I suggest you avoid apologizing for hosting a theoretical discussion. For some of us, this is the best type of program and so one that is poorly served by concerns that some might find it boring. You let your audience know the content of the episode; they can take it or leave it as they see fit.
@@drakekoefoed1642 the instructions for the fire extinguisher are also theory. so the question isn't whether we should study or not but what path will take us the furthest (and this question itself requires theory, if we are indecisive choosing between the fire extinguisher and the thermodynamics textbook this is just as useless, and taking a random guess is better, but not by much). sadly our situation is much more complicated than this example, but luckily we have a bit more time, too.
An outstanding series about the history and the meaning of the 'Deep State'. Thank you very much to all for this amazing opportunity to learn, in depth, about this important issue! Keep up, Ben, Aaron and Seamus, with your brilliant work!
Vijay Prashad talks about this as the preponderant state...and expounds on the idea that studying political science at any us institution has inherent bias of us imperial hegemony, it’s something that is ingrained into scholarship, so congrats to Aaron for staying critical in this thinking.
Educational and interesting, clearly and comprehensibly well described. Important knowledges for a knowledge-hungry person like me. Praise to Aaron also to Multipolarista for excellent political contents.
Keep up the wonderful work, Ben, you've been a lighthouse in this f... ed up world. Thank you for all the knowledge we obtained through this series and nevermind the smears from childish "patriotic socialists" and turds of the same kind. Best regards to you and your guests.
I didnt first experience US Imperialism from offshore or abroad, but from a segregated elementary school in Casa Blanca, California, whose paramount interest was not education, but keeping us in the condition of cheap labor. My communitys "special treatment" also included being stereotyped viciously by the Riverside Daily Press, being flooded with cops willing to harrass or bash us at will, having our vote gerrymandered into worthlessness, and in the 1920s being "repatriated" to Mexico in trainloads whether citizens or not. Later If I showed any intelligence at Fresno High, accusations of lying or "faking it." That shit can give one PTSD.
Got around to this today. Really good. When you mix theory this much with history and political practice I think it gets easy to follow and not at all boring. Quite the opposite, Thx a lot for your hard work!
I appreciate your intellectual rigour. I don't watch for entertainment but to get a further grounding in the complexities of the system we inhabit and the historical perspectives that got us here. Hopefully a way out of this quagmire can be traversed before it's too late by learning what not to do from the past, synthesising what works and finding the common ground and will to move forward. Masculine posturing, ad hominem, rigid ideology and hurt pride must be put aside in order to disseminate the facts capable of breaking through the walls of propaganda and censorship many are not even aware of. Thank you for your valuable contributions
Perhaps naming the series with Part# and naming the title same can help people understand that each discussion is a series of whole subject matter with continuity. Excellent work as always Ben and your guest panel. Thank you. 🙏
I think it would be good to go even deeper into the roots of imperialism and all kinds of domination. The main cause is that psychopaths are obsessed with power and generally end in a position of power. Search "political ponerology". Psychopaths search for domination and control, they don't have scruples and lack empathy. So in order to understand imperialism or other feudalisms, we need to understand the leaders and how psychopaths work and act. Kings, mafia godfathers, warlords, CEOs, businessman, etc ... the ones with less scruples and empathy generally reach position of power and then tend to expand and consolidate that power, without consideration to others. It's like a compulsive obsession. If you consider the behavior of a clinical psychopath toward other people, it's exactly how US empire behaves toward other countries. If there's a realism, it's the reality of the psychopathy of the people who are in control economically and politically.
It might even be genetically inherented in some Europeans if you look at their long history even since medieval times. It's always been divide and conquer to seek the best mate and most resources
It's caused a chain reaction, the Roman's invaded the middle east, then the middle east invaded Spain, then Spain invaded central and south america. This tradition has caused a battle for privilege.
@@israelvaldivia2686 I don't think so. Europeans just had a better technology and better strategic, scientific knowledge. So the psychopathic rulers had better means to achieve domination. I think you can find the same rate of psychopaths in any ethnicity. Some stats say they are between 1% and 5% of population.
