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  • Caribbean Thought Lecture Series Part 3: Conceptualizing Caribbean Thought

    Today we explored the question of the Caribbean in light of the conceptualization of the course, Caribbean Thought. We ask, when we study and reflect on Caribbean Thought, including diverse currents that have shaped its present that speaks to a future, how far must we go back? Where must we start?  The answer is a complex one because we stated in class that the Caribbean is an invention of the past which must now reinvent itself in the future if we are to surpass the challenges of the present. We say the Caribbean is uncompetitive stemming from a violent past that continues today through neoliberal Globalization. We did not explore neoliberal globalization but provided an understanding of Neoliberalism, Neo-capitalism and Capitalism. We explain Neoliberalism as a form of liberalism used within economics by capitalists to liberalize economies so as to penetrate thereby ensuring profit. We said that we will explore Neoliberalism in more detail later in relation to its effects on the Caribbean when we watch "Life and Debt" by Stephanie Black based on a book "A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid - a book about Antigua whose experience of structural adjustment and fight for prosperity resembles Jamaica's so that the film could take from the book and talk about Jamaica. This speaks to the symbiotic relation between the West Indies.  We examined the processes of Colonization from the perspective of Fanon who defines colonization as involving a violence of depersonalization - stripping away the individual.   We provided an academic answer/response to the question: Are "White-Collar in Jamaica a Crimes a result of Colonization"? And why are crime rates so high in places like Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica? We suggested a Marxist materialist reply - "Relative Deprivation". What is Relative deprivation? We defined it as the correlation between high crime and high poverty and income inequality. Jamaica/ the Caribbean suffers from high poverty and inequality correlated with the highest crime rates in the Caribbean. This is commensurate with what is happening is black and brown communities all over the world - hence supporting the conclusion/analysis of "relative deprivation".  We pointed out that to study Caribbean Thought is to do philosophical inquiry which involves logic and reason and an understanding of Descartes phenomenology, who coined "cogito ergo sum - I think therefore I am. He recognized the subjectivity of reality outside of objective verification. Further, we pushed the exploration of knowledge by discussing Kant who says that history is a result of human nature and circumstances, and questions Newtonian Physics which formed the basis of western civilization's understanding of reality. The Caribbean as part of a reality of western civilization is influenced by that bent.  We reviewed the economic history of western society and capitalism stating that it is within a system that has impoverished or weakened the Caribbean States. We revisited Adam Smith Wealth of Nations and Max Weber Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism regarding the justification and economic principle behind Capitalism. However, we challenged the wealth of nations by invoking Karl Marx who critically re-examines Adam Smith's Accumulation of Capital idea, saying that it was not one in hard work but theft and violence. This then led us to consider the socio-economic and political interests of the Caribbean such as Michael Manley and Fidel Castro who were Nationalists influenced by Marxists critique of capitalism and his idea of Communism.  Caribbean Political and literary thinkers were off-center and regarded as Democratic Socialists which had threatened American domination/penetration in the region to what they had believed was given way to socialist ideology. This Lecture is given by Rev. Renaldo McKenzie, in Caribbean Thought, at the Jamaica Theological Seminary, January 27th, 2023. https://theneoliberal.com.

