Hedge is the only person who I see as telling the complete truth about our modern political and social condition - without compromise. Hats off to you, sir.
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He's right...as long as the government is not afraid of the people, we are doomed. Implicit in that message is the terrible truth that it will probably take violence to effect change. I'm not saying that he would advocate violence, but it's the logical conclusion when all else fails.
The Religious Right has abandoned all Christian values. Christ said, "As you do unto the least of us, you do unto me". How can any Christian support any war? The RR allows people, who call themselves Christians, to follow their most craven impulses and instincts.
I'm amazed at the religious people who see no problem gorgeing themselves on wealth and could care less about the poor. I deserve this money because I've worked so hard for it all these poor people are just lazy. If i was even moderately wealthy I would see it as god blessed me with these money and it is my duty to use to make the world better. USA is the roman empire part 2. The republic has died now were 30 yrs into the empire.
If i have money, i dont think if i deserve it or not... its my money, end of story...what you are describing is utter and complete nonsense.
Liberal bullshit. I can afford to help poor people and i want to because i feel really bad for them and that makes me a good human being... but it would much better if good people like me dont give up anything we worked hard for...and instead lets TAKE from all the people who must be evil because they have more money than us nice people.
@epocs The framework that gave you "your money" is what is in question. You accept the status quo which is based on force. We have overthrown over 30 countries leadership, most of them for economic reasons. Then we support dictators who torture, kill, and dominate their populations. Those populations work for 20 dollars a month for our benefit, and our corporations benefit. That is where much of "your money" comes from. The best way to help the poor is to change that framework.
cm7323 & 7' pelican, the referenced quote was originally made by Will Rogers. Many speakers and writers since have purloined it for their own purposes -- using it as an invective against their adversaries -- including Reagan. (Rogers did not use the word 'liberal' in his original.) He also said, "An ignorant person is someone who doesn't know what you just found out". :)
Mr. Hedges and his blatent misstatement of facts calls to mind a wonderful Reagan quote. "It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
@cashman7323 Point out the misstatements. Your comment is too vague. And you sloppily wrap up your unsubstantial comment with a very weak, and undocumented Reagan "quote. I just looked up the quote myself and more sources point to Lowry making that quote.. not Reagan. So again, can you please point out these "misstatements" you insist Hedges makes in his speech? I'm curious.
I'm not an American and had never heard of Chris Hedges till recently. He is most articulate and expresses himself convincingly. Americans would do well to listen to his message.
This is I think Hedges best work-Obama is a wolf in sheep's clothing and a master snake oil salesman. Don't believe me? The man who hangs with Goldman Sachs pirates had Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen singing at his inaugural.
Pete and Bruce: man up-you got had by the Big Mack Daddy.
Thanks Chris for your refreshing and intelligent lecture, You certainly change my prospective of thinking, which until now i really only had bits of pieces about this subject. I think you help me refocus those ideas into something positive where i can reach out and teach with art and concept! I suggest to you to watch the planets series on Netflicks which might help give you a different view or prospective of are life on this planet and maybe how with science we are finding out are true origin
Progressivism has died? The Democratic Party has collapsed? Damned dude, time to party. Except they are still doing as much damage as ever so what exactly is dead except the ideas which were still born to begin with.
Chris Hedges is close but misses the target: The liberals (led by NYT, Time, Krugman etc) are stamping out the progressives (!).
Classical-liberalism IS a conservative (right-wing) ideology -- the American adaption of Classical-liberalism hid itself under a thin layer of pornography & pop-culture (seriously)!
It where 'progressives' who brought the USA forward -- not the liberals! Without social-progress we're only going to kill us -- with fancy technologies that are supposed to be our savior.
I started reading the book a few days ago; I already posted it on my LInkedIn profile among my top book choices; it is SO important that stuff like this goes around, that we start realizing how we are constantly brainwashed by truly junky entertainment and press and we forget what has truly been happening in the USA in the last 40 years while everybody was being drugged by "the American dream" allucination. This is the first inspiring videao I have watched since I saw Howard Zinn life story.
Man, it's both incredible to hear someone speak out like this and also scary that there aren't many other people doing it. The media, except for NYT out occasional truths,has been destroyed.
@KhagarBalugrak it's scary, you can't even get young people to give a crap that their environment is being destroyed by the elite classes, it's pathetic. Truly the roll over generation,the generation that again went to the death camps willingly and knowingly
I'm going to have disagree with his generalization of the Christian right as being not based in reality. It seems like the more I listen to him, the more I disagree. He say a lot of good things but then throws out some zingers that aren't related to or supported by anything else he's talking about.
The elite do not have skin in the game. Their "skin" is fungible. They can retreat behind their walls or to another country and leave us with the flames.
Get ready to cooperate with your friends, family, and neighbors.
It's that or storm the gates. The fact is, the legal system is decidedly against storming the gates, so good luck there, hoss.
independent media is nothing but a small hegemony that complains about larger hegemony then turns around at the last second with their own subtle fantasy of an empire.
As a veteran of the imperial military and a former American "libertarian" I would like to thank Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, and the many other great independent thinkers for lifting the veil of illusion from my eyes.
People need to get an attention span and watch this through to the end! They may not agree with all of his ideas, but we urgently need to begin the conversation on so many of these points!
Amen about the hijacking of Christianity by greedy corporations. I know I got turned off to church when God got labeled a Republican. The Jesus I read about didn't spread this "I got mine, jack--fend for yourself" gospel.
@not2tees I've enrolled in courses by liberal arts professors here at the University of Toronto (one of the universities he part-time lectures at), Chris Hedges is more insightful and more open about what ails our society than the professors here.
Thank your lucky stars, I had to pay in cold hard cash (1200$ a credit) what is offered here for free.
The scariest thing is not that the liberal class has betrayed us; it's that almost nobody cares. Most Americans, particularly young Americans, live in a word of illusion and narcissism where the past, future, ethics, morality, love of the other, honesty, and truthfulness simply don't exist. The only thing that matters to these people is money, sex, the gratification of violent/greedy desires, and self-presentation. If truth be told, we primarily need to resuscitate conscience in people.
One thing that would 'scare the powerful' is viable local and regional currencies.The system is defined and sustained by its money and local challenges to its greed and debt based currency would be a huge proactive step!
