Apartheid, Imperialism and Transformation with Professor Rasigan Maharajh
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Overcoming the disease of Apartheid is an ongoing process. Here I talk with Prof. Rasigan Maharajh about Apartheid, globalization, and transformation.
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0:00 Intro
0:35 Introducing Professor Majarajh
1:40 Growing up under apartheid
4:28 The founding of Chatsworth to divide "Indians" from "Africans"
5:52 All Black people under Apartheid were political
8:20 Many were employed by the Apartheid state that oppressed them
9:04 Apartheid clamped down on nationalism, paving the way for Black Consciousness and Trade Unionism
10:31 What does growing up in a radical environment look like?
11:20 Solidarity funds and mutual aid
12:27 Soweto Uprising of 1976
14:39 The radical ruler and the municipal library
16:40 Grandparents' politics and inspirations
18:47 Divide and rule politics of the 1980s and resistance
21:05 Student organising25:10 Apartheid welfare and the violence of transition
31:05 States of emergency then and now
33:08 Statism, neoliberalism and Texas
36:18 The importance of rethinking
38:42 Apartheid bureaucracy and universities
40:26 Organizing as a university student and class suicide
44:59 Struggle above and below ground
49:36 Violence, political education and South African McCarthyism
55:07 Post-Apartheid transition - upside down world
1:00:20 Collaborators were welcomed
1:02:24 Post-apartheid disillusionment
1:08:00 The global context
1:14:34 Apartheid lost, but we didn't win
1:17:58 The role of armed struggle
1:19:50 Disaster capitalism and the Great Reset
1:25:11 Towards an ecological understanding
1:26:18 The individual as ecosystem
1:27:32 Indigenous knowledge includes ecosystems thinking
1:29:15 Limits to growth
1:35:40 Ubuntu and taxation
1:37:51 Remembering the successes
1:40:17 Non-statist solutions
1:52:47 Nando's and KFC
1:54:48 What can be done practically?
