{"id":14057,"date":"2013-08-08T22:31:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T02:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14057"},"modified":"2013-08-08T22:48:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T02:48:53","slug":"questioning-the-underlying-structures-of-property-and-power-is-off-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/08\/08\/questioning-the-underlying-structures-of-property-and-power-is-off-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Questioning the Underlying Structures of Property and Power is &#8220;Off the Table&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have stumbled across an interesting series on <em>The Real News Network<\/em>.  The interviews with  Vijay Prashad are in 5 parts.  The first in this series was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=31&#038;Itemid=74&#038;jumival=10523\" title=\"The Real News Network video\" target=\"_blank\">Vijay Prashad: Marx and Tolstoy Helped Me See the Limits of Liberalism &#8211; Pt 1 of 5<\/a><\/strong>.  At this point, I felt the series might turn out to be worthwhile, or it might turn out to be just full of bull. Before deciding, I waited for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=31&#038;Itemid=74&#038;jumival=10549\" title=\"The Real News Network video\" target=\"_blank\">Questioning the Underlying Structures of Property and Power is &#8220;Off the Table&#8221; &#8211; Pt 2 of 5<\/a><\/strong>. At this point I decided that Prashad had something worth listening to.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ajqtrwGx0IA?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>There is a very interesting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=31&#038;Itemid=74&#038;jumival=10549#comment-993245871\" title=\"Comment that mentions Thorstein Veblen\" target=\"_blank\">comment that mentions Thorstein Veblen<\/a><\/strong>.  I think I read Veblen in college.  If I did, I can see that I missed the whole point.<\/p>\n<p>On  <em>The Real News Network<\/em> web pages and in the video, there is mention of a similar series with Chris Hedges.  The two parts I have watched so far are, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=31&#038;Itemid=74&#038;jumival=10441\" title=\"The Real News Network video\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hedges: Urban Poverty in America Made Me Question Everything &#8211; Pt 1 of 7<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=31&#038;Itemid=74&#038;jumival=10449\" title=\"The Real News Network video\" target=\"_blank\">Hedges: Journalism Should Be About Truth, Not Career &#8211; Pt 2 of 7<\/a><\/strong>.  I just wanted to let you know about this series as soon as possible. I will make a separate post on the Chris Hedges series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have stumbled across an interesting series on The Real News Network. The interviews with Vijay Prashad are in 5 parts. The first in this series was Vijay Prashad: Marx and Tolstoy Helped Me See the Limits of Liberalism &#8211; Pt 1 of 5. At this point, I felt the series might turn out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14061,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14057\/revisions\/14061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}