    5 hr 9 min
  • The Tyre Nichols Graphic Video: A Black Academic Response to Dealing With Police Brutality Within A Culture of Violence
    We live in a country where some are quick to enact laws and apply pressure that bans black history, so as to deny and forget the violence of the past that has created the realities of black people today, where they are being brutalized and discriminated against within a systemic system that is slow to enact policies and pressure that upend this violence and discrimination as it speaks to the wider issue of accountability and action. It has become such a political issue, which is the strategy that has mitigated and diluted any effective strategy of reforming police and the systemic injustices to black and brown peoples. But thanks to video technology, we uncovered the truth that led to Tyre Nichols demise, yet another black killed by the police within a culture of police brutality and violence.  In retrospect, it was not white cops that killed Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. But today, black cops beat Tyre Nichols to his death. The symptom of a society that has been damaged by colonization, a process that Frantz Fanon call the depersonalization of the individual, the black peoples, for it strips away the individual. It redefines the thing, so as to justify and advance its violent control. It comes from within a neo-capitalistic attitude of power, one that corrupts stemming from the fallen human nature. Fanon wrote, "The Negro is not. Any more than the White Man. He interrupts the usual language of the day to punctuate his violent break from standards, placing a period where a comma should be and changing the comparative constant and value of language using anymore instead of any less. Indeed, if we are to understand the damaged done to the world due to colonization and the fallen human nature, then reading Fanon's psychoanalysis of the colonized world will help to provide an analysis and an effective way forward.   Therefore, it wasn't a few Police Officers that murdered Tyre Nichols, it was a police culture of Police Brutality against black and brown peoples. That hasn't changed since the Black Lives Matter marched against George Floyd/Breonna Taylor. The Memphis Police released the video of Tyre Nichols. This was a violent testimony of police brutality and a culture of violence against black people. It’s so cultural/deep, this callous attitude toward black men by police that policy won’t matter. What else must we do. They don’t care.  Two years ago, after #JacobBlake was shot in the back by #police in #wisconsin! I had written: soon after Police killed an innocent unharmed Blackman in Lafayette, another story developed just yesterday of other police killings of a black man. There’s no end to their violence and vigilante justice proving only the point again that NO POLICY WILL WORK ON POLICE REFORM.  Just two days ago #Police gun down #JacobBlake in #Wisconsin sparking #nationwide #protests.  Today, the Memphis Police announces that it is enacting major reforms after the release of the Tyre Nichols Video, which was graphic showing four black police officers beating an unharmed and helpless Tyre, yelling for his mother. Several government officials and even the White House denounced the actions of the four police officers as criminal and callous. The video showed just how violent the police treat with black men. They vowed legal and political action. However, after George Floyd & Breonna Taylor and the #BLM protests 2 years ago, we had the same reactions and promises which resulted in what we thought were major police reforms.  On June 15, 2020, I wrote that Another Black man killed by Police.... With all the looting and protestations last week surrounding police brutality on black lives and inequities in our system, they killed Rayshad Brooks on Friday; Sadly, today August 23, 2020, I am writing that same story as the cycle continues... Trayford Pellerin, a 31-year-old Black man who was fatally shot...there's been NO CHANGE. Their ability to operate incognito...
    28 min
  • Rethinking Critical Economics 101: The Feds are Raising Interests Rates, Again
    There are man-made fixtures all around us. This is well-known but why is it an important question? It is important because of the facade of truth that becomes cemented in mind, thereby forgetting the human nature that comes with these fixtures steeped in privilege, selfishness and greed. Leading to positions that takes advantage of other peoples. Therefore, we must not take for granted an existence created within our reality bent in the ways of the creators. Or else you will be left behind to hold the stick; you and your children and grandchildren. Hence, Critical Thinking is necessary as it thinks about thinking in relation to thought and rethinks the thought that was central to thinking that has position our thoughts and realities. What is Critical thinking? In its simplistic and basic definition, it is thinking about thinking and what was previously or is the current thought that build on or debunk information that leads to new discoveries of thought and positions that improves life. It is deliberately and intentionally reflecting on truths, challenging oneself whether through introspective discourse or engagements with others. It deconstructs reality by scrutinizing current knowledge and truths we have about ourselves. Critical Thinking is usually within the realm of the postcolonial, postmodern, skeptics or those who are fighting for better leading to effective and progress. This brings us to Critical Economics, which when placed within what we have said about critical thinking is then thinking & rethinking ideas and principles about economics that has come to shape how we allocate or distribute resources within society. It means looking at the inequity and distributional challenges in society today from an economics that aims to allocate resources fairly and efficiently. However, A Free-Market system has not achieved that, what economics was developed or supposed to do - distribute evenly within a perfectly competitive market. It is full of nepotism driven by neo-capitalistic forms of economics. Within a Capitalist society such as the US, where buyers & sellers transact business & set prices. However, the Feds have raised interest rates a third time in the last few months which directly affects price as it affects costs of financial instruments. The cost is passed onto the consumer. Further increases in interest rates affects behaviors in the market. People mt usually spend less and park their money in investment schemes or high-yield savings accounts if they know they're gonna get higher interest rates. Borrowers will have to pay more on their loans and therefore, less people may want to access loans. This drives down demand, especially when demand is outstripping supply given the amount of money in the economy and the limited supply. However, those without money or limited funds will bear the brunt of the cost stemming from the increase in interest rates. Raising interest rates must be understood in terms of who benefits? Lenders, Bankers, the rich, those with money who can afford to lend and garner greater returns from a slowing economy, and those who can afford to park millions in investments and high-yield savings accounts. The rest will see a freeze in salaries and wages, increase in mortgages and loans, some consumer goods given the increase in production and labor costs coming from higher interests on business loans. The cost is passed to the working class so as to keep them working class and to ensure supernormal profit for the rich. The Feds, comprised of wealthy investors financiers, old money and politicians who control monetary policies have come to supply a doctrine enshrined into psyche and academia without challenge. If the Feds increase rates to mob-up-liquidity, it means then that they are increasing the cost of living on the working class so that they can retreat to the usual, working paycheck-to-paycheck, because the thinking is that there's too much money in the economy? But
    1 hr 3 min
  • Breaking News: Castro Vs. Trump, Castro Lawyers Delivered New Suit Against Trump At Mara-Lago Today Ft. John A. Castro