I heard Chris speak at Barnard tonight and he was astonishing. This guy is not only brilliant, but compassionate as well. What he doesn't do is sugarcoat the truth. What many people in this country don't understand is that unless they organize and act, we are doomed to go the way of those who let their country collapse under the corruption of the unfettered elite. Can you say Weimar?
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People like this idiot always complains and says whats wrong. But they never give a complete argument as to what will work. You think people want rise up against corporate bullshit? That is what a huge part of the Tea Party movement was! The cell block replacing the slave block? Give me a flipping break! Yep all those poor blacks in prison are innocent, good grief. You think it might be cause they have no morals. Thank God for the Rising hard working blacks in USA, instead of welfarers
social democracy will always be controlled indirectly by the corporations it taxes, thus social democracies are always one piece of legislation away from corporatocracies. long live democratic socialism
I find the argument made here very consistent with my own knowledge and experience. While I'm sure he makes cases elsewhere, as far as this goes, I would bear in mind that name-calling, emotive language and conventional historical memes are not arguments for his tangential positive world view.
@jonjon1333 Another one of those bassackwards monotheisms that curdles the spirit. It is difficult to tell whether it is worse than Xtianity but both are gems and need to be respected more.
Thanks again for uploading this. CSPAN has been running a 90 min talk this weekend that Chris gave back in Dec. Crucial perspective for the times we exist in.
Chris Hedges is one of the few voices out there telling it like it is. If you wonder why the majority of Americans are against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but they continue, Hedges explains why. If the bail out of banks made no sense to you and phone calls to congress ran 100 to 1 against it but still they were handed trillions in bailout money, your democracy is broken. If providing health care for sick children in a first world country seems reasonable but doesn't happen, watch this.
In addition. he falls into a typical leftist intellectual trap in which he lionizes group movements and unionized movements, as if one can merely legislate prosperity, gain a better standard of living because he can organize a labor force. I got news for Chris Hedges, there are 6 billion other people on the planet, many of whom are ready to work and work hard. The baby boomer generation is slamming into a brick wall of reality. Read Mises, Rothbard, and Thomas Woods and give this talk again.
I am a baby boomrer myself, turning 51 next month. I did not realize at the beginning of my work life that Reagan was beginning to redistribute wealth upward. It is interesting to me to see that, for example, raising the ceiling for social security taxes and medicare taxes beyond $106,000 is not even discussed. That is an arbitrary ceiling. There is no reason not to raise it and also tax capital gains as well...while maybe not at the same rate as "earned income".
Very compelling talk, but Hedges is missing a lot of reality from his narrative and could learn quite a bit from the libertarian, and particularly Austrian and Constitutionalist schools of thought. He seems to fall into the grouping bias and places too much emphasis on the christian right as a source of problems - a group that is far more diverse than i think he realizes. And no mention of the Fed, 30 - 40 million illegals, and the 100,000+ pages of annual corporate sponsored regulation.
@winterrosscharlton you have to be kidding or you are delusional. The "Austrian" school? Constitutionalist school? They've been co-opted at the very least and were perhaps corrupt in the very beginning.
Toss away all prejudices and loyalties and the propaganda that the Constitution is a good thing and examine it objectively. This idolatry of all things Constitution is a major problem in the US today because it hinders independent thought.
@SUCKITHARD02 Reality is based on the individual as Ayn Rand pointed out. The Christian Right is a problem though because they are authoritarian and preach intolerance.
ROCK ON! With your EG and Bakunin refs...BUT don't forget Kropotkin while all the others though urban industrialism was the solution to the world across the political spectrum. Kropotkin was talking about what we today call ecology and the natural world and the dangers of big industrial powers. He was the grandfather of the anti-corporate
For all his briiliant analysis, he still doesn't seem to have made the break to radicalism. He implies that capitalism could, somehow, be regulated, and thinks American (liberal) democracy can be rejuvenated.
@wareq He isn't an anarchist, read his blog on Truthdig. He believes in the rule of law, but seeing as how we no longer have it, you can understand why he feels desperate enough to call himself one.
@Meade556 Since when is being an anarchist the same as being against the rule of law? You are mistaking an anarchist for a nihilist (or maybe even someone who believes in chaos). An anarchist is someone who is against the idea of illegitimate authority, and believes that society can be run without rulers. Gandhi was an anarchist. So is Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. And so is Chris Hedges.
@brightsuperstition I see where you are coming from, but if you read his blog you realize he is just out to restore the pre-2000 concensus in American society.
@Meade556 I'd love for you to elaborate on that point. What do you believe Hedges' motive is to restore a pre-2000 consensus, and what is wrong with a pre-2000 consensus? What has he done to suggest this is his intention?
@Meade556 = well I highly respect what Cris Hedges is saying, however if a restoration of pre-2000 consensus
asyou point out is what the goal truly is, your doomed, the only answer is to create a 2ND Republic with justice for ALL, this time. if you think all that has been done against the majority of the peoples of the world in the name of spreading democracy can be skipped over your sadly mistaken, lets do it right this time now that we know what has really been going on .
Chris Hedges is pretty much spot on . . . I just wish that the Richard Dawkinses, the Sam Harrises and the Chris Hedges of the world could see that they have far more in common than they think. Why argue over the belief in a God when all agree that religious fundamentalism is a danger internally and externally.
@SUCKITHARD02: How many times were you dropped on your head by your mother? Hedges repudiates fundamentalism as distinct from the communitarian message of Christ to which he subscribes. The Pat Robertsons of the Christian Right uphold the creed of militarism and corporatism which gainsay the ethics of the gospel, an admiral ethic of peace and human solidarity from which Hedges draws his philosophy. The man is not an atheist and well you know it. Nothing wrong with being an atheist, but he's not.
@SUCKITHARD02, but people like you promote hatred and genocide. That's what the American military is doing in the Middle East - genocide. You are the Antichrist for thinking this is good. Chris Hedges would never applaud such a thing. He's not even attacking Christianity, but those who attempt to use it to bless war and torture.
Just exceptional!!! finally an articulate, intelligent man in America willing to put his reputation and life on the line to question President Obama and the Committee to Re-elect him (CREEPs that they are...).
@AmerikanPatriot and execute the Constitution while you're at it...and to use the rhetoric that folks who seem to resemble you like to you use: If you don't like Freedom of Speech and Press, feel free to move.
