Resistance is everywhere, but everywhere a surprise, especially when the agents of struggle are the colonized, the enslaved, the wretched of the earth. Anticolonial revolts and slave rebellions have often been described by those in power as “eruptions”—volcanic shocks to a system that does not, cannot, see them coming. In Anticolonial Eruptions, Geo Maher diagnoses a paradoxical weakness built right into the foundations of white supremacist power, a colonial blind spot that grows as domination seems more complete.
Geo Maher is an organizer, writer, radical political theorist and Visiting Associate Professor at Vassar College. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Decolonizing Humanities Project at the College of William & Mary, the Hemispheric Institute in New York and the Institute of Social Research at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and has taught previously at Drexel University, U.C. Berkeley, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. He holds a B.A. in Government and Economics from St. Lawrence University, a B.A. Hons. and M.A. in Social and Political Sciences from St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley.
His first book, a history of revolutionary movements in Venezuela entitled WE CREATED CHÁVEZ: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION, was published by Duke University Press in 2013. He recently published a short follow-up on the political dynamics of the post-Chávez era entitled BUILDING THE COMMUNE: RADICAL DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA (Jacobin-Verso, 2016). His third book, DECOLONIZING DIALECTICS, was published in 2017, as the first volume in the Duke University Press book series RADICAL AMÉRICAS, which he co-edits with Bruno Bosteels.
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Thank you for the invitation to listen to this incredible conversation
What a load of hogwash
Excellent broadcast. Definitely need a copy of this author's book.
it must be very nice for the current day slave owners(the bank owners) to have slaves(ALL working people) that are brainwashed to such a degree that they'd never even consider/admit they were in fact slaves….peter joseph and his 3 zeitgeist movies/books are a real epiphany/eye opener about the fundamentals of our world's monetary system and if you're not a bank owner(since they obviously understand this phenomenon) and if you have zero clue that you're/we're ALL in fact slaves…modern day slavery now requires the slaves to also "house and feed themselves"….I've not heard any valid/good arguments against what he explains the entire situation to be so…we are all technically/currently slaves without even knowing or understanding this fact/phenomenon…
Max, you are so awesome!! Thank you!
Wonderful to have some bigot telling us how wonderful the Murdering Venezuelan dictatorship is
Calling it "white supremacy" balkanizes the argument and is completely inaccurate. Poor and marginalized whites are shit on by the same system you proclaim "white supremacy" and there are non white elites entrenched within the system. It's more accurate and helpful to call it neocolonialism, globalism, or even capitalism. Pretty spot on otherwise, it's just terminology but it matters if you're looking for an "inclusive" vibe.
Chris Hedges keeps me motivated when he says we resist not out of hope of winning but because we see it needs to be done. It comes from our spirit. Giving up weakens your spirit. That’s why I don’t give up.
Love the discussion of language, terminology, and dog whistles. Thank you for a thoughtful and inclusive discussion.
Intellectual take on racism is pure bullshit
This show is an intellectual bullshit not helpful for remedy imprisoned black men
Slavery still ongoing. Black men in prisons experience worse conditions than being slaves.
You're a hero to me, Maximilian. Can't tell you how I look up to you as a trans person, and your ever level head. Thanks for being you and doing this
Key issue we don't have an opposition party. Democrats fail us at every turn.
Please get Olufemi O. Taiwo for an interview. His book "Elite Capture, How the Government Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)" is a perfect follow up.
EP Thompson in "Making of the English Working Class" makes strikingly similar points about the attitudes of the British ruling class towards the working class of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain.
A mestizo pointing fingers at colonialists as if his ancestors weren't involved is lol, (and repeating the word "right" after every other sentence doesn't make your bs for profit any more real)
An excellent interview!!! Very nuanced yet remarkably straight forward. Collective action, laser sharp focus on a defense of dignity and shine a light on who benefits from the division Expose what is organized in the dark, Thank you!!!!
Oh and who formed the KKK in America??? = 'chosen tribe' (secret/not so secret), supremacists. … The same people who formed the (Marxist and Communist and Bolsheviks), 'Frankfurt school', where the (ANTI WHITE and utterly RACIST), 'Critical Race Theory' originated out of.
No things are bleak for you we however see this for what it is the death through of a dying society and we’re built for this and have been waiting for this very moment