From Trump in the U.S. to Bolsonaro in Brazil, ordinary people in large democracies are discontented and shifting right, what can progressives do about it? Cornel West in conversation with Sharmini Peries
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Nothing new here but Cornell West in Socialist mode."The imperial meltdown in the American Empire" you got to give him his props he is a funny wordsmith. Mr. West and Miz Peries call themselves progressives here, when in fact they are extreme left wing democrats. It sounds much nicer to call themselves progressives. Awwwwwww….. .
There were 3 major leaders in the world in WWII.
One was an authoritarian right-wing fascist.
One was an authoritarian communist power-monger.
One was a democratic leader fighting for the working class.
2 are now in the dirt each autocrat belongs along with their evil empire. 1 is now known as one of the greatest man ever lived and his country now is on top of the world. We need more FDRs and less Hitlers and Stalins…
Admiro a la gente inteligente..🏃♀️🖤🖤❤
You can watch a years worth of the mainstream news and not get as much truth as this 9 minute video.
No disrespect to Dr. West but he has to tone down his message. Only those of us with more than a high school can understand the brother
I am poor and disappointed he didn’t do anything to speak up against trump when it mattered and helped fragment the left .
There was not a single sentence uttered by this bolshevik wannabe, that was not a shop-worn cliche of "revolutionary" talk. The interviewer should try to do some interviewing, just for appearances sake, instead of offering her interviewee an extended massage. Nauseating.
I could listen to Dr. Cornel West all day long. This man is brilliant.
Lmao! What fools!
Any perspectives other than theirs is evil!😂
A strong moral consistency tied to political courage
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Everything Cornel West said was just meaningless and nonsense, just leftist drivel. The shift come from a cause and the shift is the effect. The progressive are losing because the left has gone too far left. Progressives are no longer progressives, they are socialists and communists. The centrist majority are the ones that decide which way the country goes. Under Obama the push was too far left, us centrists do no not want socialism, we do not want communism, we do not want identity politics nonsense. We decide which way the country goes, since there was such as push to the left, the effect is moving to the right. Truth is we did not move that far to the right, the left's shift to the far left has disassociated them with what is left, what is center, and what is right. Calling centrists far right is proof of this.
its less about a Shift Right ,,,, its more about a REJECTION OF BEING THE SLAVES OF THE CORPORATE GLOBALISTS
It just feels like the left keeps getting stabbed in the back by the people who claim to be on the left. We win but everyone with a brain knows it will be overturned some day in the future.
Like the dems leading the liberal cause today (new green policies, anti corruption and etc) but they all know they won't go into law. When the controlled the whole of government, they didn't even try to pass any of these laws (many are in power today).
We will fight for community. That's what we mean when we raise fists! We were grown to disarm Fascists. All the Fash bound 2 lose. We doing this.
I hope nobody talks about right wing think tanks astroturfing.
Lots of talk and very little substance. Plus, way off the stated topic.
To compare bolsonaro with Trump is a mistake. I am older than you are Cornell and I've been opposing War racism and economic elitism longer than you have. I may being picky here but you dress like you were a f**** pimp. Trump is definitely not all good but he is trying to get us out of wars and better relations with Russia what could be wrong with that. I think it's time the left took notice and did the one thing that might help us all. Stop all wars.
Israel occupied by whom. He's a putz. Jews can’t colonize Palestine because you can't colonize colonizers. The Muslim population in Israel is a foreign colonist population. The indigenous Jewish population can resettle its own country, but it can’t colonize it.
Muslims invaded, conquered and settled Israel. They forced their language and laws on the population. That's the definition of colonialism. You can't colonize and then complain that you're being colonized when the natives take back the power that you stole from them.
There are Muslims in Israel for the same reason that there are Muslims in India. They are the remnants of a Muslim colonial regime that displaced and oppressed the indigenous non-Muslim population.
There are no serious historical arguments to be made against any of this..
Maybe it's time to revolt..ussofa needs a revolution!
The shift is because people got a good whiff of that stinking turd that the left offers up and rejects it. That is what is happening….the unified global left over played it's hand. People want to be left alone and allowed to be themselves with people they have common cause with.
I'm from Argentina and I really like this guy. The US need more like him.
Oh and I love when he refers to people as "brothers"
Dr. Cornel West is one of the greatest minds of our time and possesses a warm compassionate heart.
I think that people are turning away from the left because of Identity politics. Identity politics is being exported from the wealthy countries to the poor countries, this I believe turns the poor against the left because they still live a more traditional conservative family life. Also we see rich western leftist trying to control speech and though ex. Canada, If the left wing parties of the third world would ignore western leftists and return to classical marxism then none of this would be happening. But because the west has embraced identity politics instead of classical marxism and exporting this model to the third world we find ourselves in this situation.
I normally want to love what Cornell West has to say. I don't always get satisfaction, though. Well, I haven't listened to this yet. Maybe he will make some sense this time.
What can "progressives" do about it? Accept that the world needs balance and not an unending, non-stop leftward "progression"- that's what cancers do..
Talking about Class War and Human Supremacy are the most important topics and thankfully Cornell West is going there!