    #BreakingNews: Breaking News: Castro lawyers delivered suit to Donald J. Trump at his Mar-A-Lago residents today in Florida, which sets the stage for Castro V. Trump. Renaldo McKenzie of The Neoliberal Round, The Neoliberal Corporation, moments ago ended his interview with US 2024 Presidential Candidate, John Anthony Castro, and obtained this breaking news update concerning his Run for President and suit against #Trump. Castro lawyers delivered suit to #DonaldTrump at his Mar-A-Lago residents today in #Florida. The suit was filed in the US District Court, Palm Beach on January 6, 2023, which sets up Castro vs. Trump. Mr. Castro joins us today and provide details of this breaking news and more.

    During the interview, John makes this powerful and poignant point that #Entrepreneurs are #risktakers; failures are their friends. The difference between successful/unsuccessful entrepreneurs is successful ones are relentless, they refuse to give up, in spite of failures. “I’m not afraid of failures!” ➤ John Anthony Castro, US 2024 Presidential Candidate.

    In addition, its tax season, Americans started filing taxes yesterday. The Federal government stated that the returns will be lower this year due to COVID funds. You may want to see what you get using the best #taxtool. John is also President of Ai Tax and discuss how we can support his campaign and get a better tax result this year, saying that: “you can do both by trying http://AiTax.com for FREE. You get to see the result *before* paying. So, if you don’t like the result, you can walk away. As honest and transparent as it gets.” He elaborates on this and comments on Immigration, Kevin McCarthy and the GOP plus the Cowboys. John blames Dallas' loss against the 49'ers on the kicker Maher; John happens to be a Cowboy fan, Afterall, he resides in Dallas.

    This podcast is available free-of-cost/can be accessed in Video or Audio.

    The Neoliberal Round Podcast is Created and Produced by Renaldo McKenzie, President of The Neoliberal Corporation. Renaldo McKenzie a Doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University but may switch Doctoral programs to University of Pennsylvania. Renaldo is a Lecturer and Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance and graduated from The University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Liberal Arts and a Master of Philosophy. Renaldo also studied Philosophy at the University of The West Indies, Mona in Jamaica briefly, before he migrated to the US, where he is now a US citizen residing in Philadelphia. Renaldo is working on Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered, a 2nd book with contributions from Prof. Emeritus Dr. Martin Oppenheimer.   

    Donate to us at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support.

    46 min
  • Caribbean Thought: A Case of “White-Collar Crimes” in Jamaica. Does it Stem from Colonization or Corruption?

    I understand from the students in my Caribbean Thought Class at the Jamaica Theological Seminary that twelve million dollars was stolen from Usain Bolt’s account in a Jamaican Financial Institution; a case of the White-Collar Crimes. (Usain Bolt is the Jamaican-sprinting sensation who is a two-time world record holder at 100m and 200m distances/UsainBolt.com) A student from the class asked if the white-collar crimes occurring in Jamaica a result of colonization since we are studying Caribbean history, past present and exploring opportunities for the future. Therefore, as a class we reflected on this challenge in Jamaica and many Caribbean Countries in light of the broader issue colonization and the challenge of the Caribbean since decolonization and the presence of neoliberal globalization promoting neo-capitalistic attitudes of greed, nepotism and corruption. Below is a brief outline of the discussions which is part of a wider lecture on Conceptualizing the Caribbean Towards Developing a Caribbean Thought Academic Journal. 