It is sad, the poor deluded evolutionary throw backs, call them conservatives. Outside of our enormous brain, the ONE aspect of Human nature which has allowed us to survive and prosper as a species is our drive to cooperate and lend a hand when needed-stress on when needed. Had we not had this imperative and only served our individual self interest, we would have perished along with the mastadons. That is the m.o. and direction of conservatism. It is a dead end.
"Most of the people in jail are people of color, That's not accidental"
A much higher percentage of those in jail are male. Does your logic extend this far, to imply some sinister intent? Or does it work only for the example that you give, to imply racism? Is it single-use logic?
@TreeLuvBurdpu There is an obvious gender bias in the prosecution of criminals. Women get much lighter sentences. How many women have gotten capitol punishment?
This guy claims to know what drives the Tea Party. He has no idea. He is groping in the dark. He has no concept of what drives a free individual and can think only in terms of "class".
He presumes to know that their anger should have been directed at the players on Wall Street, instead of those who rig the field.
I love how he spits out the word "wealthy" like a bad taste.
@TreeLuvBurdpu "This guy ... has no idea ... what drives the Tea Party."
Really? What drives it then?
"He has no concept of what drives a free individual & can think only in terms of "class"."
Class is a reality right-wingers pretend does not exist. Rarely if ever are working people looked at as "heroic individuals." Right-wingers promote ideas such as "individuals" & "free will" to keep working people from uniting & forming a viable alternative to capitalism.
Be ready for the wellfare state to kick in. Unemployment runs out this year. The people in the gulf might be "reintegrated" into other parts of the country. Where there are no jobs. Things might get a bit hairy. Two words:
his argument is compelling, but i have to say that i dislike his use of terms like class, mechanism, corporations, etc. their usefulness in simplifying also obscures the details of how individual decisions and behavior creates an aggregate effect. terms like that attribute conspiratorial intention to individuals where only self-interest seems to be the rule.
his argument is compelling, but i have to say that i dislike his use of terms like class, mechanism, corporations, etc. their usefulness in simplifying also obscures the details of how individual decisions and behavior creates an aggregate effect. terms like that attribute conspiratorial intention to individuals where only self-interest seems to be the rule.
Exactly my problem with his narrative overall. These compartments are useful to his book sales though...
"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology." - Michael Parenti
@mikemojave there sure are a lot of you folks around lately. Best way is to come up as a student. Go somewhere more remote, then just don't leave. Draft dodger style.
this country is slowly going back to old british parliment..we could prevent this if we just open our eyes..we let goverment grow in power in the wrong areas..
@ferrozm The liberal class is so incompetent and hypocritical that it is virtually dead. Conservatives have no reason to complain considering the two parties are extremely unified. The only group that is constantly disgruntled is the fundamentalist Christians who want everything to be antiquated and cult-like.
(Not at all to say that most Canadians are not equally guilty of apathy and self imposed ignorance and denial about the fate and status of their country and well being)
I am a Canadian, and often many Canadians are discouraged and disheartened by an image of 'Americans' that is shaped and conveyed only by mass media. It is encouraging to know that pragmatic thinkers exist on the other side of the border as well. It gives me some hope that there are people there who realize they should identify with their social standing and question and resist their elites.
That "perpetual adolescence" is no coincidence, for it is the adolescent adult who consumes with the least restraint. The most lucrative marketing demographic is 18-25. And capitalism fosters a populace that maintains an equivalent psyche, so as to maximize profit.
@wfmkk So that is why people in their thirties and forties act like petulant 18 year old brats. Okay, it all makes sense now. Keep the people. Market to them hundreds of useless crap i.e., beer brands, anti-depressant brands, college brands, etc. and make big money off of the idiots.
@wfmkk Nonsense. The most profitable age group is the one with the highest income, although you do have to grab them while they're young to keep them hooked. But encouraging youngsters to "be social" (calling etc.) is a great way to make money off of their insecurity.
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. - - John Adams, Letter, April 15, 1814
In his memoir 'West Bloc Dissident,' William Blum wrote that Bill Clinton, during Clinton's time as a Rhodes scholar in England in the late 1960s, passed information about war protestors to the CIA.
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"When the corporation becomes enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow. And the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
Chis Hedges, thank you so very much for your passionate, articulate words.
I would strongly encourage everyone to visit TruthDig for a whole set of important articles by Chris Hedges and also encourage purchase of his books from your local, independent book seller or .... wherever you can get them.
I am not sure why Chris Hedges felt the Kaiser should be left alone to own all of Europe, but other than that, another insightful take on the Decline of the American Empire. The key to corrective action (for liberals) is to understand that change does not come from the top down, as Mr. Hedges says. It comes from the roots. Today's liberals want to vote every two years and expect their candidate to do all the work. Liberals talk and complain. They don't act. So teabaggers run rings around them.
We need to study thinkers like Bakunin, Emma Goldman, and yes, even some Marx and revolt. Let's usher in a new Enlightenment and burn down the whole, rotted beast!
@AndrewMann552 You must be aware of how the political establishment under Woodrow Wilson, used the Palmer raids to arrest, detain and deport radicals like Goldman, Bakunin and Garvey. The anti "red" sentiment was perpetuated up to the present day. You see elements of such thinking when you hear Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck and O'Reilly. It is also present within even our own liberal institutions. We think "better dead than red" almost unconciously-we've been programmed to think that way.
@MarkoKraguljac Solution is im afraid violence as that is our last chance of effectively removing the corporatocracy. Burn down the central bank AKA federal reserve as it is their bases of power their medium of control.
The founding fathers gave us the 2nd amendment for a reason ppl. Its our responsibility as Americans to remove any totalitarian system within our nation with force if necessary. we have to stop fighting over petty bullshit & stand as one people as Americans.....................
& its not just the democratic liberals who have failed us as it is the core monetary system of government that has failed us in 1913 Woodrow Wilson sold out to banking cartels like J.P. Morgen & others for campaign money for the presidential elections at that time frame.
brilliant speech but it has a few errors like the whole "democratic" thing this method of thinking is fundamentally fraud as both parties are under corporate influence to one end or another. If the Republican party over the past 100 or so years were not corrupted like the democratic party then it would have most certainly dismantled & exposed the democrats out of self political interest at the very least.
Hedge is the only person who I see as telling the complete truth about our modern political and social condition - without compromise. Hats off to you, sir.