@@JoJo-vg8dz yes, you're right there are physcopaths everywhere and usually power hungry but with European elites it's a whole other kind of evil and them being more advanced in scientific improvement is more of a direct result of them being ultra competitive and selfish. They weren't just born more knowledgeable or intellectual, there has to be a purpose for it and that purpose is them wanting to beat everyone out off the competition. In Europe the land is more flat and that is the reason tribes used to compete for resources or women so they inherent those genes more than other tribes where the natural geography separates them. So yes they are everywhere not just Europe but that's the reason I believe European elites are more guilty of having a long history of taking advantage of those who are not as advanced.
There is so much to read when it comes to theoretical traditions / schools, so it's very useful that all 3 of you are able to place the economic exploitation of Haiti and other lower-income states in the imperial core / periphery framework with which I have passing familiarity.
Loved it & the warning at the start was unwarranted this is just as interesting & brilliant Ur channel is my favourite by far thanks for sharing ur work w the world & for choosing the honourable over $ which is what u forgo when u don’t choose far right conspiracies or neoliberal apologetics
XLNT Series. Pray that ALL Nationalists (U.S. +abroad) pay attention and educate themselves. Sidebar: synced up mic volumes would very much enhance the listening experience. A bit distracting to have to adjust each panelist's volume on this end. 🙏☮️⚖️
You are all excellent!! I live in Guatemala since 18 years, and understand you well. It is good to hear such intelligent conversation about how the US has put Latin America the way it is - it is all for the benefit of the US and the poverty will remain as long as this is not changed. Hopefully the left wave will remain and allow for something different. We have to have hope.
Mainly for the benefit of the U.S. ruling class and upper classes. I'm from California and my 67 year old mother has been a hard-working teacher all these years but can't afford a home, barely makes ends meet, plus still paying off student debt. To afford a home and decent standard of living around here you have to inherit, work in a lucrative industry, be married with two good incomes, that kind of thing. So there are a ton of unhappy marriages based on the convenience of combining finances.
Hi guys, interesting topic. Regarding dependency theory, however, i think there are several theoretical problems which could be explored. The reliance on the idea of monopoly capital (criticised by Shaikh), unequal exchange of value understood as a physical substance, superexploitation of labor, and underconsumptionism, are all concepts with serious difficulties. I would recommend the work of Astarita but i don't think it's been translated to English.
Thank you. That's the thing missing from this series. EU countries get to pat themselves on the back for being more progressive than the U.S. when the reality is filled with neo-colonialist projects and continued unequal relations. Business as usual.
Great detail. Postcolonialism goes into detail about this with the Metropole-Colony dichotomy. The Americas never really stepped out of that arrangement with the USA at the helm.
Please equalize sound levels between your microphones! It's just impossible to listen when you need to hold your volume knob in fear to go deaf after being forced to raise the volume to the maximum.
33:50 "The liberals are in denial about the way that democracy and liberalism are inextricable from Imperialism. That's one of the key defining characteristics of liberals - the denial of imperialism, the coercion, the violence, the expropriation that is a prerequisite for the 'liberal project.' Whereas the historical materialists put this right at the center of their analysis." nice.
Two factors also to consider about the rise of imperialism in the U.S. are the large scale immigration into the country from Europe and also the movement of the population into cities from the countryside.
@@lefty4letty llc...is a person with all your rights, but none of your pesky responsibilities. ...and a person can bankrupt an llc to make his bank account fat. i call this the Trump (or Bezos) business model. "Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world" -Tyrell Wellick (same principle) the llc grants impunity for damages, and profit can be funneled wherever you want.
Even in the academic world, greed and power subverts our "better angels". In a nutshell , greed is the most simplistic, yet truthful dynamic in ALL human interactions, but it is also egregiously so when discussing America's behavior on the World Stage. We could easily be characterized as "carrying a big stick" in one hand, and a white cane in the other.
I'm enjoying the content a lot! But please, couldn't you arrange this playlist so that it saves and plays sequentially without me having to go out, sorry chronologically, scroll down, count the episodes up, blah blah blah!? Is that technically difficult? It would eg enable me to share the entire playlist.
I would suggest that the US has been an imperialist hegemon since the founding of the republic, first a regional hegemon, then after 1945 an aspiring global hegemon.
One aspect that was left out to some degree in this very interesting debate is the interimperialist colonialism or system of dominance as it exists in the EU for example. While the countries in the EU are mostly ex or current imperialist powers, you can see how the strongest use the same relation of dependance with the weaker as you say about the global south. And this isn't new either. Alvaro Cunhal, a very proiminent communist and portuguese intelectual said of Portugal during fascism that it had the caracheteristic of being simultaniously a colonizer and colonized (at the time by the British).