    REFLECTIONS AND RESPONSE TO A QUESTION FROM A STUDENT IN CARIBBEAN THOUGHT ON CURRENT BEHAVIOR AND COLONIAL PAST:

    Is the “White-Collar Crimes” [1] occurring in Jamaica where the rich are having their monies in banks stolen as a result of colonization? Many wealthy Jamaicans have seen hundreds of thousands of dollars leave their bank accounts, Usain Bolt lost $10, 000,000.00. Law Enforcement on the island is investigating but no one has been held responsible. This may seem to stem from a culture of corruption [2]. Yet, a student raised the issue in Caribbean Thought Class and asked, “does the behavior stem from Colonization?”  Colonization meaning, the periods in the world’s history where Europe and the created privileged White Race engineered and successfully completed a systematic take-over, domination and control of the parts of the world and peoples – in Africa and the Americas. This involved what Fanon had called the depersonalization of the colonized (systematically controlled) man and woman so as to project all things within a European or Anglo-Saxon white supremacist milieu. The question is provocative and provides for a deeper reflection within academic thought that considers human nature, practices and the ultimate. We continue this on the podcast today which is available in video and audio. The entire article is available in The Neoliberal Journals at The Neoliberal Corporation's Magazine at www.theneoliberal.com. Renaldo is a Lecturer at the Jamaica Theological Seminary, and author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance. Subscribe for free on any channel or stream and donate to us so that we can continue to provide this show at no cost - anchor.fm/theneoliberal. 


    1 hr 2 min
  • What will End Violence? Boys and the Need for Positive Influences And News on The Monterey Park Massacre

    If the fallen can perceive of anything better, what will upend violence? This episode is a break from academia to considers important issues in the news and a social problem and personal concern I have with the state of our boys and growing up without positive and attractive influence in their lives. We are losing them to gangs. I'm talking about our boys in Philadelphia who live in vulnerable black and brown communities who have inherited the cycle of operating within the underground economy and all that comes with that. Yet, they are not far from change for they embody "the power of the YET." I share my passions/personal stories from anthropological experiences while living in and learning about the life cycle of older adolescence transitioning to Adulthood. In the episode I discuss with Donte Nelson, Co-Producer about how we can help. We also discuss the issue of Violence. The same amount of violence that it takes to control people requires the same amount of force to push back against that violence. Such is the law of thermodynamics and physics. Yet, violence is the opium of the few and the privilege that continues its position. Violence from below is dismantled, taken to mean criminal, for that is what it is, an attack against a status quo. When is violence acceptable? Is it when violence used to stop oppression and discrimination or the invasion/penetration of the superpowers? But the world has become sophisticated, violence that disrupts leading to uprooting culture, edifices and nature is defeatist for what good is that for the people who must live off that at the end, something must remain. Then we're left with MLK & his diplomatic endeavors that only ceremonial leads to gifted freedoms and his demise, or Marcus Garvey Back-to-Africa endeavors which devolved into nepotism or the usual counterveillance of the dominant. MLK was assassinated & Garvey was jailed, deported leading to his demise. The Archaean’s had looked to Achilles the Warrior God-Man as the consummate hero through violence would vilify the Archaean’s over the Trojans for their thievery. The Jews would look to the coming of a God in Jesus who will plunder all and restore the glory of Judah, then picked up by the Greeks in their Judeo-Christianity of a Jesus Christ as the ultimate savior but departed from the image of War and violence to one of Sacrifice and Love. Yet the church had their crusades a violent religious war against another religious group for dominance and prominence. Today, violence has intensified all over the globe so that even the US today, which represented a new free world with democracy and laws, had its US capitol attacked, by the same citizens who were opposing the decision of its brethren. Through violence led by their leaders, elites using strategy and the usual jargon that enticed the base, led a coup which was an American Experiment by Extremists. Recently, a 72-year-old man went into a Dance Studio in the Monterey Park Dance Studios in LA during the Asian Lunar New Year Celebration, shot and killed ten people and injured 10. He later took his own life with his gun, when police had engaged him. Jamaica is still considered a very violent country with one of the highest crime rates and there’s been a spike in violence in Black and Brown communities in the UK and US, stemming from “Relative Depravity” Therefore, we are everywhere influenced and affected by some amount of violence, from colonization to emancipation and Current aggressions and invasions in the world today. How effective is violence a tool for change and what is the solution to all this violence? Laws that attempt to limit gun access have met walls from powerful gun lobbyists.... So, the answer must lie with Love.... This will be available as an article in The Neoliberal Journals at www.theneoliberal.com. Renaldo is an Academic, Adjunct Lecturer at Jamaica Theological Seminary, Doctoral Cand. at Georgetown University.

