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Iker Suarez

Iker Suarez

PhD researcher in cultural anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center; author and organizer focusing on neocolonialism, migration, and anti-imperialism

Jun 14, 2026

MamadouHOST
3:55
Why do you say that's too narrow?
3:58
Right.
3:58
Well, yeah, because ultimately we have to understand when we when we look at a social system, right, we have to understand its material basis.
4:05
Right.
4:06
If you're a materialist, we have to understand its material basis.
4:08
And so the material basis of, say, a formation like the United States, right, is chain or a cycle of accumulation that cannot be reduced permanently.
4:16
to, in this case, the political economy of the United States, right? And we can think of on very simple terms, right, of, you know, factories in Mexico or factories in China, which ultimately go to the U.S.

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MamadouHOST
30:52
What does effective opposition to ICE look like then?

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