[Peace-discuss] Tariq Ali speaks at UIUC this Thursday

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Some points made by Tariq Ali, as I remember them -Karen Medina:* 1968, end of the old style of revolutions. * two great wins:1) Vietnamese people won against US.2) anti- war movement wins. A win that keeps the US from openly committing war until the 1990s. Anti-war Veterans, demonstrated at the Pentagon, dating that Vietnam would win and the US veterans were supporting the Vietnamese win. --Portugal as the single best experiment in socialism, and this is because of a refusal to accept dictatorship. All other attempts accepted dictatorship, a proletariat dictatorship is a dictatorship. -- Side note: Iraq, was the arab country with the most women educated. Iran was second. Syria too, women educated. --Imperialism. The United states needs to change. The west coast was the tech revolution. Still leader. But imperialism and forcing others to go along with the US is not going to last.--England, Had an open invitation for people to join the right wing party, got a leftist and had to give him air time.
[There was a lot more, but i was not taking notes. Only what I can remember after the talk].-----In response to Ken Salo's question:Ali totally dismissed Marx as laying out a clear alternative to capitalism. Marx is great at pointing out flaws of capitalism. Marx is great at political analysis. But not a prediction of the future, and nor explicating the solution. / The revolution in Russia was a revolution against the " communist manifesto".


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THIS THURSDAY - NOT TO BE MISSED
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 Tariq Ali - "The Broken Ladder: 
 The Global Left Fifty Years After 1968" March 29, 7:30pm
 210 Levis Faculty Center 
 At the end of the Cold War, the notion of revolution seemed to have 
been placed among the relics of history. Francis Fukuyama’s “end of 
history” and Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” emerged as 
bold, alternative frameworks to imagine the course of history after the 
age of political revolutions had come to an end. Then, the so called 
Arab Springs and the re-emergence of radical narratives of 
transformation, from Ukraine to Venezuela, have forced intellectuals and
 politicians to reconsider the actuality and the meaning of revolutions 
in the age of globalization. Also,========================
 Joint Area Centers Symposium (JACS)  
 "Revolutions: Past and Futures of Radical Transformations" March 30, 9:30am-6:30pm
 Levis Faculty Center, Music Room
 The symposium will be articulated around 4 themes: 1) religion and 
revolution, 2) anti-colonialism, 3) violence and transformation, and 4) 
gender, race, minorities and revolution. The goal of the symposium is to
 bring experts from different disciplines and different geographical 
areas to articulate the productiveness or the anachronism of the concept
 of revolution in multiple cultural contexts. Scholars from and experts 
on China, India, Latin America, Europe and Africa will provide a truly 
transnational perspective to the symposium.
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