    48 min
  • Bonus Video: Caribbean Thought Lecture Series on Zoom: Introducing the Course Concepts Part 1
    This is the Bonus Video of Season 6, episode 3 available on Spotify and our YouTube channel. As stated in the primary episode in audio: this episode begins the Lecture Series at the Jamaica Theological Seminary on Caribbean Thought: Towards Developing a Caribbean Thought Academic Audio Journal. This is a video episode uploaded from the class Zoom Recording as I am teaching the course via an online face-to-face module while here in Philadelphia USA. This course focuses on and explores the diverse currents of Caribbean Thought, which have influenced the development of Caribbean societies from colonialism to independence and beyond. It traces the history of resistance and examines the quest for equality and the challenge of defining Caribbean identity within this post-colonial and neoliberal Globalized world not just within the geographic sense but also in terms of a diasporic sense. It challenges the students to develop and express their own critical thinking as a Caribbean people within a unique way that helps to realize further the hope of a free independent Caribbean that is bursting with hope and opportunity. But the course understands that it requires that students begin to critique and explore their own thinking in deeply esoteric and critical way that deconstructs history and philosophy. At the end they will create their own Caribbean thought leading to a Caribbean Academic Journal of Young academics and future scholars. The Course will make you estranged from self, but it is geared towards getting you out of your bubble and to consider issues that will make you uncomfortable. The WES explored ways that we can prepare students for the global world. That means moving from the local and turning to the global as we are global citizens.
    The course surveys the history and philosophy of the Caribbean, the ways in which the Caribbean has emerged as a society in the shadow of colonialism and emergence of neoliberal Globalization. It examines the central ideological currents of twentieth century political thought in the region and covers broad topics such as Colonialism, Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Socialism, Marxism, Feminism, Democratic Socialism and Neo-Conservatism, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Deconstructivism, Critical Race Theory, Strategy and the Foundations of Knowledge and the Hegemony of Faith, Economic Inequality and Poverty. 
    Among the thinkers that will be considered throughout the course are Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Franz Fanon, Homi Bhaba, Walter Rodney, Fidel Castro, Michael Manley, Edward Seaga, Bob Marley Kamau Brathwaite, Edouard Glissant and the Negritude movement generally, Homi Bhaba, Mike Davis, Nelson and Novella Keith, Stephanie Black and Jamaica KinCaid, Garrnett Roper, Rex Nettleford etc. Themes will be drawn from a selection of contemporary newspaper columnists, talk‐show hosts and the ideas behind the major international agencies and institutions, which have shaped post-independence policies. The selection of thinkers and social movements to be examined will vary with each semester.
    This is Part 1.
    1. Introductions
    2. (32) Privilege, Power, Position and the Need for Critical Thinking | LinkedIn
    3. Caribbean thought, Ideology and Philosophy (Foundations of Knowledge)
    The Phaedo, Plato & Socrates
    4. Orientalism and Occidentalism
    The class did not complete Part 1 of the Lesson Plan and will therefore continue with Lesson on Part 2.
    Rev. Renaldo McKenzie is Creator/Host of The Neoliberal Round Podcast, Adjunct Professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary and President of The Neoliberal Corporation. He is also author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance and is working on a new book: Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered. Renaldo is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University and graduated from University of Pennsylvania.  www.anchor.fm/theneoliberal/www.theneoliberal.com
    2 hr 5 min
  • Caribbean Community in Philadelphia Empowering Peoples in the World on MLK Day
    On the podcast today we bucked up on a group in Philadelphia at Broad & Olney on MLK day giving back to people. We had described the Caribbean Community and it's diaspora as peoples who are "Dependent" when thinking about the type of capitalism or socio-economic dynamic of the post colonial communities of the Global South & their diaspora to a lesser extent. However, on MLK day we visited a group in Philadelphia at Broad and Olney who were giving back to the community, providing various resources and information to improve the community. The group called "Caribbean Community in Philadelphia" was comprised of not only people from various parts of the Caribbean (such as Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Antigua etc) but also US peoples of all races those born here in the US and those Naturalized citizens or residents who originated from other parts of the world. They came together to make difference. The group's Executive Director Miranda Alexander discussed how the group started and stated that Philadelphia resembles her community in Trinidad and Tobago, in a sense. She discussed the group's involvement with the Global 360 movement helping to provide solutions to global challenges including poverty, inequality, discrimination etc. We met up with several individuals including locals from Philly, the Caribbean and Dr. Camille C. Ragin, PHD, Professor and Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Temple University Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. She shares her work in the US but also how she's giving back to Jamaica, working with the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus on a study with the United Nations to explore Life Science and behaviours in Jamaica with a view to improve life and science in that country. I've been a big proponent of investing heavily in the Caribbean through science and technology if they are to be competitive in a world that has become technologically advanced. We have interviewed Dr. Andre Isaac's a former Jamaican now Chemist and Professor at College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts working to develop "ring cycles" to improve vaccines and drugs. These former Caribbean Nationals are working "to make America great", while doing work that can improve their former countries. However, it's not coordinated very well in the sense that we can coordinate the efforts better so that it has greater and targeted impact in the Caribbean. Dr. Andre example wanted to give back but does not know how to. We hope that this program provides a way those who want to give back can do so by contacting their local Caribbean Community in their state/city or by contacting Miranda Alexander of the Caribbean Community in Philadelphia or The Neoliberal Corporation www.theneoliberal.com or Rev. Renaldo McKenzie @Jamaica Theological Seminary. I Lecture a course "Caribbean Thought" at the Seminary which considers the diverse currents and movements of Caribbean including it's diaspora and those connected to Caribbean experience from here in the US as an Academic, Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance and the upcoming book Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered with contributions from Prof. Emeritus Dr. Martin Oppenheimer, formerly of @Rutgers and @Penn and is currently my unofficial Dissertation Advisor at Georgetown University. I am hoping to develop a Caribbean Thought Academic Journal of Young scholars from the Caribbean and it's diaspora and the class Caribbean Thought and the discussions here will help to facilitate that. Support us by visiting https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal. We are available on #iheartradio, #anchor.fm #spotify, #applepodcast #amazonmusic, #googlepodcast, #Radiopublic #podvine, #audible #amazonAlexa #stitcher, theneoliberal.com and renaldocmckenzie.com. Follow me at RenaldoMckenzie or Theneoliberalco at Twitter or Renaldo.Mckenzie and Theneoliberal on Facebook and Rev.renaldo.c.mckenzie and TheneoliberalCorporation on LinkedIn.
    44 min
  • Towards Developing A Caribbean Thought Academic Audio Journal: Caribbean Thought Lecture Series Part 1

