Global Politics & Cultures (formerly Independent Thought & Freedom) - The Caribbean and The Struggle for Epistemological Sovereignty w/ Aleksandr Dugin

The Caribbean and The Struggle for Epistemological Sovereignty w/ Aleksandr Dugin

08/12/20 • 13 min

Global Politics & Cultures (formerly Independent Thought & Freedom)

My Presentation at 1st International online conference on Fourth Political Theory: Global Perspectives, New Challenges, Epistemological Problems
1 August 2020

In my view, the Fourth Political Theory is an elegant articulation of a universal truth.

When I first came across this Theory, I was amazed at how it fit perfectly with the work that a small group of us have been doing in the Caribbean for decades.

I come from a local intellectual tradition called the New World Group, which was formed from the time we were becoming independent in the 1960s, and some of us resisted the Cold War between American liberal capitalism and Soviet Communism.

I want to share our insights so that we can collaborate.

Let's start with the Caribbean's place in MOdernity.

The Caribbean was the birthplace of Western Imperialism and the Modern World, even before many places in Europe.

This is where Columbus came and his voyages were.

Whole societies were created out of pure economic interests, vulgar and brutal materialism. We were foundational to the internationalisation of production, finance, distribution and trade chains and extreme inequality. All our production was exported, all of our necessities were imported, we produced nothing for our own use. We created vast proto-industrial plantations based on imported cheap (slave) labour. The predated industrialial capitalism in Europe.

We represent the dark side of modernity.

We have also been engaged in a long struggle against it.

Both in the form of trying to create autonomous societies that try to free themselves of imperialism, and also in the form of providing some of the most cogent critiques of that imperialism, including the hypocrisy of its chief ideology, Liberalism.

My presentation provides four main insights.

The full conference can be found here:
http://paideuma.tv/en/announce/1st-international-online-conference-fourth-political-theory

http://4pt.su/en

My Presentation at 1st International online conference on Fourth Political Theory: Global Perspectives, New Challenges, Epistemological Problems
1 August 2020

In my view, the Fourth Political Theory is an elegant articulation of a universal truth.

When I first came across this Theory, I was amazed at how it fit perfectly with the work that a small group of us have been doing in the Caribbean for decades.

I want to share our insights so that we can collaborate.

Let's start with the Caribbean's place in MOdernity.

The Caribbean was the birthplace of Western Imperialism and the Modern World, even before many places in Europe.

This is where Columbus came and his voyages were.

We represent the dark side of modernity.

We have also been engaged in a long struggle against it.

My presentation provides four main insights.

The full conference can be found here:
http://paideuma.tv/en/announce/1st-international-online-conference-fourth-political-theory

http://4pt.su/en

Previous Episode

100 Years of Trinidad and Tobago w/ Selwyn Cudjoe and Kevin Baldeosingh

A Story Club: Global Cultures S1 E3
streamed live on FB from the US (San Francisco), India (Dehra Dun) and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, Thursdays 12pm EDT | 9am PDT | 9:30pm IST

What can the world learn from a small, Caribbean twin-island state, like Trinidad and Tobago?

Trinidad and Tobago is a fascinating place. It has been my family’s home for six generations. A product of an exceptionally global history, it also has made unique contributions to the world.

For it’s small size, it has produced a very large number of global thinkers, writers, entertainers, artists, athletes, writers, political activists.

Spanish, French, English, African, Indian, Hindu, Muslim, Catholic, Anglican, Protestant, Yoruba, Chinese, Portuguese, and Syrian-Lebanese peoples have been living together and inter-acting with each other for generations, creating a unique multi-layered cultural complex and dynamic.

Trinidad and Tobago has given the world a large number of leading personalities --intellectuals, political activists, entertainers -- for its size. These include: Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipual, Pan-Africanists Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Henry Sylvester-Williams, political sage CLR James, rapper Nicki Minaj, historian and statesman Eric Williams, dancer and actor Geoffrey Holder, cricketer Brian Lara, footballer Dwight Yorke, singer Billy Ocean, Islamic Eschatologist Sheikh Imran Hosein, Chinese nationalist revolutionary Eugene Chen.

All from a tiny state of 1.3 million people.

Its fascinating history tells the story of colonialism, decolonization and independence, of the challenges and promises of cultural diversity, the process of blending of East and West in the New World, the challenges of economic development for small and formerly colonial countries.

Not only has Trinidad and Tobago contributed much to the world, the world can learn a lot by knowing more about Trinidad and Tobago.

Join me, Dr. Kirk Meighoo, along with my guest Professor Selwyn Cudjoe and writer, satirist, and social critic Kevin Baldeosingh, as we seek to understand the lessons of Trinidad and Tobago over the past 100 years, with a view to its future, and what the world can learn from it.

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Rebuilding Economies in a post-lockdown World w/ Helga Zepp-LaRouche

A Story Club: Global Politics S1 E3
streamed live on FB from the US (San Francisco), India (Dehra Dun) and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, Thursdays 12pm EDT | 9am PDT | 9:30pm IST

The global economy is sick. The unprecedented lockdowns occurring simultaneously across the world has thrown many people out of work, stopped international travel, hindered trade, closed entire industries, and increased money printing, debt and government cash disbursements around the world.

Where is this all leading to?

What is the “New Normal” that the world is being asked to accept?
Is the “Old Normal” something we want to return to? Or is there a better alternative?

Can We Create 1.5 Billion New, Productive Jobs Around the World?

At a time when people are asked to stay home, stay away from work, stay away from school, stop domestic and international travel, what effect will this have on our societies and economies?

Does this mean that there will be an inevitable crash?

Are we supposed to accepting a decline into a “New Normal” of stagnation and slow growth?

How will this affect the poorest in the society, and the world?

The International Schiller Institute, following its 40-year mission to create a just international economic order, has worked with some of the world’s most important leaders over that time -- including Ronad Reagan of the US, Indira Gandhi of India, Michael Lopez Portillo in Mexico and the Governments of China and Russia – to achieve this end.

Join me, Dr. Kirk Meighoo, in a fascinating and insightful discussion with Helga Zepp LaRouche, founder and President of the International Schiller Institute in Germany (https://schillerinstitute.com/), as we discuss how the Institute’s international activities have helped to push progress for all nations – including developing nations such as Trinidad and Tobago, India, others throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, and also for the ordinary mass of peoples of Europe and North America.