Capitalism Ajamu Baraka Interview (Video): An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Ajamu Baraka Interview (Video): An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

November 21, 2022 November 21, 2022

Ajamu Baraka grew up on the South Side of Chicago and served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He has taught political science at various universities and has been a guest lecturer at academic institutions in the U.S. and abroad. As a human rights defender whose experience spans four decades of domestic and international education and activism, Ajamu is a veteran grassroots organizer whose roots are in the Black Liberation Movement and anti-apartheid and Central American solidarity struggles. In 2016, he was the Green Party nominee for Vice President of the United States. He currently serves as the national organizer and spokesperson for the Black Alliance for Peace.

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subhuti37
November 21, 2022 at 2:06 pm

Excellent questions and excellent answers. What will it take to move society in the direction that Baraka recommends? It’s as if there is a patient with a disease, and the doctor says the person’s habits need to change. But the patient is so addicted to its habits, that its ‘immune system’ is deeply compromised. So the problem is multilayered. The manifestation of militarism, wealth inequality, corporate control, for example, when most people are simply too preoccupied with getting by, and too attached (brainwashed) to the System itself, that change has proved to be impossible–so far. And the System is designed to protect itself from ‘the cure’. For that reason, there is some sentiment that change will be imposed by the force of circumstances. Either economic and social collapse, or utter humiliation in a war, which will break the spell that the elites hold over the country.

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