127/ Against Multipolar Imperialism: An Internationalist Response w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li ...

I'm excited to share with you my convo with Kavita Krishnan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavita_...) , Promise Li (https://lausancollective.com/author/p...) and Romeo Kokriatski (https://english.nv.ua/korrespondents/...) on why the idea of multipolarity needs to be understood & critiqued, and why the left cannot abandon anti-authoritarianism and internationalism.



Kavita Krishnan is an Indian Marxist and Feminist who used to be a politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation who made news a few months ago when she resigned over Ukraine. Promise Li is a US-based Hong Konger organizer and part of the Left diaspora collective Lausan (https://lausancollective.com/) . Romeo Kokriatski is a Ukrainian-American journalist, managing editor of the New Voice of Ukraine (https://t.co/iRDteos8vf) and co-host of the Ukraine Without Hype (https://anchor.fm/ukraine-without-hype) podcast.



Promise is also a returning guest of the pod, and Romeo's been on a few times as well.



Due to Russia's ongoing bombardments of Ukraine, Romeo's power went out towards the end of the episode so we had to continue without him. 



Slava Ukraini.



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Mentions and Book Recommendations:



My piece for Lausan Collective: The periphery has no time for binaries (https://lausancollective.com/2021/per...)

Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India by Angana P. Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen and Christophe Jaffrelot (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11757/97817...)  (Kavita)

Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets: Facing the Liquidity Tsunami by Ilias Alami (https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11757/97810...) (Promise)



Regular updates on India can be found on The India Cable (https://www.theindiacable.com/)



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