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Indian historian and journalist

Vijay Prashad

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Prashad in 2010
Built-in (1967-08-14) 14 Baronial 1967 (age 54)

Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality Indian
Education
  • The Doon School
Alma mater
  • Pomona Higher (BA)
  • Academy of Chicago (PhD)
Relatives Brinda Karat (aunt)
Website thetricontinental.org

Vijay Prashad is an Indian Marxist historian and commentator.[one] [2] He is an executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the Principal Editor of LeftWord Books and a senior non-resident swain at Chongyang Establish for Financial Studies, Renmin University of Mainland china.[iii]

He was the George and Martha Kellner Chair in Southward Asian History and a professor of international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Us from 1996 to 2017. He is an advisory board member of the U.s. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, role of the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.[4] [5]

Early life and groundwork [edit]

He is the son of Pran and Soni Prashad.[6] Vijay was born and raised in Kolkata, India.[7] Prashad attended The Doon School, a plush, elite Indian residential boarding school for boys ages 12–18.[8] He and so came to the Usa and received a BA from Pomona College in 1989, and earned a PhD at the Academy of Chicago in 1994, writing a dissertation under the supervision of Bernard S. Cohn.[9] [10] [11] He is the nephew of Marxist Indian politician Brinda Karat.[12] He is married to Smith College professor Elisabeth Armstrong.[12] [thirteen]

Views [edit]

In an commodity for The Nation, Prashad lays out his vision for a struggle towards socialism. He argues that progressive forces typically accept very good ideas, only no ability. He asserts that without power, good ideas have little consequences and claims that socialists must not just theorise, but also organise.[14] He has argued that American leftists are not as constructive equally they could be in situations where they win influence through community organising, such as in local governments, because they often do not capeesh ideas originating from other parts of the globe. He also calls on leftists to have a long-term view of social struggle rather than focusing on short-term results. Prashad argues that this short-term focus oft results from an economic organization where companies are incentivised to demonstrate quarterly profits.[15]

Prashad is a self-described Marxist[1] [2] and a co-founder of the Forum of Indian Leftists (FOIL).[ane] [16] His views on capitalism are virtually conspicuously summarised in his volume Fat Cats and Running Dogs.

The historian Paul Buhle writes, "Vijay Prashad is a literary phenomenon."[17] The writer Amitava Kumar notes, "Prashad is our ain Frantz Fanon. His writing of protest is always tinged with the beauty of hope."[18]

Criticism of Usa foreign policy [edit]

Prashad is an outspoken critic of what he calls American hegemony and imperialism.[19] [twenty] He identifies himself as an anti-Zionist and has advocated the end of The states help to Israel.[ citation needed ]

Arab Revolt of 2011 [edit]

Prashad gave a landmark interview on the Arab Revolt to Radical Notes, where he compared the fall of Egyptian President Mubarak to the fall of Mexico'south dictator Porfirio Díaz:

The Mexican Revolution opened upwards in 1911, only didn't settle into the PRI authorities till the writing of the 1917 constitution and the meridian of Carranza to the presidency in 1920 or mayhap Cárdenas in 1934. I observe many parallels betwixt United mexican states and Egypt. In both, the Left was not sufficiently adult. Perils of the Right ever lingered. If the Pharonic state withers, as Porfirio Díaz'south state did, the peasants and the working course might move beyond spontaneity and come up forrard with some more construction. Spontaneity is fine, but if power is not seized effectively, counter-revolution will ascent along effectively and securely.[21]

In a subsequent essay, he asserted that the Arab Spring is function of a long process, the Arab Revolution. He argued that the Revolt of 2011 continues to raise the ii "unanswered questions" of the Arab revolution: that of politics (liberty from monarchies and dictatorships) and of economics (to make an contained economy). In improver, he considers the revolt part of a historical process that he characterises every bit a "defection against the market" (as opposed to revolts in Eastern Europe which he sees every bit a "revolt for the market").[ citation needed ]