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Dissidentsdissent 1 month ago
As always, Chris Hedges is wonderful
LiveVegan 1 month ago 3
Low regulation on smaller business.
But strong Anti-trust, Fair-play and anti-exploitation laws
jsgdk 1 month ago
This is way beyond Socialism vs Capitalism
Its about Democracy vs Totalitarianism
If things actually worked US would be better off somewhere in the middle between
Socialism and capitalism with a strong core of Democracy.
jsgdk 1 month ago
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jsgdk 1 month ago
A brilliant teacher.
StringnSonic 1 month ago
When the people fear their government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
gerrythrash 1 month ago
12:17 'Freudian slip' ? ..."deemed to be [what?]"
ProNorden 1 month ago
An absolutely stunning presentation that must be be heard far and wide, this is mind bending insight presented by Chris Hedges.
TheRoland444 2 months ago
Not many people, if anyone, have articulate the problem this well. Good job.
mtaj1981 2 months ago
He's right...as long as the government is not afraid of the people, we are doomed. Implicit in that message is the terrible truth that it will probably take violence to effect change. I'm not saying that he would advocate violence, but it's the logical conclusion when all else fails.
MrFrozenyoga 2 months ago
The usual clueless comment thread; ignores essence of Hedges talk.
vtantonelli 2 months ago
The Religious Right has abandoned all Christian values. Christ said, "As you do unto the least of us, you do unto me". How can any Christian support any war? The RR allows people, who call themselves Christians, to follow their most craven impulses and instincts.
0150Tricia 3 months ago
Talk about saw it coming
I'm amazed at the religious people who see no problem gorgeing themselves on wealth and could care less about the poor. I deserve this money because I've worked so hard for it all these poor people are just lazy. If i was even moderately wealthy I would see it as god blessed me with these money and it is my duty to use to make the world better. USA is the roman empire part 2. The republic has died now were 30 yrs into the empire.
gladius1978 4 months ago
@gladius1978
If i have money, i dont think if i deserve it or not... its my money, end of story...what you are describing is utter and complete nonsense.
Liberal bullshit. I can afford to help poor people and i want to because i feel really bad for them and that makes me a good human being... but it would much better if good people like me dont give up anything we worked hard for...and instead lets TAKE from all the people who must be evil because they have more money than us nice people.
epocs 4 months ago
@epocs The framework that gave you "your money" is what is in question. You accept the status quo which is based on force. We have overthrown over 30 countries leadership, most of them for economic reasons. Then we support dictators who torture, kill, and dominate their populations. Those populations work for 20 dollars a month for our benefit, and our corporations benefit. That is where much of "your money" comes from. The best way to help the poor is to change that framework.
tstruss912 2 months ago 2
cm7323 & 7' pelican, the referenced quote was originally made by Will Rogers. Many speakers and writers since have purloined it for their own purposes -- using it as an invective against their adversaries -- including Reagan. (Rogers did not use the word 'liberal' in his original.) He also said, "An ignorant person is someone who doesn't know what you just found out". :)
zarivad4 4 months ago
at :17 Chris praises the name of the Muslim god 'Allah', conspiracy theorists, are you listening? ;)
donluchitti 4 months ago
Mr. Hedges and his blatent misstatement of facts calls to mind a wonderful Reagan quote. "It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
cashman7323 4 months ago
@cashman7323 faaaaaaiiiiilllllllllll, LMFAO!
donluchitti 4 months ago
@cashman7323 Point out the misstatements. Your comment is too vague. And you sloppily wrap up your unsubstantial comment with a very weak, and undocumented Reagan "quote. I just looked up the quote myself and more sources point to Lowry making that quote.. not Reagan. So again, can you please point out these "misstatements" you insist Hedges makes in his speech? I'm curious.
SevenFootPelican 4 months ago
@cashman7323 For someone who can not spell on a basic level, you probably should not throw around accusations like that.
ComradeBuka 2 weeks ago
I'm not an American and had never heard of Chris Hedges till recently. He is most articulate and expresses himself convincingly. Americans would do well to listen to his message.
2004DAZZA 4 months ago
Everyone that is doing the Occupy Wall street trend should watch this.
idgafjavi06 4 months ago 3
Brilliant. I'm inspired.
SadieMirsade 6 months ago
see: " America's Darkest Secret "
The Nine Stages of American Autogenocide (Revised January 13, 2009)
Martha Rose Crow, M.S.
ngonea 6 months ago
This is I think Hedges best work-Obama is a wolf in sheep's clothing and a master snake oil salesman. Don't believe me? The man who hangs with Goldman Sachs pirates had Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen singing at his inaugural.
Pete and Bruce: man up-you got had by the Big Mack Daddy.
RPenta 6 months ago 2
Thanks Chris for your refreshing and intelligent lecture, You certainly change my prospective of thinking, which until now i really only had bits of pieces about this subject. I think you help me refocus those ideas into something positive where i can reach out and teach with art and concept! I suggest to you to watch the planets series on Netflicks which might help give you a different view or prospective of are life on this planet and maybe how with science we are finding out are true origin
overandoutvid 6 months ago
*insert long hate-filled heavily opinionated comment here
00abone 7 months ago
Progressivism has died? The Democratic Party has collapsed? Damned dude, time to party. Except they are still doing as much damage as ever so what exactly is dead except the ideas which were still born to begin with.
equsnarnd 7 months ago
Chris Hedges is close but misses the target: The liberals (led by NYT, Time, Krugman etc) are stamping out the progressives (!).
Classical-liberalism IS a conservative (right-wing) ideology -- the American adaption of Classical-liberalism hid itself under a thin layer of pornography & pop-culture (seriously)!
It where 'progressives' who brought the USA forward -- not the liberals! Without social-progress we're only going to kill us -- with fancy technologies that are supposed to be our savior.
akkonburike 7 months ago
finally a good man, who understands what is going on. Men like Chris should be our leaders.
edicccc 7 months ago 2
I started reading the book a few days ago; I already posted it on my LInkedIn profile among my top book choices; it is SO important that stuff like this goes around, that we start realizing how we are constantly brainwashed by truly junky entertainment and press and we forget what has truly been happening in the USA in the last 40 years while everybody was being drugged by "the American dream" allucination. This is the first inspiring videao I have watched since I saw Howard Zinn life story.
