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127/ Against Multipolar Imperialism: An Internationalist Response w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski

The Fire These Times

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Is There a Caste System in India?

Kavita Krishnan: It drives me insane the way people treat war as some kind of atmospheric disturbance instead of concerted human action. LGBT oppression, religious oppression, these are all very often presented as things that are unavoidable or a consequence of nature instead of human agency. What they're calling for when they say we want the downfall of the regime or in Iran, they're literally saying death to dictator. This is not metaphorical. The current world order already feels fragile,. Obviously you have climate related fears and anxieties about what's going on right? And if it says our worldview cannot be sustained then at least part of the story is like this because there are good folks who sort of read

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