radical politics in the 1970s.” Read the essay here: https://africasacountry.com/2021/01/reflections-on-an-imploding-empire Our last episode here: https://soundcloud.com/user-256643655/politics-podcast-ep-7-conversation-with-kshama-sawant?in=user-256643655/sets/politics-podcat
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In 1964, Malcolm X wrote, “There is no system more corrupt than a system that represents itself as the example of freedom, the example of democracy, and can go all over this earth telling other people how to straighten out their house when you have citizens of this country who have to use bullets if they want to cast ballots.” Fifty-seven years later, these words remain true. - Guantanamo is still open; the American drone program continues to flourish, anti-black and anti-Muslim bigotry and violence remain endemic. Today we talk about the foundations of the American empire, imperialism, and its relationship to American violence. We use the recent Biden inauguration as a lens to talk about three issues— failure of political language, white supremacy as a tool of political conquest and control, and limit of representative politics. Joining us today to discuss his essay “Reflections on an imploding empire,” which appeared in the journal Africa is a country is Professor Russell Rickford, Prof Rickford is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. He specializes in African-American political culture after World War II, the Black Radical Tradition, and transnational social movements. He is the author of We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination, and is currently working on a book about Guyana and African American radical politics in the 1970s.” Read the essay here: https://africasacountry.com/2021/01/reflections-on-an-imploding-empire Our last episode here: https://soundcloud.com/user-256643655/politics-podcast-ep-7-conversation-with-kshama-sawant?in=user-256643655/sets/politics-podcat
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