The Democratic Party and the War Machine - Vijay Prashad

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I feel like the lifting of the human imagination is very important. And that's exactly what we do. I mean, if somebody said to me, what's your profession? I would say, lifting the human imagination. It sounds terribly arrogant and I apologize for sounding arrogant but I don't have a better term for it. We say journalist or we say historian or whatever, but no, I think our job is to try and somehow, maybe with our fingers and fingernails, to lift the human imagination even if it's just a centimeter or millimeter above where it is. You know, that's our job. That's the job of poets. That's the job of people who are political trade unionists, agricultural workers, union shapers and so on. Schoolteachers. I mean, the job is just to lift the human imagination a little bit and hope that people then find the air that comes under, gives them some buoyancy and they can fly higher. I mean, I think that's what we're trying to do, really.

Paul Jay

All right, let's end there. I've been putting off this China conversation because I want to actually do a whole segment on China. So, sometime in the next week, I hope we'll get back together again and we'll talk about the "rivalry with China" and what to expect from Biden and so on.

Vijay Prashad

Amazing. I would love to, because I think that really does require its own segment. And I've been working on that a lot with John Ross in particular. He and I are writing a series every six weeks.

Paul Jay

All right. Thanks. Thanks very much, Vijay.

Vijay Prashad

Thanks a lot. My pleasure.

Paul Jay

And thank you for joining us on theAnalysis.news podcast.

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