MariannaNYC09 7 months ago 2
Such a powerful speech- this is the first speech in a long long time that has instilled some hope
PtAltmVansanTarr 8 months ago
"the whole Christian religion has been hijacked and is a mass movement,not a religion" SO true,SO SO true
PtAltmVansanTarr 8 months ago
Man, it's both incredible to hear someone speak out like this and also scary that there aren't many other people doing it. The media, except for NYT out occasional truths,has been destroyed.
PtAltmVansanTarr 8 months ago
@KhagarBalugrak it's scary, you can't even get young people to give a crap that their environment is being destroyed by the elite classes, it's pathetic. Truly the roll over generation,the generation that again went to the death camps willingly and knowingly
PtAltmVansanTarr 8 months ago
@PtAltmVansanTarr Then YOU should join Occupy same as the "young" Chris Hedges.
ComradeBuka 2 weeks ago
Absolutely brilliant man. A true truth teller.. Amazing how rare that's become now..
PtAltmVansanTarr 8 months ago
I'm going to have disagree with his generalization of the Christian right as being not based in reality. It seems like the more I listen to him, the more I disagree. He say a lot of good things but then throws out some zingers that aren't related to or supported by anything else he's talking about.
TruthCeeker333 8 months ago
I can agree with almost all of what he says except for his Pro-abortion views and his attack on Heath Insurance companies.
TruthCeeker333 8 months ago
As a secular person, I laud Chris Hedges as a great Christian! He speaks truth to power, and should be listened to in earnest.
SIMKINETICS 8 months ago
But Obama looked so dreamy in that blue shirt, with his sleeves rolled up!
AMeatBeetle 8 months ago
Well...that basically tells it like it is here in the ol' u s of a......
2ndEndingVintage 8 months ago
Bottom line: We are screwed.
The elite do not have skin in the game. Their "skin" is fungible. They can retreat behind their walls or to another country and leave us with the flames.
Get ready to cooperate with your friends, family, and neighbors.
It's that or storm the gates. The fact is, the legal system is decidedly against storming the gates, so good luck there, hoss.
waddyprocess 8 months ago 2
The venom and disgust with which Hedges spits out the word "rot" at 3:41 is epic.
bapyou 9 months ago
independent media is nothing but a small hegemony that complains about larger hegemony then turns around at the last second with their own subtle fantasy of an empire.
gen6k 9 months ago
As a veteran of the imperial military and a former American "libertarian" I would like to thank Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, and the many other great independent thinkers for lifting the veil of illusion from my eyes.
marinecorpdvldog 9 months ago 3
People need to get an attention span and watch this through to the end! They may not agree with all of his ideas, but we urgently need to begin the conversation on so many of these points!
canemecek 10 months ago
Amen about the hijacking of Christianity by greedy corporations. I know I got turned off to church when God got labeled a Republican. The Jesus I read about didn't spread this "I got mine, jack--fend for yourself" gospel.
canemecek 10 months ago 3
Watching the audience cringe while the list of horrible betrayals by this administration are counted out...
I am so fucking mad.
fishhedz 10 months ago
One Of The Greatest Speeches I Have Ever Heard!!!!
slimshady22248202 10 months ago 3
and on top of that he is brilliant.
lordblazer 10 months ago 29
This guy is dangerous.
lordblazer 10 months ago 2
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@lordblazer "This guy is dangerous."
Yes. Dangerous to the corporate power structure. To the people he is benign and beneficial.
bapyou 9 months ago
I wish all conservatives would watch this.
billytheweasel 10 months ago
Here at YouTube University, Hedges is one of my main professors.
not2tees 10 months ago 70
@not2tees At YTU Hedges is the chancellor he took Noam Chomsky's old job.
starkweather444 10 months ago
@not2tees I've enrolled in courses by liberal arts professors here at the University of Toronto (one of the universities he part-time lectures at), Chris Hedges is more insightful and more open about what ails our society than the professors here.
Thank your lucky stars, I had to pay in cold hard cash (1200$ a credit) what is offered here for free.
PrometheanRunGood 8 months ago
@not2tees HEAR HEAR
thesparitan 4 months ago
The scariest thing is not that the liberal class has betrayed us; it's that almost nobody cares. Most Americans, particularly young Americans, live in a word of illusion and narcissism where the past, future, ethics, morality, love of the other, honesty, and truthfulness simply don't exist. The only thing that matters to these people is money, sex, the gratification of violent/greedy desires, and self-presentation. If truth be told, we primarily need to resuscitate conscience in people.
KhagarBalugrak 10 months ago 5
One thing that would 'scare the powerful' is viable local and regional currencies.The system is defined and sustained by its money and local challenges to its greed and debt based currency would be a huge proactive step!
summondadrummin 10 months ago
"What we have under gone is a coup d'état, in slow motion, and we have lost, and they have won."....wow!
cemott3rd 10 months ago
In addition to Chris' books, this one is an absolute must: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" - Michelle Alexander
Chris mentions the issue of major racial bias in the prison system. It is one of the key issues of our time.
abyssquick 11 months ago
I heard Chris speak at Barnard tonight and he was astonishing. This guy is not only brilliant, but compassionate as well. What he doesn't do is sugarcoat the truth. What many people in this country don't understand is that unless they organize and act, we are doomed to go the way of those who let their country collapse under the corruption of the unfettered elite. Can you say Weimar?
kimpeccable 11 months ago 3
Wow!
richzubaty 11 months ago
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tokotokotoko3 11 months ago
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People like this idiot always complains and says whats wrong. But they never give a complete argument as to what will work. You think people want rise up against corporate bullshit? That is what a huge part of the Tea Party movement was! The cell block replacing the slave block? Give me a flipping break! Yep all those poor blacks in prison are innocent, good grief. You think it might be cause they have no morals. Thank God for the Rising hard working blacks in USA, instead of welfarers
bwnco 1 year ago
print is an image! and of course im listening him bash the net on the net. he wouldnt get past any gatekeepers yet the internet accepts him!
sprucepantherkmt 1 year ago
social democracy will always be controlled indirectly by the corporations it taxes, thus social democracies are always one piece of legislation away from corporatocracies. long live democratic socialism
afaultytoaster 1 year ago
what was so bad about NAFTA ?
claudelebel55 1 year ago
@claudelebel55 lowered wages in all countries, cheaper natural resources, corporate profits
workingclasssociety 8 months ago
Brilliant, incisive analysis. EMPIRE OF ILLUSION should be required reading for every high school student in the U.S.
iriisblue 1 year ago 5
@iriisblue dude i asked my high school english teacher this..and she was like u know the adminstrators wont like that hahaha
tanvo93 11 months ago
I find the argument made here very consistent with my own knowledge and experience. While I'm sure he makes cases elsewhere, as far as this goes, I would bear in mind that name-calling, emotive language and conventional historical memes are not arguments for his tangential positive world view.
