Video of Presentation at Charleston Southern University

Charles McKelvey

September 17, 2013


Outline of the presentation

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Introduction by Dr. Paul Roof, Associate Professor of Sociology, Charleston Southern University (a former student of mine, who graduated from Presbyterian College in 1994 and who participated in experiential courses in Honduras and Cuba)

10:04   Introduction (the method of our conversation/dialogue; personal experiences that formed my perspective and influenced my teaching)

17:11   Cross-horizon encounter (seeking to understand what is true and do what is right)

22:11   The Third World perspective: the importance of conquest in sharping the world; conquest and domination have reached their geographical and ecological limits

31:39   The structures of the world system: the geographical division of labor between core and periphery

36:06   The emergence of national liberation movements (including brief mention of Jefferson, Lincoln, Marx, Lenin, the Vietnamese Revolution, the Cuban Revolution, and Latin America today)

51:36   Neocolonialism

52:28   Cuba

53:31   Latin America today

54:21   Conclusion: Encounter Third World movements

58:36   Questions: I take time to listen to questions and to encourage full formulation

1:02:08   Response to questions: on alienation from our culture; an alternative world-system is being developed in practice by the Third World; on the wisdom of the oppressed; on localism; on the faith of the oppressed and the cynicism of the North; on what can be done; on the meaning of revolution

1:19 ends