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Vijay Prashad - Deserving poor, World Hunger, Jean Ziegler, Waste & Capitalism

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of thirty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. He is the Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter and a Columnist for Frontline (India). He is the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CES6TPu4BNk (Opens in a new window)

To the interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTk0clPK2IE (Opens in a new window)

Timeline:  

1:55 (Opens in a new window) - Poverty in #India (Opens in a new window) 

2:22 (Opens in a new window) - Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth) 

4:05 (Opens in a new window) - "The great teacher is the world itself" 

8:56 - Pierre Proudhon - "Property is theft!" https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra.. (Opens in a new window)

14:10 - Hierarchies and the Structur of the Social in Eastern Europe 

15:40 - The Bengal Famine: one of the single most horrific atrocities occurred under British colonial rule (1943/44)  

19:30 - #Tricontinental (Opens in a new window): Institute for Social Research 

24:24 - Carbon Suicide 

26:00 - From concrete to abstract domination #capitalism (Opens in a new window) 

31:14 - The Monster: A dangerous Mask and primitive accumulation 

37:46 - #Imperialism (Opens in a new window) 43:13 - Regime Change: Euphemism 

44:30 - Multipolar World Order #China (Opens in a new window) #Ukrainewar (Opens in a new window) 

52:54 - #Racism (Opens in a new window) 

1:01:31 - Fight on for what? #Selenskyj (Opens in a new window) #Putin (Opens in a new window)

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