This week's show is drawn from an interview with Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, on many of the questions of the revolution, questions that are now being asked and debated: What's the nature of society? Who's responsible for all the horrors in the world? How do we change it? And what are we going to do in the new world?
"What Future for Our Youth - A Dialogue Between Carl Dix and Cornel West"
Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party and Cornel West, Public Intellectual, Princeton University, New York Theological Seminary, two of the most radical public intellectuals in the US today discuss "In the Age of Obama...Police Terror, Incarceration, No Jobs, Mis-education: What Future for Our Youth" to an audience of almost two thousand at UC Berkeley. Program consists of excerpts from the speeches delivered by both Dix and West as well as a sampling of the question and answer period with the audience.
Professor Dennis Loo, Cal Poly Pomona, talks about the nature of the State and how it functions in Capitalist Society, arguing that the defining characteristic of the State is the monopolization on the legitimate use of force. Loo then explores the character of the modern imperial State, its embrace of the so-called War on Terror and what it means for those who want to change the world.
EXCELLENT talk on China with historical summary and instructive vignettes, some humour and a Q&A session, 1 hour 15 minutes, edited, compressed and adapted for radio by (please appreciate the work by donating for a non-profit, political-educational and lectures FM radio station)
Tariq Ali born 21 October 1943, is a British Pakistani military historian, intellectual, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator.