Tariq Ali has been an icon on the left since Mick Jagger became inspired to write "Street Fighting Man" after watching Ali and 8000 others protest the US invasion of South Vietnam in 1968.
Ali's latest book, The Extreme Center: A Warning posits a devolution of democracy through the infusion of corporate money into both major US political parties and the rise of a wholesale security and surveillance state designed to accelerate "the reconfiguration of the global economy into a merciless neofeudalism, a world of masters and serfs."
Ali believes the US must be ground zero in the struggle against "authoritarian capitalism"
"'If nothing happens in the United States, if nothing new is created to challenge systemic excesses and empire, it will be a bad situation for all of us,' he said. 'One is doomed if nothing happens in the U.S.'”
Chris Hedges Tariq Ali The Time Is Right for a Palace Revolution - Chris Hedges -Truthdig
Ali's latest book, The Extreme Center: A Warning posits a devolution of democracy through the infusion of corporate money into both major US political parties and the rise of a wholesale security and surveillance state designed to accelerate "the reconfiguration of the global economy into a merciless neofeudalism, a world of masters and serfs."
Ali believes the US must be ground zero in the struggle against "authoritarian capitalism"
"'If nothing happens in the United States, if nothing new is created to challenge systemic excesses and empire, it will be a bad situation for all of us,' he said. 'One is doomed if nothing happens in the U.S.'”
Chris Hedges Tariq Ali The Time Is Right for a Palace Revolution - Chris Hedges -Truthdig