From the panel discussion for the release of David Harvey's "The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles" at The People's Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVqPSF4IlfE
Clipped this last night to share here, I’ve probably watched it 20 times since I found it on Thursday
Fr the whole discussion was really good, even the audience questions. I haven’t read or listened to a lot of David Harvey and thought he was always interesting too (hot take I know)
Absolutely loved the passion of the first audience commentary on the need to re-center imperialism.
Also found Harveys takes on China to be surprisingly western chauvinist or something. The way he compares things was surprisingly, I don’t know how to word this, simplistic? It seems symptomatic of academia as I see similar stuff a lot in my uni reading.
The middle guy was voicing the interesting anxiety Western left academia currently has about the breaking of nation-states and therefore consensus. I just read a whole book that was essentially about the same and also downplayed imperialism (as Lenin frames it). It seems very contradictory as it almost feels like they are pining for the very systems of liberal democracy they at the same time critical of.
Fr the whole discussion was really good, even the audience questions. I haven’t read or listened to a lot of David Harvey and thought he was always interesting too (hot take I know)
Absolutely loved the passion of the first audience commentary on the need to re-center imperialism.
Also found Harveys takes on China to be surprisingly western chauvinist or something. The way he compares things was surprisingly, I don’t know how to word this, simplistic? It seems symptomatic of academia as I see similar stuff a lot in my uni reading.
The middle guy was voicing the interesting anxiety Western left academia currently has about the breaking of nation-states and therefore consensus. I just read a whole book that was essentially about the same and also downplayed imperialism (as Lenin frames it). It seems very contradictory as it almost feels like they are pining for the very systems of liberal democracy they at the same time critical of.