Germany, Britain and France are a classic example. Germany has Eastern Europe, mostly the Balkans, while being legally occupied by the US. Britain has some islands, former colonies. While being given a script to follow from Washington DC. Neither Britain nor Germany have an independent foreign policy, and can do nothing without the US approval. And France has Francafrique. But is also a colony of America. From the 3, France has the most sovereign foreign policy, but it's increasingly less significant on the world stage.
Multipolar world means global democracy, unipolar world means global autocracy, I thought that USA stood for democracy worldwide, why USA is opposing global democracy? USA should happily give up its hegemony for the multipolar world which comprise and represent the entire world population not just the 15 percentage population in the collective west....
Multipolar world means global autonomy. If you look at the definition of Multipolar, it defines as multiple centers of power, which is exactly what autonomy is.
@@niconico2312 at least in multipolar world people from different countries can let their voice be heard , unipolar world is only USA ordering and bullying other countries like a true autocrat would do....
@@mna7308 What? No. Multipolar doesn't make the world democratic or autocratic. We still got monarchies like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar that censors their people. In a Multipolar world, all types of government will be allowed to exist as multiple centers of power, autonomy.
@@niconico2312 and in unipolar saudi , uae are given weapons by USA and nobody stops it ....you know USA is responsible directly or indirectly in many wars happening around the world, this is called guilt by association and multipolar world USA will answer while in unipolar it gets free pass for it's atrocities like arming dictatorship like Saudi, Iraq and Afghanistan
To understand it best -- read Antonio Gramsci for Hegemony; and Lenin for imperialism, Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism. Everything else is noise.
They were competing powers. Carthage in the First Punic War had the larger empire, in the Second, Carthage had a slightly larger empire and by the Third Punic War, Rome was a burgeoning Mediterranean empire while Carthage was reduced to a city-state before Rome annihilated Carthage for good.
I really like this series - it has clarified a great deal and the historical perspective is invaluable. However, this installment is a miss for me. Not because it concerns theory, but because the theories seem so poorly explained and connected. Better when Aaron speaks or answers direct questions, but when you guys talk it's often disjointed and uninstructive, or worse, wastes time indulging in scoring points against John Bolton - it's okay, we know he's a bad guy. I can't say that I have a better grasp on US Imperialism now than before I watched this, though I would like to. Please let Aaron do more of the talking next time.
This is complex information an I find if I take notes (stop go back and write points down) I can take more time to absorb what is said. I found everything quite clear doing this from all 3 participants and not disjointed at all. The John Bolton segment was relevant in that it shows the brazenness of the apparatus and those wielding it. Almost saying "yeah and what are ya gonna do about it?" to those who are even aware of it, and a complete disregard of the many lives impacted by these heinous activities, oblivious to the why's and wherefores of their own situations
To me the reason to why there are empires is similar to why there are monopolies. There is always the fear of being dominated by an other; therefore, if one has power, and wants to keep that power, one must use that power to dominate others first. A world championship boxer wants to become so powerful that he can take on any and all challengers.
Good analogy, but I think one thing needs to be pointed out. If the champion boxer trains harder than everyone else, for example, then more power to him. But in the case of imperialism, this boxer is doing a Tonya Harding on his opponents - injuring them outside the ring. That's not cool...
Another alternative is changing the paradigm completely. Competition and domination are replaced by other values more conducive to living in harmony and cooperation without the need to exert control over others
@@katalinkiss120 That would be the logical thing to do. The problem is that the ruling elite won't allow the People to change to this alternative. Just see how the billionaires use non-violent - but coercive - tactics to subjugate unionization efforts at Amazon, Starbucks, and Chipotle. If they won't even give us something simple like that, then what makes you think they'll allow us to change the entire system?
@@katalinkiss120 Isn't it astounding, we have these oh-so-miraculous brains (I'm having doubts on this) but choose the most destructive values we can find on the list and worship them on a pedestal. I was just pointing out elsewhere how matriarchal societies tend towards more peaceful, egalitarian relations and spiritualities that honor nature etc. So if women finally stop sipping on that patriarchy juice and step up to the power plate, maybe we'll have a shot at saving the world. ^_^
thank you for a great discussion! not boring @ all for this non-academic, no-memory-havin' idiot. in a perfect world Ben Norton & Michael Brooks would've joined forces.
