Struggle Makes Us Human, Vijay Prashad
Struggle Makes Us Human, Vijay Prashad
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Struggle Makes Us Human
Learning from Movements for Socialism

Author: Vijay Prashad, Frank Barat

Narrator: Shawn K. Jain

Unabridged: 4 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/26/2023


Synopsis

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.

About Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World, and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. He writes regularly for Frontline, the Hindu, Alternet, and BirGun. He is chief editor at LeftWord Books.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

Much-needed uplifting perspectives on building for social needs... Preamble: --This introductory book (interview format) is in some ways an inverse of Vijay’s other recent intro, Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations. Instead of unpacking imperialism's depravities, this......more

Goodreads review by Randall

Economist Utsa Patnaik calculates “the British drained $45 trillion from the Indian people to enrich the United Kingdom.” A straight drain of wealth. “Just India provided 30 percent of the down payment for the Industrial Revolution.” Imagine being taught that on the History Channel instead of intent......more

Essential for budding Marxist organizers. It’s up to us! “We were people; with great difficulty we became human”......more

Goodreads review by Romain

Incredible synthesis of Vijay Prashad views of the world. Having already read multiple books and watched several videos of him, this book is still full of insight and demonstrate the depth of Prashad’s thinking.......more

Goodreads review by jac

short, sharp and hopeful writing on a very broad range of subjects of urgent concern to communists right now. charts a clear vision for struggle based in our interconnected past while working from our very material present. check it out ❣️......more