-Supporter of unacccountable private tyrannies
Guest655321 1 year ago
Mr. Hedges says Allah just after he says hello. He's worshiping with Islam.
malkooth 1 year ago
@malkooth You're joking right? He didn't say Allah. He said I'll ah...and then stopped and went on with what he had to say.
xexixk 1 year ago
@xexixk Yes I was joking, sort fun to play an idiot Rethuglican Christ sucking moron on occasion. Mr. Hedges is pretty baldly correct.
malkooth 1 year ago
@malkooth Good to hear. :-) I thought surely you must be but I've come across so many paranoid idiots on here, sometimes it's hard to tell.
xexixk 1 year ago
@malkooth Tell me what Islam is and maybe I'll listen to you.
jonjon1333 1 year ago
@jonjon1333 Another one of those bassackwards monotheisms that curdles the spirit. It is difficult to tell whether it is worse than Xtianity but both are gems and need to be respected more.
malkooth 1 year ago
I know he said "our job is not to take power..." but damn I'd like to see him give these brutally honest speeches as a presidential canidate.
ThisSentenceIsFalse 1 year ago
Thanks again for uploading this. CSPAN has been running a 90 min talk this weekend that Chris gave back in Dec. Crucial perspective for the times we exist in.
TheeUnidentified 1 year ago
Chris Hedges is one of the few voices out there telling it like it is. If you wonder why the majority of Americans are against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but they continue, Hedges explains why. If the bail out of banks made no sense to you and phone calls to congress ran 100 to 1 against it but still they were handed trillions in bailout money, your democracy is broken. If providing health care for sick children in a first world country seems reasonable but doesn't happen, watch this.
Bigwave2003 1 year ago 3
In addition. he falls into a typical leftist intellectual trap in which he lionizes group movements and unionized movements, as if one can merely legislate prosperity, gain a better standard of living because he can organize a labor force. I got news for Chris Hedges, there are 6 billion other people on the planet, many of whom are ready to work and work hard. The baby boomer generation is slamming into a brick wall of reality. Read Mises, Rothbard, and Thomas Woods and give this talk again.
winterrosscharlton 1 year ago
@winterrosscharlton
I am a baby boomrer myself, turning 51 next month. I did not realize at the beginning of my work life that Reagan was beginning to redistribute wealth upward. It is interesting to me to see that, for example, raising the ceiling for social security taxes and medicare taxes beyond $106,000 is not even discussed. That is an arbitrary ceiling. There is no reason not to raise it and also tax capital gains as well...while maybe not at the same rate as "earned income".
ActorGuy 1 year ago
Very compelling talk, but Hedges is missing a lot of reality from his narrative and could learn quite a bit from the libertarian, and particularly Austrian and Constitutionalist schools of thought. He seems to fall into the grouping bias and places too much emphasis on the christian right as a source of problems - a group that is far more diverse than i think he realizes. And no mention of the Fed, 30 - 40 million illegals, and the 100,000+ pages of annual corporate sponsored regulation.
winterrosscharlton 1 year ago
@winterrosscharlton you have to be kidding or you are delusional. The "Austrian" school? Constitutionalist school? They've been co-opted at the very least and were perhaps corrupt in the very beginning.
Toss away all prejudices and loyalties and the propaganda that the Constitution is a good thing and examine it objectively. This idolatry of all things Constitution is a major problem in the US today because it hinders independent thought.
itpduder 1 year ago 3
@SUCKITHARD02 People make change by having empowering discussions with others and writing books.
dutytocareforothers 1 year ago
@SUCKITHARD02 Reality is based on the individual as Ayn Rand pointed out. The Christian Right is a problem though because they are authoritarian and preach intolerance.
dutytocareforothers 1 year ago
this video and technocalyps part iii should be watched in unison
embryod13 1 year ago
Ironic the publishers that rejected his book owns the rights to the 2 volume full version of Emma Goldman's autobiography LIVING MY LIFE.
sanacore2011 1 year ago
ROCK ON! With your EG and Bakunin refs...BUT don't forget Kropotkin while all the others though urban industrialism was the solution to the world across the political spectrum. Kropotkin was talking about what we today call ecology and the natural world and the dangers of big industrial powers. He was the grandfather of the anti-corporate
eco-global movement.
sanacore2011 1 year ago
For all his briiliant analysis, he still doesn't seem to have made the break to radicalism. He implies that capitalism could, somehow, be regulated, and thinks American (liberal) democracy can be rejuvenated.
kemokidding 1 year ago
@kemokidding
You haven't heard his other talks. He called himself an anarchist in one.
wareq 7 months ago
@wareq He isn't an anarchist, read his blog on Truthdig. He believes in the rule of law, but seeing as how we no longer have it, you can understand why he feels desperate enough to call himself one.
Meade556 7 months ago
@Meade556 Since when is being an anarchist the same as being against the rule of law? You are mistaking an anarchist for a nihilist (or maybe even someone who believes in chaos). An anarchist is someone who is against the idea of illegitimate authority, and believes that society can be run without rulers. Gandhi was an anarchist. So is Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. And so is Chris Hedges.
brightsuperstition 6 months ago 2
@brightsuperstition I see where you are coming from, but if you read his blog you realize he is just out to restore the pre-2000 concensus in American society.
Meade556 6 months ago
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thegayfaggot123 6 months ago
@Meade556 I'd love for you to elaborate on that point. What do you believe Hedges' motive is to restore a pre-2000 consensus, and what is wrong with a pre-2000 consensus? What has he done to suggest this is his intention?
thegayfaggot123 6 months ago
@Meade556 = well I highly respect what Cris Hedges is saying, however if a restoration of pre-2000 consensus
asyou point out is what the goal truly is, your doomed, the only answer is to create a 2ND Republic with justice for ALL, this time. if you think all that has been done against the majority of the peoples of the world in the name of spreading democracy can be skipped over your sadly mistaken, lets do it right this time now that we know what has really been going on .
ngonea 6 months ago
@wareq Good thing you got him labelled then. Next!
