In times when the tempo for struggle is not very high, you prepare populations by conducting acts of courage-building, confidence-building, respect for… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Over the last two or so decades, there's been an increase in thinking among the Left, liberals, intellectuals in the direction of… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Interestingly, if you write preparation out of history, leadership and preparation, the building of confidence among people who are exploited, you've actually… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity. — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation. — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting. — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
We would like to participate in manifestations, in Occupies and things like that. We would like to be involved in a march. But we… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
Mr. Assad is not going to be able to feel like there is a moderate opposition that actually threatens him. Currently, the Assad government… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
It is convenient for Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair to say the rise of the Islamic State has nothing to do with the Iraq… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so-called 'propaganda… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its extraterritorial or… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them...… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
In times when the tempo for struggle is not very high, you prepare populations by conducting acts of courage-building, confidence-building, respect for each other.… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share
