Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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19 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Yeah, so as we know, we don't have a big generalized nonviolent mass protest, but we have righteous indignation breaking out spontaneously all over the nation.
And Joy, I really believe that there's a reckoning that's going to come.
Because what's happening now at the hands of literally the world's richest man who has taken control of our government and is using it to enrich himself and investigating.
He's, you know, destroying agencies that have been investigating his companies.
This brings forth such... It brings to a peak all of the unfairness of neoliberalism, all of the kind of the rich get richer, and that's one part of authoritarianism.
It's fewer rights for the many and way more liberties for the few.
And so we're seeing a kind of... I can't say this enough.
It's fantastic.
It made me miss doing my opening monologue.
in front of GOP members of Congress in their town halls.
And so this is a very good sign of something larger that I believe will come.
It can, and economic boycotts have been very effective at certain times and places.
A very interesting one is still going on in Myanmar after the military coup, and the resistance that's developed, it's now developed into an armed resistance that's one of the most successful in the world.
Many people expect
the junta, the military junta to fall if China doesn't help them.
But at the very beginning, they started, and this was youth doing this, young people, they started an economic boycott and they developed apps that told people in real time which businesses were helped.
sacrifice with the military junta and it was incredibly effective and these kind of generation of resistors this kind of it's your girl it's right sending a message loud and clear going on with economic boycotts via apps and things like that
Yeah.
I want to start with you, Rachel.
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