In ii essays, he lays out what he describes equally the failures of The states policy in the Centre East. The two pillars of Usa cynicism are its demand for autocracy as an ally in its "war on terror," and its need to support State of israel in whatsoever mode possible. The test for this conservative The states policy came in Obama'southward pick of Frank K. Wisner, who he calls the "empire'southward bagman", as the US envoy to Mubarak.[ citation needed ]

In a further essay he offered an analysis of the plummet of the national liberation dynamic which is axiomatic from his book, The Darker Nations. This essay goes over the contempo history of Libya and proposes of the recent upsurge in that location, "Old rivalries and new grievances are united. Some of them are for reactionary tribal purposes, and others seek liberation from 'reforms'. Some cavil that a country of vi 1000000 with such oil wealth does non expect like the Emirates, and others simply want to have some more than control of their lives. But about desire release from the hidden corridors of the Libyan labyrinth."[ citation needed ] Prashad debated historian Juan Cole on the US-French-NATO military intervention. Cole was for it, Prashad against.[22] Prashad argued that the genuine Libyan rising had been "usurped" past various unsavory characters, including some with CIA connections.[23]

Prashad'south 2012 volume Arab Leap, Libyan Winter AK Press puts this story together. His ii part interview on Newsclick provides the argument of the volume.[24] [25]

He gave a talk on the geopolitics of the Iranian nuclear deal.[26]

Critique of Mother Teresa and Western charity [edit]

The Communists don't give people fish, so they might eat for a mean solar day; the point of Communism is to teach the masses how to fish, so that they might swallow forever. Each day, Calcutta's Communists – as real nameless Mother Teresas! – bear the necessary work towards socialism, for the elimination of poverty forever.

—Mother Teresa: A Communist View, Vijay Prashad, Australian Marxist Review No. 40 August 1998[27]

Prashad offered his analysis of Mother Teresa's missionary piece of work in Calcutta, designating her as a representative of the collective 'conservative guilt' of Western nations.[28] He argued how people similar Mother Teresa obscure the tragedies of capitalism. For instance, "During the night of December 2–three, 1984, the Bhopal disaster poisoned thousands of people". He contends that the Bhopal disaster by Union Carbide was merely the most flagrant case of a transnational corporation's disregard for human being life at the expense of its own profit. In 1983, Union Carbide's sales came to US$9 billion and its assets totalled The states$10bn. Part of this profit came from a tendency to shirk any responsibility towards safety standards, not just in India, but as well in their W Virginia found. After the disaster, Mother Teresa flew into Bhopal and, escorted in 2 government cars, she offered Bhopal'south victims small aluminium medals of St. Mary. "This could have been an accident," she told the survivors, "it'due south like a fire (that) could interruption out anywhere. That is why it is important to forgive. Forgiveness offers us a clean heart and people will be a hundred times meliorate afterward it." Pope John Paul II joined Female parent Teresa with his analysis that Bhopal was a "sad result" which resulted from "man's efforts to make progress."

In the same article he as well commented on Mother Teresa'southward declared links with Charles Keating and Michele Duvalier (wife of Haitian dictator Baby Doc Duvalier). Denouncing the "roughshod dominion of capital letter" he also offered the view that the communists of Calcutta were the "real nameless Female parent Teresas who conduct the necessary work towards socialism, for the emptying of poverty forever".[27]

Bolivia [edit]

Prashad has written extensively about the removal of Evo Morales as President of Bolivia in 2019 and the 2020 Bolivian general ballot.[29] He described Morales'southward removal every bit a coup d'état and said the Organisation of American States had "legitimised" the insurrection with unsubstantiated conclusions in its preliminary study.[29] In March 2020, he wrote that Morales's removal from role was the effect of his government's "socialist policy toward Bolivia's resource" which required that returns from mining resources such as lithium "be properly shared with the Bolivian people". He said that the government of Jeanine Áñez had extended a "welcome mat" to Tesla to establish a factory in Bolivia to manufacture lithium batteries from Republic of bolivia's reserves.[29]

