Struggle Is What Makes Us Human

Learning from Movements for Socialism

Struggle Is What Makes Us Human
Vijay Prashad, Frank Barat
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14 Jul 2022 US
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9781642596908
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Two brilliant and influential minds look beyond capitalism, and chart a roadmap for a planet ravaged by pandemics, a climate crisis, and wars. Frank Barat, who has co-authored books with such luminaries as Angela Davis and Noam Chomsky, sits down with renowned author and academic Vijay Prashad, to explore topics such as debt cancellation, a wealth tax, austerity, the pandemic, the arms industry, the climate crisis, socialism, working-class social movements and much more. Barat and Prashad take an honest look at the challenges involved in overcoming the grip the neoliberal world order has on the planet; and the ability of the wealthy elite to continue to carry out policies that are destroying the lives of millions. Yet, they don' t leave the reader in despair. Barat and Prashad, masterfully show us a path towards hope and liberation by highlighting the often ignored worker' s struggles and victories that are taking place around the world in countries such as: India, Kenya, Peru, Tunisia, and Argentina.
"Vijay Prashad' s remarkable work has for years been an incomparable source of information and understanding about the Global South, while also providing incisive analysis of major developments of world affairs. " -Noam Chomsky "An essential, brilliant revolutionary post pandemic conversation and primer about everything that matters and how we can move from the devastation of capitalism to a living breathing working socialism. Informative and profoundly inspirational. " -V(formerly Eve Ensler), The Vagina Monologues and The Apology "Struggle Makes Us Human is an impassioned and studied case for socialism. In the face of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unrealized promise of the New International Economic Order, and the rupture between intellectual and grounded struggle, socialism remains as necessary and possible as ever. Vijay Prashad takes readers on an intimate journey across the world and through history to introduce us to thinkers, workers, revolutionaries, and martyrs whose example offers glimpses of a horizon that remains within our reach. "-Noura Erakat "Vijay Prashad is our own Frantz Fanon. His writing of protest is always tinged with the beauty of hope. " -Amitava Kumar "Vijay Prashad recalls a past without which it is impossible to understand the present. " -Tariq Ali "Like his hero Eduardo Galeano, Vijay Prashad makes the telling of the truth lovable; not an easy trick to pull off, he does it effortlessly. " -Roger Waters
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). Frank Barat is a human rights activist and author. He was the coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine and is now the president of the Palestine Legal Action Network. His books include Gaza in Crisis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle and We Still Here.
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ISBN-13: 9781642596908
Published: 14 Jul 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 190mm
Width: 133mm
Pages: 150

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