https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/06de48b1-e085-4d00-8911-466ebd7686c1 At the conference China and the Left: A Socialist Forum held on September 18, 2021 hosted by Qiao Collective at The People’s Forum in New York City, Radhika Desai, Pawel Wargan, Mark Tseng-Putterman, and Manu Karuka speak on a panel titled, “The Stakes of Critique: On the Western Left and Discursive Framings of China.” Each speaker delivered a talk on the panel moderated by Qiao Collective. • RADHIKA DESAI – ‘It’s the Geopolitical Economy, Stupid!’ Why many Western Leftists Misunderstand China • MARK TSENG-PUTTERMAN – China and the Global Schema of Racial Capitalism • MANU KARUKA – Take the Splinter from Your Eye: the U.S. Charges Genocide • PAWEL WARGAN – Learning About China • MODERATOR: QIAO COLLECTIVE The conference was a one-day convening of organizers, scholars, and journalists whose work grapples with questions of Chinese socialism, Western imperialism, Global South internationalism, and the renewed Cold War consensus taking hold in the West. Speakers and events analyzed current trends in U.S.-China relations, Chinese development, and international relations through a socialist, anti-imperialist lens. The conference provided a space for those invested in challenging the rise in U.S.-led imperialist aggression on China to meet, strategize, and discuss. The convening was co-sponsored by Monthly Review, The People’s Forum, and CODEPINK. Read about the conference China and the Left here → https://peoplesforum.org/event/china-and-the-left-a-socialist-forum/ ABOUT ‣ Qiao Collective is a collective of diaspora Chinese challenging U.S. aggression and shining a light on Chinese socialism and internationalism. WEBSITE ‣ http://qiaocollective.com Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month, and editor or co-editor of Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism, a special issue of International Critical Thought (2016), Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy (2015), Analytical Gains from Geopolitical Economy (2015), Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today’s Capitalism (2010) and Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009). Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a long time anti-colonial activist, historian, writer, professor emeritus at California State University, and author of twelve books, including Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico; An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States; Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment; and Not “A Nation of Immigrants” Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. Manu Karuka is the author of Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad, and a co-editor of 1804 Books. He is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College. Mark Tseng-Putterman is a writer and Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Brown University. His research focuses on histories of U.S. empire and racial capitalism through the lens of media infrastructure. His writings on race, U.S. imperialism, and Asian American activism have appeared in The Atlantic, Boston Review, ROAR Magazine, and Monthly Review. Pawel Wargan is an organiser based in Berlin. He serves as the Coordinator of the International Secretariat at the Progressive International. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:27:34 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/06de48b1-e085-4d00-8911-466ebd7686c1 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.