WATCH: Professor Ellen Meiksins Wood: The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire [2008]
"The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire" lecture was given by Prof. Ellen Meiksins Wood, Professor Emerita of Political Science at York University.
"The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire" lecture was given by Prof. Ellen Meiksins Wood, Professor Emerita of Political Science at York University.
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"Analysts expect the global debt-for-nature swaps market to eventually exceed $800 billion."
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Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends. He is the author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire.
"Fear makes thinking harder, yet there is an urgent need to think and to question every aspect of our current situation. The philosopher, which Agamben truly embodies, is a figure that must be heeded."
"...the class hierarchy is itself continuously reimposed and reiterated, but under capital instead of religion, while pretending to uplift the working class and neutralise the abuse and injustice."
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"In 1950, Ellul finished his manuscript La Technique ou l'enjeu du siècle (The Technological Society), his seminal analysis of the way technology shapes every aspect of society. The Betrayal by Technology is one of the very few existing filmed recordings of Jacques Ellul speaking."
"If today a government - in Italy as elsewhere - really wants to move in a different direction from the one that is being sought everywhere to impose, it is above all the money/credit/debt system that it must resolutely question as a system of government."
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Pacifism as Pathology, Social Engineering
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"Périot starts a dialogue between the past and the present by confronting the future of the revolution that has been laid to rest by youthful cynicism, censorship and the bourgeois constructs of modernity."