I think hegemony, at least according to Gramsci, refers specifically to the use of cultural influence as a tool for domination, as opposed to relying only on the use of force. For example in the early colonial days they would use religious indoctrination , like the missionaries converting people in africa/ south America to christianity. Today they use woke ideology, femminism, hollywood, western pop culture etc..
Speak to the narrative that is the acceptable mythology, because the truth is a path were the accepted reality is the average of popular education whose mean is a thousand years behind at times, a place where historical perspective destroys the present reality that we are coming to understand.
there are "leeches" attached to these videos that cause 'hiccups' in specific functions. CIA, FBI, NSA...your comments are being filed somewhere. don't get scared, but don't be ignorant, either. "First, they came for..."
when you talk about the Nyet means nyet. You read an article that says "a war that could force Russia to intervene in Ukriane" Okay, but how exactly does Ukraine have such bad troubles that moscow is FORCED to intervene? Moscow moved those people to Ukraine during stalin's era. Nobody forces anyone to join a war. If Russia joins this war, it means that Russia is telling Ukraine and the people what they can and cant do, and what international agreements they can abide by...... yes, so Russia here is the imperialist, when they just randomnly get to tell Ukraine what to do.... and Russia btw has a long history of causing problems on the border, and then ooopsie daisy, walking their military to settle the disputes and steal land. . Russia/Ukraine is the exact same thing as Israel/Gaza. Israel wants land, they wait until gaza screws up, then they go take the land, its that simple. Russia doesn't get to tell Ukraine what to do. They are a different country. When Russia tells Ukraine what to do, thats imperialism. And Ukraine has had 100 years of direct Russian imperialism, and it was not great times in Ukraine when Russia starved 7 million Ukrainians. REMEMBER THE HOLODOMOR
I suggest you avoid apologizing for hosting a theoretical discussion. For some of us, this is the best type of program and so one that is poorly served by concerns that some might find it boring. You let your audience know the content of the episode; they can take it or leave it as they see fit.
the trouble with theory is if you study thermodynamics while your house is on fire.
@@drakekoefoed1642 the instructions for the fire extinguisher are also theory. so the question isn't whether we should study or not but what path will take us the furthest (and this question itself requires theory, if we are indecisive choosing between the fire extinguisher and the thermodynamics textbook this is just as useless, and taking a random guess is better, but not by much). sadly our situation is much more complicated than this example, but luckily we have a bit more time, too.
Knowledge is power!
@@drakekoefoed1642 posting youtube comments would be trying to light a cigarette then i guess
@@drakekoefoed1642 If your ship is caught in a storm, it is useful to know your coordinates.
An outstanding series about the history and the meaning of the 'Deep State'. Thank you very much to all for this amazing opportunity to learn, in depth, about this important issue! Keep up, Ben, Aaron and Seamus, with your brilliant work!
I second that. Thank you so much to all involved.
Vijay Prashad talks about this as the preponderant state...and expounds on the idea that studying political science at any us institution has inherent bias of us imperial hegemony, it’s something that is ingrained into scholarship, so congrats to Aaron for staying critical in this thinking.
Listening to you guys, such diligent and knowledgeable young people, gives hope for the future of humanity.
You could never be boring Ben. Fantastic presentations and your are my favourite! 😊
Thank you Aaron and Seamus. Thank you Ben, appreciated.
Great series. Very informative, even for those of us who have been paying attention.
still my favorite series; i always look forward to hearing from the three of you. amazing input and insight, pls keep it going
You're really knocking it out of the park with this series man, thank you all so much.
Thank you Ben Norton!! Awesome Discussion!!🙏🙏👏👏🤗🤗
Excellent! Need to listen on repeat to this.
Educational and interesting,
clearly and comprehensibly well described.
Important knowledges for a knowledge-hungry person like me. Praise to Aaron also to Multipolarista for excellent political contents.
I just finished reading American Exception. Thank you Aaron for a masterful work. Loved it. And thanks to all for your much appreciated podcasts.
Keep up the wonderful work, Ben, you've been a lighthouse in this f... ed up world. Thank you for all the knowledge we obtained through this series and nevermind the smears from childish "patriotic socialists" and turds of the same kind. Best regards to you and your guests.
That guy only wants clout attacking other YTers. He gives communism a bad name, he is only in it for himself.
