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Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism

Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism

by Vijay Prashad, Frank Barat
Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism

Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism

by Vijay Prashad, Frank Barat

Overview

An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars.

Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organizer Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay Prashad shows that the path toward hope and liberation lies in looking closely at myriad, under covered struggles being waged all across the world by workers in countries such as India, Kenya, Peru, Tunisia, and Argentina. A marvelously global but grassroots perspective.

Prashad also examines pressing 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781642596908
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 05/31/2022
Pages: 150
Sales rank: 971,481
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The System as It Is

Zigs and Zags But Mostly Zags 1

The Capitalist Use of Crisis 11

Resistance and Rebellion 21

Their Values and Ours 25

The Real Meaning of Unemployment 37

Part 2 Struggle Makes Us Human

History Is a Series of Experiments 45

The Mechanics of Imperialism 57

Transition to the Future 67

The Third World Was a Project, Not a Place 73

The Long Effect of the Fall of the Soviet Union 81

Their Violence and Ours 95

Zambia Is Not So Far Away 101

Confidence Comes from Building Movements 107

Part 3 Toward Beauty

The Future Is Here 115

The Future Will Contain What You Put into It Now 127

Art Breathes Life into The World 143

For the Justice of It 149

Utopia Is Not a Place but a Project 153

Afterword 157

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