Erald Kolasi
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Ep 370 - Empire & Exodus with Erald Kolasi
- Published
- March 7, 2026
- Duration
- 58:17
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 26, 2026
Discusses Erald Kolasi is back to attack the bourgeois narrative on immigration, which reduces it to a series …
Summary
Erald Kolasi is back to attack the bourgeois narrative on immigration, which reduces it to a series of individual choices. He and Steve dig into the material roots of migration, showing how empire, land theft, war, labor exploitation, and capitalist crisis have shaped global migration flows for centuries.They ground the discussion in Wallerstein's world-s…
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Erald Kolasi is back to attack the bourgeois narrative on immigration, which reduces it to a series of individual choices. He and Steve dig into the material roots of migration, showing how empire, land theft, war, labor exploitation, and capitalist crisis have shaped global migration flows for centuries.They ground the discussion in Wallerstein's world-systems theory, defining an empire not by its internal politics but by its extractive external relations, and trace the concrete historical proc