I didnt first experience US Imperialism from offshore or abroad, but from a segregated elementary school in Casa Blanca, California, whose paramount interest was not education, but keeping us in the condition of cheap labor. My communitys "special treatment" also included being stereotyped viciously by the Riverside Daily Press, being flooded with cops willing to harrass or bash us at will, having our vote gerrymandered into worthlessness, and in the 1920s being "repatriated" to Mexico in trainloads whether citizens or not. Later If I showed any intelligence at Fresno High, accusations of lying or "faking it." That shit can give one PTSD.
Thanks!
Got around to this today. Really good. When you mix theory this much with history and political practice I think it gets easy to follow and not at all boring. Quite the opposite, Thx a lot for your hard work!
When people get hit by the worst condition known to man, "greed" they will do anything to get power, even kill their siblings.
i've yet to watch. i usually watch these at night. the monotone voice & relaxed speech pattern of all 3 is relaxing.
@Oliver266 this is real wokeism. i bet it works even by osmosis
Ben, Monotone? Maybe it's your headset?
Thank you all for such a good discussion ❤
I hope that plenty of your viewers are really learning from your work.. Thank you.
I appreciate your intellectual rigour. I don't watch for entertainment but to get a further grounding in the complexities of the system we inhabit and the historical perspectives that got us here. Hopefully a way out of this quagmire can be traversed before it's too late by learning what not to do from the past, synthesising what works and finding the common ground and will to move forward. Masculine posturing, ad hominem, rigid ideology and hurt pride must be put aside in order to disseminate the facts capable of breaking through the walls of propaganda and censorship many are not even aware of. Thank you for your valuable contributions
Great serious just followed A. Good from the Chapo and I'm loving my relearning of America history
Perhaps naming the series with Part# and naming the title same can help people understand that each discussion is a series of whole subject matter with continuity.
Excellent work as always Ben and your guest panel.
Thank you. 🙏
Great suggestion✊ Thanks for bringing it up.
Thank you for providing us with a theoretical basis for our belief in multipolarity.
Truly terrific to listen to! Wow!
Great to see all this content!
I think it would be good to go even deeper into the roots of imperialism and all kinds of domination.
The main cause is that psychopaths are obsessed with power and generally end in a position of power.
Search "political ponerology".
Psychopaths search for domination and control, they don't have scruples and lack empathy.
So in order to understand imperialism or other feudalisms, we need to understand the leaders and how psychopaths work and act.
Kings, mafia godfathers, warlords, CEOs, businessman, etc ... the ones with less scruples and empathy generally reach position of power and then tend to expand and consolidate that power, without consideration to others.
It's like a compulsive obsession.
If you consider the behavior of a clinical psychopath toward other people, it's exactly how US empire behaves toward other countries.
If there's a realism, it's the reality of the psychopathy of the people who are in control economically and politically.
It might even be genetically inherented in some Europeans if you look at their long history even since medieval times. It's always been divide and conquer to seek the best mate and most resources
It's caused a chain reaction, the Roman's invaded the middle east, then the middle east invaded Spain, then Spain invaded central and south america. This tradition has caused a battle for privilege.
@@israelvaldivia2686 I don't think so.
Europeans just had a better technology and better strategic, scientific knowledge.
So the psychopathic rulers had better means to achieve domination.
I think you can find the same rate of psychopaths in any ethnicity.
Some stats say they are between 1% and 5% of population.
@@JoJo-vg8dz yes, you're right there are physcopaths everywhere and usually power hungry but with European elites it's a whole other kind of evil and them being more advanced in scientific improvement is more of a direct result of them being ultra competitive and selfish. They weren't just born more knowledgeable or intellectual, there has to be a purpose for it and that purpose is them wanting to beat everyone out off the competition. In Europe the land is more flat and that is the reason tribes used to compete for resources or women so they inherent those genes more than other tribes where the natural geography separates them. So yes they are everywhere not just Europe but that's the reason I believe European elites are more guilty of having a long history of taking advantage of those who are not as advanced.
@@JoJo-vg8dz
...and they always get to write the history books.
There is so much to read when it comes to theoretical traditions / schools, so it's very useful that all 3 of you are able to place the economic exploitation of Haiti and other lower-income states in the imperial core / periphery framework with which I have passing familiarity.
Great episode, great guest
Excellent video!!! Keep up the great work!!