ComradeBuka 2 weeks ago
Chris Hedges is pretty much spot on . . . I just wish that the Richard Dawkinses, the Sam Harrises and the Chris Hedges of the world could see that they have far more in common than they think. Why argue over the belief in a God when all agree that religious fundamentalism is a danger internally and externally.
Available8063 1 year ago
@SUCKITHARD02: How many times were you dropped on your head by your mother? Hedges repudiates fundamentalism as distinct from the communitarian message of Christ to which he subscribes. The Pat Robertsons of the Christian Right uphold the creed of militarism and corporatism which gainsay the ethics of the gospel, an admiral ethic of peace and human solidarity from which Hedges draws his philosophy. The man is not an atheist and well you know it. Nothing wrong with being an atheist, but he's not.
FromAtomsMade 1 year ago
@SUCKITHARD02, but people like you promote hatred and genocide. That's what the American military is doing in the Middle East - genocide. You are the Antichrist for thinking this is good. Chris Hedges would never applaud such a thing. He's not even attacking Christianity, but those who attempt to use it to bless war and torture.
KhagarBalugrak 1 year ago
Truer words were never spoken.
KhagarBalugrak 1 year ago
@SUCKITHARD02 I believe Chris Hedges is referring to the "prosperity gospel" that one might find on TBN or by watching Paula White.
moofushu 1 year ago
A US persecutor of the Nuremberg Tribunal had said there is a "strong case" for hanging the American leadership for Vietnam.
Recall how many times someone in the media said we can legally put Presidents to death for Vietnam.
AndroidPolitician 1 year ago
One of the best videos I've ever seen; on par with Chomsky.
scout6686 1 year ago 4
Just exceptional!!! finally an articulate, intelligent man in America willing to put his reputation and life on the line to question President Obama and the Committee to Re-elect him (CREEPs that they are...).
You sir, have my eternal gratitude.
JStJPhotography 1 year ago
A true patriot questions everything their governement does! That was the whole concept of Common Sense by Thomas Paine, and it started a revolution!!
Arky2012 1 year ago
You are the video engineer we've been waiting for!
mediasanctuary 1 year ago 2
For such an important talk, could the director not even synchronize the settings of TWO cameras? White balance? Anything? How embarrassing.
methanolia 1 year ago
Execute Julian Assange!
AmerikanPatriot 1 year ago
@AmerikanPatriot and execute the Constitution while you're at it...and to use the rhetoric that folks who seem to resemble you like to you use: If you don't like Freedom of Speech and Press, feel free to move.
saranac74 1 year ago
And yet, he only works for money, and won't share ideas unless they pay him well enough? Interesting.
jmccl826 1 year ago
It takes real guts to say what he does @23:38.
BaronWVS 1 year ago
This is letting us know that the US is going down the tubes and pushing us ahead of it. When an empire gets too big it falls.
CrazyOldManNetwork 1 year ago
0:15 allah ???????????
lrishRebeI 1 year ago
It is sad, the poor deluded evolutionary throw backs, call them conservatives. Outside of our enormous brain, the ONE aspect of Human nature which has allowed us to survive and prosper as a species is our drive to cooperate and lend a hand when needed-stress on when needed. Had we not had this imperative and only served our individual self interest, we would have perished along with the mastadons. That is the m.o. and direction of conservatism. It is a dead end.
KEITHDOUGLAS322 1 year ago
READ 'THE SHALLOWS' BY NICHOLAS CARR
KEITHDOUGLAS322 1 year ago
"Most of the people in jail are people of color, That's not accidental"
A much higher percentage of those in jail are male. Does your logic extend this far, to imply some sinister intent? Or does it work only for the example that you give, to imply racism? Is it single-use logic?
TreeLuvBurdpu 1 year ago
@TreeLuvBurdpu There is an obvious gender bias in the prosecution of criminals. Women get much lighter sentences. How many women have gotten capitol punishment?
gcahn2 8 months ago
This guy claims to know what drives the Tea Party. He has no idea. He is groping in the dark. He has no concept of what drives a free individual and can think only in terms of "class".
He presumes to know that their anger should have been directed at the players on Wall Street, instead of those who rig the field.
I love how he spits out the word "wealthy" like a bad taste.
TreeLuvBurdpu 1 year ago
@TreeLuvBurdpu "This guy ... has no idea ... what drives the Tea Party."
Really? What drives it then?
"He has no concept of what drives a free individual & can think only in terms of "class"."
Class is a reality right-wingers pretend does not exist. Rarely if ever are working people looked at as "heroic individuals." Right-wingers promote ideas such as "individuals" & "free will" to keep working people from uniting & forming a viable alternative to capitalism.
bapyou 1 year ago
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Regarding resistance:
"Be the change you want to see."
-Ghandi
bobbygnosis 1 year ago
Be ready for the wellfare state to kick in. Unemployment runs out this year. The people in the gulf might be "reintegrated" into other parts of the country. Where there are no jobs. Things might get a bit hairy. Two words:
Victory gardens.
bobbygnosis 1 year ago
his argument is compelling, but i have to say that i dislike his use of terms like class, mechanism, corporations, etc. their usefulness in simplifying also obscures the details of how individual decisions and behavior creates an aggregate effect. terms like that attribute conspiratorial intention to individuals where only self-interest seems to be the rule.
tincan77 1 year ago
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@tincan77
his argument is compelling, but i have to say that i dislike his use of terms like class, mechanism, corporations, etc. their usefulness in simplifying also obscures the details of how individual decisions and behavior creates an aggregate effect. terms like that attribute conspiratorial intention to individuals where only self-interest seems to be the rule.
Exactly my problem with his narrative overall. These compartments are useful to his book sales though...
jancivil 1 year ago
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Very well stated.
DonJulioBlanco2002 1 year ago
"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology." - Michael Parenti
TheeUnidentified 1 year ago 2
27:45
Awakenedblue 1 year ago
I have been in social movements my entire life...im 55 now..i will never give up!!!!
Labor...Peace... Environment...GLBT...Resistance is in my DNA...what a great man! I salute My Hedges..