    This episode begins the Lecture Series at the Jamaica Theological Seminary on Caribbean Thought: Towards Developing a Caribbean Thought Academic Audio Journal. This is a video episode uploaded from the class Zoom Recording as I am teaching the course via an online face-to-face module while here in Philadelphia USA. This course focuses on and explores the diverse currents of Caribbean Thought, which have influenced the development of Caribbean societies from colonialism to independence and beyond. It traces the history of resistance and examines the quest for equality and the challenge of defining Caribbean identity within this post-colonial and neoliberal Globalized world not just within the geographic sense but also in terms of a diasporic sense. It challenges the students to develop and express their own critical thinking as a Caribbean people within a unique way that helps to realize further the hope of a free independent Caribbean that is bursting with hope and opportunity. But the course understands that it requires that students begin to critique and explore their own thinking in deeply esoteric and critical way that deconstructs history and philosophy. At the end they will create their own Caribbean thought leading to a Caribbean Academic Journal of Young academics and future scholars. The Course will make you estranged from self, but it is geared towards getting you out of your bubble and to consider issues that will make you uncomfortable. The WES explored ways that we can prepare students for the global world. That means moving from the local and turning to the global as we are global citizens.

    The course surveys the history and philosophy of the Caribbean, the ways in which the Caribbean has emerged as a society in the shadow of colonialism and emergence of neoliberal Globalization. It examines the central ideological currents of twentieth century political thought in the region and covers broad topics such as Colonialism, Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Socialism, Marxism, Feminism, Democratic Socialism and Neo-Conservatism, Neoliberalism, Globalization and Deconstructivism, Critical Race Theory, Strategy and the Foundations of Knowledge and the Hegemony of Faith, Economic Inequality and Poverty.