Loved it & the warning at the start was unwarranted this is just as interesting & brilliant
Ur channel is my favourite by far thanks for sharing ur work w the world & for choosing the honourable over $ which is what u forgo when u don’t choose far right conspiracies or neoliberal apologetics
Respect you all for sharing great insights and surfacing the truths.
My ptofessor. Keep on excelling Ben
This is really good breakdown Ben. Thanks.
This is the video that sold me on buying Aaron's book
Hi guys
I'm so happy that young people
Started to politic
Do not giving up
Excellent discussion. Thanks
XLNT Series. Pray that ALL Nationalists (U.S. +abroad) pay attention and educate themselves. Sidebar: synced up mic volumes would very much enhance the listening experience. A bit distracting to have to adjust each panelist's volume on this end. 🙏☮️⚖️
Rest in peace, Daria Dugina.
You are all excellent!! I live in Guatemala since 18 years, and understand you well. It is good to hear such intelligent conversation about how the US has put Latin America the way it is - it is all for the benefit of the US and the poverty will remain as long as this is not changed. Hopefully the left wave will remain and allow for something different. We have to have hope.
Mainly for the benefit of the U.S. ruling class and upper classes. I'm from California and my 67 year old mother has been a hard-working teacher all these years but can't afford a home, barely makes ends meet, plus still paying off student debt. To afford a home and decent standard of living around here you have to inherit, work in a lucrative industry, be married with two good incomes, that kind of thing. So there are a ton of unhappy marriages based on the convenience of combining finances.
Thanks for all that info.😊
i cackled on nightmare blunt rotation. thank you
Hi guys, interesting topic. Regarding dependency theory, however, i think there are several theoretical problems which could be explored. The reliance on the idea of monopoly capital (criticised by Shaikh), unequal exchange of value understood as a physical substance, superexploitation of labor, and underconsumptionism, are all concepts with serious difficulties. I would recommend the work of Astarita but i don't think it's been translated to English.
Very informative. Thank you.
EU also ruined a lot of farmers in Africa and then they wonder about immigration.
@@feydrautha012 Every criticism is doomed as Nazism nowadays. In reality the fascists are sitting in the governments.
Thank you. That's the thing missing from this series. EU countries get to pat themselves on the back for being more progressive than the U.S. when the reality is filled with neo-colonialist projects and continued unequal relations. Business as usual.
Thank you. Very interesting. 👍🕊🇦🇺
Great detail. Postcolonialism goes into detail about this with the Metropole-Colony dichotomy. The Americas never really stepped out of that arrangement with the USA at the helm.
Please equalize sound levels between your microphones! It's just impossible to listen when you need to hold your volume knob in fear to go deaf after being forced to raise the volume to the maximum.
33:50 "The liberals are in denial about the way that democracy and liberalism are inextricable from Imperialism. That's one of the key defining characteristics of liberals - the denial of imperialism, the coercion, the violence, the expropriation that is a prerequisite for the 'liberal project.' Whereas the historical materialists put this right at the center of their analysis." nice.
The important thing is to remain calm.
Two factors also to consider about the rise of imperialism in the U.S. are the large scale immigration into the country from Europe and also the movement of the population into cities from the countryside.
Imperialism means impunity. ❤❤❤
...as does corporate personhood.
@@donHooligan the rich ain't people they're corporations
@@lefty4letty
llc...is a person with all your rights, but none of your pesky responsibilities.
...and a person can bankrupt an llc to make his bank account fat.
i call this the Trump (or Bezos) business model.
"Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the world" -Tyrell Wellick (same principle)
the llc grants impunity for damages, and profit can be funneled wherever you want.
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting" -the art of war.
Even in the academic world, greed and power subverts our "better angels". In a nutshell , greed is the most simplistic, yet truthful dynamic in ALL human interactions, but it is also egregiously so when discussing America's behavior on the World Stage. We could easily be characterized as "carrying a big stick" in one hand, and a white cane in the other.
I'm enjoying the content a lot! But please, couldn't you arrange this playlist so that it saves and plays sequentially without me having to go out, sorry chronologically, scroll down, count the episodes up, blah blah blah!? Is that technically difficult? It would eg enable me to share the entire playlist.
Can you resume this to a 10-15 minute video? I think it would be a good idea
I watch all sessions and l also share it onmy Facebook
more of this
Man I gotta get his book. Maybe next paycheck. lol.
