Capitalism’s Morbid Symptoms: War, AI and the Crisis of the West | Prof. Radhika Desai
The liberal capitalist class is in panic — and for a good reason. Their reign of terror is finally coming to a close. Not only because of the emergence of the formerly colonized Global South but also because the capitalists have so thoroughly hollowed out their own nation states that collapse is all but inevitable.Professor Radhika Desai joins Pascal to examine elections, imperial power and the deepening crisis of neoliberal capitalism. They discuss Brazil, Israeli politics, the Israel lobby debate and the relationship between class interests and national strategy. Desai argues that financialization, inequality, repression and speculative AI investment reveal systemic decay. The conversation also considers youth protests, European rearmament, the postwar social compromise and China’s contrasting development model, asking how economies could prioritize ordinary people’s welfare and sustainable prosperity over private profit.
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00:00 Brazil’s election and the Latin American left
07:47 Israeli elections and Netanyahu’s wars
11:48 The Israel lobby and US imperial interests
17:18 Class, nation and geopolitical economy
25:22 How neoliberalism dismantled the postwar compromise
31:29 Financialization and the AI bubble
37:05 Youth protests, repression and European rearmament
45:23 Capitalism’s crisis and China’s alternative Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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