You're invited to join us on December 7 for a special webinar with Yale Magrass and Charles Derber, authors of Glorious Causes, to explore how elites galvanize people for war and bring them to adopt political-economic identities which contradict their rational self-interest.

How to join: Click here to register through the Zoom link!

For example, why did poor White Southerners, few of whom might ever own slaves, fight in the bloodiest war up to its time to protect the right of a few thousand to own vast plantations with hundreds of slaves? How did the Nazis gain control of one of the most developed countries in the world, not with a promise of personal prosperity, but "discipline, fidelity, and honor?" How did workers abandoned after the New Deal come to identify with the neoliberal Reaganist elites who exploited them?
 

What: Free Webinar: GLORY - The Deadliest Drug

When: Monday, December 7, Pearl Harbor Day, at 7:00pm-8:30pm Eastern Time (GMT-5)

How to join: Register through the Zoom link!

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In the wake of a global pandemic, abandoned industries, decaying infrastructure, deteriorating environment, and a declining standard of living, the 99% are offered the promise that they can merge with the glorious American democracy, the "beacon" for the rest of the world, even if this democracy is ruled by an oligarchy. Soldiers can be convinced to kill and die for freedom - the freedom of Exxon-Mobil to invest anywhere in the world.

On December 7, join us for this interesting conversation to explore the concept of "glory" and how it is used to rationalize, justify, and persuade people to participate in the failed systems of capitalism, war, and politics at the expense of their own well-being and self-interest.

About Our Speakers:

Yale R. Magrass is Chancellor Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is the author of eight books and about 80 articles, and frequently makes public appearances and presentations.

Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. An internationally renowned scholar and public intellectual, he has written 26 books, translated into eight languages, and more than 100 articles, including op-eds for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, Truthout and others. He has spoken on hundreds of television and radio shows.