Very very interesting
fascinating,thank you
This was an unbelievable episode. I never knew there was a documentary on how America destroyed Jamaica.
What was the name of the documentary?
I would suggest that the US has been an imperialist hegemon since the founding of the republic, first a regional hegemon, then after 1945 an aspiring global hegemon.
One aspect that was left out to some degree in this very interesting debate is the interimperialist colonialism or system of dominance as it exists in the EU for example. While the countries in the EU are mostly ex or current imperialist powers, you can see how the strongest use the same relation of dependance with the weaker as you say about the global south. And this isn't new either. Alvaro Cunhal, a very proiminent communist and portuguese intelectual said of Portugal during fascism that it had the caracheteristic of being simultaniously a colonizer and colonized (at the time by the British).
Yes this is true of Australia also
Germany, Britain and France are a classic example.
Germany has Eastern Europe, mostly the Balkans, while being legally occupied by the US.
Britain has some islands, former colonies. While being given a script to follow from Washington DC.
Neither Britain nor Germany have an independent foreign policy, and can do nothing without the US approval.
And France has Francafrique. But is also a colony of America.
From the 3, France has the most sovereign foreign policy, but it's increasingly less significant on the world stage.
Great discussion. Is Aaron baked here?
Ben: "We could spend many hours talking about this stuff."
Me: *Looks at watch*, "What, you think this has been 5 minutes?"
Anybody know what the dude talking about an English empire was referring to?
Hi Ben Norton
Ben, you should address what Jackson Hinkle said about you on his latest rant video about you being a Neoliberal stand.
Multipolar world means global democracy, unipolar world means global autocracy, I thought that USA stood for democracy worldwide, why USA is opposing global democracy? USA should happily give up its hegemony for the multipolar world which comprise and represent the entire world population not just the 15 percentage population in the collective west....
for the 1% there is always more to lust after. and capitalism is opposed to democracy, always.
Multipolar world means global autonomy. If you look at the definition of Multipolar, it defines as multiple centers of power, which is exactly what autonomy is.
@@niconico2312 at least in multipolar world people from different countries can let their voice be heard , unipolar world is only USA ordering and bullying other countries like a true autocrat would do....
@@mna7308 What? No. Multipolar doesn't make the world democratic or autocratic. We still got monarchies like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar that censors their people. In a Multipolar world, all types of government will be allowed to exist as multiple centers of power, autonomy.
@@niconico2312 and in unipolar saudi , uae are given weapons by USA and nobody stops it ....you know USA is responsible directly or indirectly in many wars happening around the world, this is called guilt by association and multipolar world USA will answer while in unipolar it gets free pass for it's atrocities like arming dictatorship like Saudi, Iraq and Afghanistan
To understand it best -- read Antonio Gramsci for Hegemony; and Lenin for imperialism, Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism. Everything else is noise.
By battles in Tunisia do you mean Carthage? Carthage was not an upcoming empire, Rome was.
They were competing powers. Carthage in the First Punic War had the larger empire, in the Second, Carthage had a slightly larger empire and by the Third Punic War, Rome was a burgeoning Mediterranean empire while Carthage was reduced to a city-state before Rome annihilated Carthage for good.
@@PutXi_Whipped Yes but it was the rising Rome defeating Carthage which was well estabilished trading empire not the other way around.
They also refer to Britain as England. It's a Yank thing. They're pretty good in most other respects but toponymy isn't their forte.
@@youngmurphy7556 Reminds me of an old joke: America is always at war so that its citizens may learn geography.
Sounds like AKA U.S. Primacy (intimidation)
I really like this series - it has clarified a great deal and the historical perspective is invaluable. However, this installment is a miss for me. Not because it concerns theory, but because the theories seem so poorly explained and connected. Better when Aaron speaks or answers direct questions, but when you guys talk it's often disjointed and uninstructive, or worse, wastes time indulging in scoring points against John Bolton - it's okay, we know he's a bad guy. I can't say that I have a better grasp on US Imperialism now than before I watched this, though I would like to. Please let Aaron do more of the talking next time.
This is complex information an I find if I take notes (stop go back and write points down) I can take more time to absorb what is said. I found everything quite clear doing this from all 3 participants and not disjointed at all. The John Bolton segment was relevant in that it shows the brazenness of the apparatus and those wielding it. Almost saying "yeah and what are ya gonna do about it?" to those who are even aware of it, and a complete disregard of the many lives impacted by these heinous activities, oblivious to the why's and wherefores of their own situations
Way too many commercials guys. Worse than TV.