    Among the thinkers that will be considered throughout the course are Marcus Garvey, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Franz Fanon, Homi Bhaba, Walter Rodney, Fidel Castro, Michael Manley, Edward Seaga, Bob Marley Kamau Brathwaite, Edouard Glissant and the Negritude movement generally, Homi Bhaba, Mike Davis, Nelson and Novella Keith, Stephanie Black and Jamaica KinCaid, Garrnett Roper, Rex Nettleford etc. Themes will be drawn from a selection of contemporary newspaper columnists, talk‐show hosts and the ideas behind the major international agencies and institutions, which have shaped post-independence policies. The selection of thinkers and social movements to be examined will vary with each semester.

    This is Part 1.

    1. Introductions

    2. (32) Privilege, Power, Position and the Need for Critical Thinking | LinkedIn

    3. Caribbean thought, Ideology and Philosophy (Foundations of Knowledge)

    The Phaedo, Plato & Socrates

    4. Orientalism and Occidentalism

    The class did not complete Part 1 of the Lesson Plan and will therefore continue with Lesson on Part 2.

    Rev. Renaldo McKenzie is Creator/Host of The Neoliberal Round Podcast, Adjunct Professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary and President of The Neoliberal Corporation. He is also author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance and is working on a new book: Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered. Renaldo is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University and graduated from University of Pennsylvania.  www.anchor.fm/theneoliberal/www.theneoliberal.com

    2 hr 8 min
  • Reviewing Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered by Renaldo McKenzie Ft. Prof. Dr. Martin Oppenheimer
    What is the difference between Neoliberalism and Neo-Capitalism, if there's a difference? Secondly, is there any similarity between Neo-Capitalism and Psuedo-Communism? Thirdly, Is it fair to describe psuedo-communists as s a "cult of Marxism"? Fourthly, what's the difference between Russia and China? Which American President compares closely with Simon Bolivar? I sat down with Professor Emeritus Dr. Martin Oppenheimer to review and discuss my upcoming Book, on which he's a Contributor, Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered, which is the second edition to Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance. This discussions here are academic and delve into global, geopolitical, social and social movements. They are also general and introduce the considerations we are reconsidering in this second volume. The dialogue on this episode will be published an an article in The Neoliberal Post Pilot Project Academic Journal dubbed: Towards Developing a Caribbean Thought Journal and will be available in The Neoliberal Corporation Publication at www.theneoliberal.com. Dr. Oppenheimer begins the episode with a quick critique on the editing errors and then debates with me on whether there's a difference between Neoliberalism and Neo-Capitalism. We concluded that they are different yet Neoliberalism is a process of Neo-Capitalism called the "Bureaucratic Phenomenon" (See McKenzie, Renaldo, Neoliberalism... 2021). Further, we introduce the term/concept: Whenever there's a Black Rising there's a Backlash as a play upon words and cited examples of the black lash: The Burning of Black Wall Street in 1921 and later the Bombing of MOVE and a West Philadelphia street Osage on a peace mother's day while residents were asleep. In addition we talked about Russia and China as no longer part of the Global South with their level of development and explored where former Dependent Capitalist Countries are still Dependent such as in Mexico where they have achieved industrialization and have become modernized. Yet while China has eradicated abject poverty, many are still poor with high levels of poverty. Please Note: Students reading for the course Caribbean Thought at Jamaica Theological Seminary may benefit from the discussions here and may interact with the discourse as part of their their learning and may be source of reference or submitted as part of their reflections, interactions or research paper but should follow the college guidelines for documenting this audio source. Other students from other colleges may need to check with their professors or university before referencing this material. Credits: Rev. Renaldo McKenzie is the creator and host of The Neoliberal Round Podcast and an Adjunct Professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary facilitating the course Caribbean Thought. Renaldo is also President of The Neoliberal Corporation and Doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University, and graduated from The University of Penn. Professor Emeritus Dr Martin Oppenheimer was former Professor at Rutgers university and UPenn. Marty has written and edited several texts such as The State of Modern America, "Radical Sociologist and the Movement," "The Hate Handbook," "The American Military," etc. Subscribe for free on any platform and donate to us at https://anchor.fm/theneoliberal/support.
    1 hr 11 min

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