SLACKER614 1 year ago 3
If you liked this, see Hedges on TVO's The Agenda, Death of the Liberal Class? Oct 22, 2010 on YouTube.
As a former resident of the US and now Canada, Hedges knows what time it is. See Chomsky - Prospects for Democracy 1994
DjWellDressedMan 1 year ago 3
I would really like to see this but it keeps freezing at 3:47
718xad 1 year ago
@mikemojave there sure are a lot of you folks around lately. Best way is to come up as a student. Go somewhere more remote, then just don't leave. Draft dodger style.
ADeevy 1 year ago
this country is slowly going back to old british parliment..we could prevent this if we just open our eyes..we let goverment grow in power in the wrong areas..
tanvo93 1 year ago
I wish the liberal class were dead....one can only hope
ferrozm 1 year ago
@ferrozm The liberal class is so incompetent and hypocritical that it is virtually dead. Conservatives have no reason to complain considering the two parties are extremely unified. The only group that is constantly disgruntled is the fundamentalist Christians who want everything to be antiquated and cult-like.
dutytocareforothers 1 year ago
(Not at all to say that most Canadians are not equally guilty of apathy and self imposed ignorance and denial about the fate and status of their country and well being)
ADeevy 1 year ago
I am a Canadian, and often many Canadians are discouraged and disheartened by an image of 'Americans' that is shaped and conveyed only by mass media. It is encouraging to know that pragmatic thinkers exist on the other side of the border as well. It gives me some hope that there are people there who realize they should identify with their social standing and question and resist their elites.
Thank you Mr Hedges.
ADeevy 1 year ago 14
@ADeevy Will you sponsor refugees from America?
mikemojave 1 year ago
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WeNeedA3rdParty 1 year ago
@WeNeedA3rdParty
That "perpetual adolescence" is no coincidence, for it is the adolescent adult who consumes with the least restraint. The most lucrative marketing demographic is 18-25. And capitalism fosters a populace that maintains an equivalent psyche, so as to maximize profit.
wfmkk 1 year ago
@wfmkk So that is why people in their thirties and forties act like petulant 18 year old brats. Okay, it all makes sense now. Keep the people. Market to them hundreds of useless crap i.e., beer brands, anti-depressant brands, college brands, etc. and make big money off of the idiots.
dutytocareforothers 1 year ago
@wfmkk Nonsense. The most profitable age group is the one with the highest income, although you do have to grab them while they're young to keep them hooked. But encouraging youngsters to "be social" (calling etc.) is a great way to make money off of their insecurity.
aarskever 1 year ago
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. - - John Adams, Letter, April 15, 1814
EdisonAndHirsch 1 year ago
In his memoir 'West Bloc Dissident,' William Blum wrote that Bill Clinton, during Clinton's time as a Rhodes scholar in England in the late 1960s, passed information about war protestors to the CIA.
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"When the corporation becomes enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow. And the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
bapyou 1 year ago
"Patriotism is nothing more than the organized group interests of the privileged class." — Bakunin
bapyou 1 year ago 52
@bapyou and thats what saved the soviet unions ass in ww2 ie the great "patriotic war". u leftist are so full of fail
sprucepantherkmt 1 year ago
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@sprucepantherkmt "and thats what saved the soviet unions ass in ww2 ie the great "patriotic war". u leftist are so full of fail.."
Stalin was part of the privileged class. USSR under Stalin was ruled by capitalists.
Google, "Stalin Koch"
allgoo19 2 months ago
Chis Hedges, thank you so very much for your passionate, articulate words.
I would strongly encourage everyone to visit TruthDig for a whole set of important articles by Chris Hedges and also encourage purchase of his books from your local, independent book seller or .... wherever you can get them.
Aiden057 1 year ago 2
I am not sure why Chris Hedges felt the Kaiser should be left alone to own all of Europe, but other than that, another insightful take on the Decline of the American Empire. The key to corrective action (for liberals) is to understand that change does not come from the top down, as Mr. Hedges says. It comes from the roots. Today's liberals want to vote every two years and expect their candidate to do all the work. Liberals talk and complain. They don't act. So teabaggers run rings around them.
waltwhitman1865 1 year ago
If you dont take power someone else will fill the void.
Xephon212 1 year ago 4
Why not go to amazon for the book, Chris? Lots of independent sellers make their living there.
kragoots24 1 year ago
We need to study thinkers like Bakunin, Emma Goldman, and yes, even some Marx and revolt. Let's usher in a new Enlightenment and burn down the whole, rotted beast!
AndrewMann552 1 year ago 75
@AndrewMann552 You must be aware of how the political establishment under Woodrow Wilson, used the Palmer raids to arrest, detain and deport radicals like Goldman, Bakunin and Garvey. The anti "red" sentiment was perpetuated up to the present day. You see elements of such thinking when you hear Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck and O'Reilly. It is also present within even our own liberal institutions. We think "better dead than red" almost unconciously-we've been programmed to think that way.
DAngelo136 1 year ago
@AndrewMann552
sorry to let you know that it's not the thinkers americans look up to.
evilnerdap 1 year ago
"Solution is not in voting, but in making those powerful afraid of us."
Brilliant analysis, commentary and conclusion.
MarkoKraguljac 1 year ago
@MarkoKraguljac Solution is im afraid violence as that is our last chance of effectively removing the corporatocracy. Burn down the central bank AKA federal reserve as it is their bases of power their medium of control.
The founding fathers gave us the 2nd amendment for a reason ppl. Its our responsibility as Americans to remove any totalitarian system within our nation with force if necessary. we have to stop fighting over petty bullshit & stand as one people as Americans.....................
Phenixtri 1 year ago
& its not just the democratic liberals who have failed us as it is the core monetary system of government that has failed us in 1913 Woodrow Wilson sold out to banking cartels like J.P. Morgen & others for campaign money for the presidential elections at that time frame.
Phenixtri 1 year ago
brilliant speech but it has a few errors like the whole "democratic" thing this method of thinking is fundamentally fraud as both parties are under corporate influence to one end or another. If the Republican party over the past 100 or so years were not corrupted like the democratic party then it would have most certainly dismantled & exposed the democrats out of self political interest at the very least.
Phenixtri 1 year ago
@nanogod goo dto know i don't got time to watch it.
GravDiga 1 year ago