RUclips is responsible for the number and placement of the commercials.
The embarassment of typing "Tripartheid State" into the Google searchbar
58:39-Poverty Pimping.."I give you a fish..you eat once..I TEACH you how to fish..you eat 4 LIFE"..
I learned that imperialism is something nations other than the US participate in.
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To me the reason to why there are empires is similar to why there are monopolies. There is always the fear of being dominated by an other; therefore, if one has power, and wants to keep that power, one must use that power to dominate others first. A world championship boxer wants to become so powerful that he can take on any and all challengers.
Good analogy, but I think one thing needs to be pointed out.
If the champion boxer trains harder than everyone else, for example, then more power to him.
But in the case of imperialism, this boxer is doing a Tonya Harding on his opponents - injuring them outside the ring. That's not cool...
Another alternative is changing the paradigm completely. Competition and domination are replaced by other values more conducive to living in harmony and cooperation without the need to exert control over others
@@katalinkiss120 That would be the logical thing to do. The problem is that the ruling elite won't allow the People to change to this alternative.
Just see how the billionaires use non-violent - but coercive - tactics to subjugate unionization efforts at Amazon, Starbucks, and Chipotle.
If they won't even give us something simple like that, then what makes you think they'll allow us to change the entire system?
@@katalinkiss120 Isn't it astounding, we have these oh-so-miraculous brains (I'm having doubts on this) but choose the most destructive values we can find on the list and worship them on a pedestal. I was just pointing out elsewhere how matriarchal societies tend towards more peaceful, egalitarian relations and spiritualities that honor nature etc. So if women finally stop sipping on that patriarchy juice and step up to the power plate, maybe we'll have a shot at saving the world. ^_^
Please talk about the Chinese, Russian, ottoman,and Mongal empire. Tiber and Xinging are occupied colonies of China.
1:03:07-BLOWback-"Drug trafficking proxies' get Murica' ADDICTED"!
Empire. The ...... that dares not speak its name.
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on this video, ads played every 2 minutes. virtually unwatchable.
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thank you for a great discussion!
not boring @ all for this non-academic, no-memory-havin' idiot.
in a perfect world Ben Norton & Michael Brooks would've joined forces.
I think hegemony, at least according to Gramsci, refers specifically to the use of cultural influence as a tool for domination, as opposed to relying only on the use of force. For example in the early colonial days they would use religious indoctrination , like the missionaries converting people in africa/ south America to christianity. Today they use woke ideology, femminism, hollywood, western pop culture etc..
coffee growers working for free, retail price of coffee is up a couple dollars a "3#" can. capitalism.
Speak to the narrative that is the acceptable mythology, because the truth is a path were the accepted reality is the average of popular education whose mean is a thousand years behind at times, a place where historical perspective destroys the present reality that we are coming to understand.
Today's special. Israeli hegemony.
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Read the works of Lyndon LaRouche and Dope inc
Why editing & rectifying typos not allowed
there are "leeches" attached to these videos that cause 'hiccups' in specific functions.
CIA, FBI, NSA...your comments are being filed somewhere.
don't get scared, but don't be ignorant, either.
"First, they came for..."
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when you talk about the Nyet means nyet. You read an article that says "a war that could force Russia to intervene in Ukriane" Okay, but how exactly does Ukraine have such bad troubles that moscow is FORCED to intervene? Moscow moved those people to Ukraine during stalin's era. Nobody forces anyone to join a war. If Russia joins this war, it means that Russia is telling Ukraine and the people what they can and cant do, and what international agreements they can abide by...... yes, so Russia here is the imperialist, when they just randomnly get to tell Ukraine what to do.... and Russia btw has a long history of causing problems on the border, and then ooopsie daisy, walking their military to settle the disputes and steal land. . Russia/Ukraine is the exact same thing as Israel/Gaza. Israel wants land, they wait until gaza screws up, then they go take the land, its that simple. Russia doesn't get to tell Ukraine what to do. They are a different country. When Russia tells Ukraine what to do, thats imperialism. And Ukraine has had 100 years of direct Russian imperialism, and it was not great times in Ukraine when Russia starved 7 million Ukrainians. REMEMBER THE HOLODOMOR
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1:05:51-bc they have HIGH iq's.."White man's Burden"..lol