Controversies [edit]

Attempts to demote [edit]

In 2010, Prashad was appointed to head the newly formed Trinity Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, at Trinity College. A grouping of professors wrote a letter protesting the date based on "the prominent role he has played in promoting a boycott of Israeli universities and of study abroad in Israel".[thirty] Afterward initially refusing to meet with them, Trinity President James Jones eventually met with representatives from Jewish organisations, including the Connecticut Jewish federation, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford[31] on 14 September 2010. 1 participant reported a "veiled threat" to have Jewish donors "counterbalance in". The university backed Prashad and rejected attempts to rescind his date.[32]

Works [edit]

  • (2020) Washington Bullets (LeftWord Books), ISBN 978-81-945925-2-5 Preface by Evo Morales Ayma.
  • (2019) Red Star Over the Third World (Pluto Press), ISBN 978-0745339665
  • (2017) Will the Flower Slip Through the Cobblestone: Writers Respond to Climate change (New Delhi: LeftWord Books).
  • (2017) Red Oct: The Russian Revolution and the Communist Horizon (New Delhi: LeftWord Books)
  • (2017) Land of Blueish Helmets: the United nations in the Arab World (co-edited with Karim Makdisi) (Academy of California Printing).
  • (2016) The Death of the Nation and the Hereafter of the Arab Revolution (University of California Press), ISBN 978-0-520-29325-0
  • (2016) Communist Histories, vol. i (New Delhi: LeftWord Books).
  • (2015) No Costless Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (LeftWord Books).
  • (2015) Letters to Palestine (Verso Books).
  • (2013) Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso). Foreword by Boutros-Boutros Ghali.
  • (2012) Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today. (The New Press), ISBN 978-1-59558-784-8
  • (2012) Arab Spring, Libyan Winter, (AK Printing), ISBN 978-1-84935-112-6.
  • (2007) The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Tertiary World, The New Press, ISBN 978-i-56584-785-9
  • (2003), Keeping upwardly with the Dow Joneses: Stocks, Jails, Welfare, South Finish Press, ISBN 978-0-89608-689-0
  • (2003), Namaste Sharon: Hindutva and Sharonism under US Hegemony, LeftWord Books, ISBN 81-87496-35-5.
  • (2002) Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity, Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0-8070-5011-viii
  • (2002) Fat Cats and Running Dogs: The Enron Stage of Capitalism, Zed Books, ISBN 978-i-84277-261-4
  • (2002), War against the Planet: The Fifth Afghan War, Imperialism and Other Contrasted Fundamentalism, Manohar, ISBN 978-81-87496-19-9
  • (2002), Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-565848-4
  • (2000), The Karma of Chocolate-brown Folk, University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0-8166-3438-5

References [edit]

