A talk with Radhika Desai, Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, and discussants Yasin Kaya in Toronto and Gary Porter in Victoria, B.C. Among the many ideas the pandemic has revived for reforming our broken economies, two have dominated. One is the idea of universal basic income and the other is Modern Monetary …
In this international meeting convened by No Cold War, leading analysts from China, the US, Britain, India, Venezuela, Canada and Brazil come together to discuss how to counter the New Cold War. About this Event SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Medea Benjamin (Co-founder, CODEPINK) Wang Wen (Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China) Qiao …
In this talk, co-hosted by the Marxist Education Project and the Geopolitical Economy Research Group, Radhika Desai argues that the new communism of the commons propounded by Badiou, Hardt and Negri, and Zizek (among others) is a 21st century avatar of the Proudhonism that was a perennial obstacle to developing a broad opposition to capital during the 19th and …