yes, it's great. It's a bit unfocused, but that's because it talks about so many interlocking mechanisms of capitalist imperialism and neo colonialism. I actually find that it is more relevant now than when it came out 2 years ago because it specifically goes over a lot of the more subtle myths US media is throwing out there, such as that cooperation with the US military and the NATO hierarchy is consensual, or that the US's "targeted" sanctions don't hurt working class people. It's a bit of a "pop" book I guess in the sense that's meant to be read by anyone who wants to read it but it's not exactly something that you're gonna see people clamoring to read. It doesn't have the academic rigor of doctoral thesis. It doesn't have a bibliography twice as long as the text. Prashad instead cites the sources as he goes, in line, quoting US officials directly in the text, and mentioning what the sources is. To anyone trained to immediately go to the back it might make it look like it's poorly researched but it isn't. It's a lot like Blackshirts and Reds in that respect. It is meant to quickly and reliably convey a sense of urgent dissatisfaction with the present state of things.
I first took interest in Vijay Prashad after I saw an interview where he pushed back on someone telling him "China pollutes more than the US" by pointing out several important things that gets missed
China has quadruple the population of the US
China has a smaller per capita carbon footprint
Carbon footprints are an incomplete measure of popllution since it doesn't take into account things like the US corporations and the US military polluting outside of US borders.
China produces most of the goods consumed in the imperial core, and if the imperial core countries actually produced their own commodities, they would have a much larger carbon footprint.
I found his eloquence in dismantling the narrative to be very powerful and decided to start reading his works after that.
darker nations is next on my list. Right now I'm reading a book called "Wilmington's Lie" which is about a violent coup carried out in 1898 by white supremacists against black elected officials in Wilmington, North Carolina
yes, it's great. It's a bit unfocused, but that's because it talks about so many interlocking mechanisms of capitalist imperialism and neo colonialism. I actually find that it is more relevant now than when it came out 2 years ago because it specifically goes over a lot of the more subtle myths US media is throwing out there, such as that cooperation with the US military and the NATO hierarchy is consensual, or that the US's "targeted" sanctions don't hurt working class people. It's a bit of a "pop" book I guess in the sense that's meant to be read by anyone who wants to read it but it's not exactly something that you're gonna see people clamoring to read. It doesn't have the academic rigor of doctoral thesis. It doesn't have a bibliography twice as long as the text. Prashad instead cites the sources as he goes, in line, quoting US officials directly in the text, and mentioning what the sources is. To anyone trained to immediately go to the back it might make it look like it's poorly researched but it isn't. It's a lot like Blackshirts and Reds in that respect. It is meant to quickly and reliably convey a sense of urgent dissatisfaction with the present state of things.
I first took interest in Vijay Prashad after I saw an interview where he pushed back on someone telling him "China pollutes more than the US" by pointing out several important things that gets missed
China has quadruple the population of the US
China has a smaller per capita carbon footprint
Carbon footprints are an incomplete measure of popllution since it doesn't take into account things like the US corporations and the US military polluting outside of US borders.
China produces most of the goods consumed in the imperial core, and if the imperial core countries actually produced their own commodities, they would have a much larger carbon footprint.
I found his eloquence in dismantling the narrative to be very powerful and decided to start reading his works after that.
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darker nations is next on my list. Right now I'm reading a book called "Wilmington's Lie" which is about a violent coup carried out in 1898 by white supremacists against black elected officials in Wilmington, North Carolina