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  2. ^ a b "I came to Marxism against my self-interest. Born into abundance, I was raised in an revolutionary metropolis (Calcutta, India)" Left history, Volumes 11–12, pp 61, Section of History, Queen'due south University, Kingston, Ontario, 2006
  3. ^ "Morocco Drives a War in Western Sahara for Its Phosphates". NewsClick. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Advisory Board - Usa Campaign for the Bookish and Cultural Boycott of Israel". Usacbi.org . Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  5. ^ Guttman, Nathan (26 August 2014). "Anti-Israel Professor Returns to Trinity College — Will Controversy Come Back Likewise?". Frontwards . Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  6. ^ My Japanese parents, VIJAY PRASHAD, Himal, May 31, 2013
  7. ^ Prashad, Vijay. "Columnist Vijay Prashad: Coronavirus and the virus of debt". Daily Hampshire Gazette.
  8. ^ "About Us - Best Boarding School for Boys | The Doon School". Doon School . Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  9. ^ "2011 Indian-American Achiever Awards" (PDF). GOPIO-Connecticut. Global Arrangement of People of Indian Origin. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 19 Dec 2020.
  10. ^ "Vijay Prashad Video - Book Interviews". OVGuide. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  11. ^ Prashad, Vijay (1994). Revolting labor: The making of the Balmiki community. (Volumes I and Two) (PhD). University of Chicago. p. v.
  12. ^ a b "Vijay Prashad". STOP HINDU HATE ADVOCACY NETWORK (SHHAN). 28 August 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  13. ^ "Elisabeth Armstrong". Smith College . Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  14. ^ Prashad, Vijay (17 March 2009). "The Dragons, Their Dragoons". The Nation . Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  15. ^ "Confronting the Grain – October 18, 2004" (Podcast). KPFA. 18 October 2004. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  16. ^ Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day (author info) Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Motorcar People's Commonwealth, Weekly Organ of the Communist Political party of India (Marxist)
  17. ^ Buhle, Paul (ane January 2014). "Prashad at Large". Monthly Review. 65 (8): 58. doi:ten.14452/MR-065-08-2014-01_5. Retrieved 19 Dec 2020.
  18. ^ Rana, Aziz (eighteen March 2014). "Intermission the Silence: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Asian American Writers' Workshop . Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  19. ^ "Vijay Prashad has come to exist known for his adept critical analysis of US imperialism and war", Chopping Through the Foundations of Racism With Vijay Prashad, Joel Wendland, 8 Baronial 2003, Friction Mag
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  21. ^ "'If power is not seized, counter-revolution will ascension': Vijay Prashad on the Arab revolt (Office I)". Radical Notes. 31 January 2011. Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 19 Dec 2020.
  22. ^ "A Debate on U.S. Military machine Intervention in Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya: Juan Cole v. Vijay Prashad". Democracy At present . Retrieved 24 Nov 2017.
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  25. ^ "Vijay Prashad: Arab Spring Libyan Winter - Function Ii". YouTube. xviii July 2012. Archived from the original on 12 Dec 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  26. ^ "The Geopolitics of Islamic republic of iran'due south Nuclear Program". YouTube. American University of Beirut. 30 March 2015. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  27. ^ a b Mother Teresa: A Communist View, Vijay Prashad, Australian Marxist Review No. xl Baronial 1998, previously published in Political Affairs, the Periodical of the Communist Political party USA
  28. ^ White Women in Racialized Spaces: Imaginative Transformation and Upstanding Action in Literature, Samina Najmi, Rajini Srikanth, Mother Teresa every bit the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt - Chapter iv, pp 67, Published past SUNY Printing, 2002, ISBN 0-7914-5477-0, ISBN 978-0-7914-5477-0
  29. ^ a b c Prashad, Vijay; Bejarano, Alejandro (11 March 2020). "Elon Musk is S America's neo-conquistador". Salon . Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  30. ^ Prashad, Vijay. "Agreement the boycott of Israel's universities" Washington Post, 24 January 2014
  31. ^ "Nigh The states". Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford . Retrieved nineteen December 2020.
  32. ^ Anti-Israel Professor Returns to Trinity Higher — Will Controversy Come Back Too? The Frontwards, 26 August 2014

External links [edit]

  • Vijay Prashad'southward newsletters at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
  • Vijay Prashad's Faculty Contour at Trinity College
  • Vijay Prashad's Curriculum Vitae
  • Vijay Prashad'south personal weblog website Archived sixteen November 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  • Reality Asserts Itself – Vijay Prashad. A set up of 4 interviews on The Real News. (October 2014)
  • Making Poverty History. Jacobin. (November 2014)
  • What Was Missing from Obama'southward Anti-Terrorism Speech. "Vijay Prashad says President Obama failed to acknowledge how Western intervention has contributed to the rise of extremism." (February 2015)
  • Washington's Bullets Can't Stamp Out the Hope of a Amend World. Interview with Jacobin. (November 2020)

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