Chris Hedges "Death of the Liberal Class"

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Chris Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus) came out the day of this presentation at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on October 17, 2010 is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Produced by The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY, this event was co-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace.

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@not2tees 13 жыл бұрын

Here at KZfaq University, Hedges is one of my main professors.

@PtAltmVansanTarr 13 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant man. A true truth teller.. Amazing how rare that's become now..

@martinowales9104 7 ай бұрын

Indeed..

@martinowales9104 7 ай бұрын

Edward L Bernay - 🏛🎓🤔

@MarkoKraguljac 13 жыл бұрын

"Solution is not in voting, but in making those powerful afraid of us." Brilliant analysis, commentary and conclusion.

@kimpeccable 13 жыл бұрын

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?

@michaelsix9684 Жыл бұрын

now a decade later, it's much worse, 30 trillion in national debt, endless war, climate change accelerating, weak president, corrupt Congress etc.

@kimpeccable Жыл бұрын

@@michaelsix9684 not to mention the agenda of the globalists for a one world government via organizations like WEF. Smart cities, CBDCs, carbon taxes, digital passports. Universal slavery is their ultimate goal.

@kimshaw-williams 11 ай бұрын

Yes you can

@slimshady22248202 13 жыл бұрын

One Of The Greatest Speeches I Have Ever Heard!!!!

@PtAltmVansanTarr 13 жыл бұрын

Such a powerful speech- this is the first speech in a long long time that has instilled some hope

@bapyou 13 жыл бұрын

The venom and disgust with which Hedges spits out the word "rot" at 3:41 is epic.

@dale3858 11 жыл бұрын

He's not talking about the death of the democratic party, he's talking about the liberal class keeping quiet while our ideals went down the drain.

@maryrodger5130 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimbodriver1015 How does one differentiate between the two parties?

@Hodad3000 3 жыл бұрын

@@maryrodger5130 The window dressing.

@obfuscated3090 3 жыл бұрын

The ideals were academic because (if you are White) being liberal is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL and you can and most do opt out when it's more profitable to not be one. The liberal class are educated such that they do not PERSONALLY NEED a liberal world! Smart people can navigate and do well in any system so we do, and humans evolved to be self-interested savages so we are.

@tinapatton7346 5 жыл бұрын

Listen here and now, and again. Honest Chris Hedges, FORTY FIVE MINUTES - to Midnight!

@pjamesbda 10 жыл бұрын

As the working poor are "pounded into the ground", prisons become the only place to contain the suppressed rage they have. Because the social contract has been broken much in the same way treaties were broke with Indians. It is the way this culture strips away the very things it promises to deliver, and take once again the spoils away from yet another conflict.

@enoskates 11 жыл бұрын

The greatest thing about what Chris Hedges is saying is that whether or not you are left or right, he shows where power is and where it SHOULD be. If you want the people to have power and things to be just and right (whatever your opinion is) laws are controlled by people who's only intrest is profit-money, the corporations.

@marinecorpdvldog 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@bobf9749 5 жыл бұрын

Wish I could like this more than once.

@1979descartes 12 жыл бұрын

On the other hand this is his only thesis I take as being controversial for me. I've read almost every book he's written and get so much out of them. I love to hear him articulate about the humanaties the most. I've also gone on to read many authors he writes and speaks about. I owe so much to Chris Hedges.

@martinowales9104 7 ай бұрын

Pure relevance after 12 years, 2012

@SadieMirsade 13 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. I'm inspired.

@livevegan 12 жыл бұрын

As always, Chris Hedges is wonderful

@gerrythrash 12 жыл бұрын

When the people fear their government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

@laurenganann3457 8 ай бұрын

Came here to hear Hedges speak on the warning he gave us 13 years ago when I read this book and it opened my eyes in many ways. Now it is 2023, and the truth talkers are all silenced. Just like we were told by all the wise men would happen.

@andreaschmall5560 2 ай бұрын

I am listening to this in 2024 and every word he utters is as true ss the day he said it.

@mediasanctuary 13 жыл бұрын

You are the video engineer we've been waiting for!

@bobsmith962 4 жыл бұрын

Yes 90s in effect

@bapyou 13 жыл бұрын

"Patriotism is nothing more than the organized group interests of the privileged class." - Bakunin

@SIMKINETICS 13 жыл бұрын

As a secular person, I laud Chris Hedges as a great Christian! He speaks truth to power, and should be listened to in earnest.

@ActorGuy 13 жыл бұрын

@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".

@PtAltmVansanTarr 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@TheRoland444 12 жыл бұрын

An absolutely stunning presentation that must be be heard far and wide, this is mind bending insight presented by Chris Hedges.

@lordblazer 13 жыл бұрын

and on top of that he is brilliant.

@KhagarBalugrak 13 жыл бұрын

Truer words were never spoken.

@kimjohnson8471 5 жыл бұрын

I suggest you download this before KZfaq makes it inaccessible. This is DANGEROUS (powerful).

@kimjohnson8471 2 жыл бұрын

@@SisypheanRoller yeah. It's longer than a tic tok video. Pity.

@mtaj1981 12 жыл бұрын

Not many people, if anyone, have articulate the problem this well. Good job.

@doreekaplan2589 Ай бұрын

We dont need to be part of any group or class. Its not about labeling oneself. Ghandi, a single person led a nation to freedom.

@rugbyslug 12 жыл бұрын

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.

@rhonda6791 3 жыл бұрын

Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff. I follow them both.

@syourke3 11 жыл бұрын

Do confuse Karl Marx with so-called Marxism. Marx was a thinker who was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment values of reason and individual liberty. He would have been absolutely horrified by what various dictators have done in his name, including Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc.. Marx was much closer in spirit to John Locke and Adam Smith than he was to Lenin.

@BaronWVS 13 жыл бұрын

It takes real guts to say what he does @23:38.

@abyssquick 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@summondadrummin 13 жыл бұрын

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!

@PoetlaureateNFDL 10 жыл бұрын

Chris talks about the corporatization of many facets of our society, which have the affect of killing the tradition liberal class. Have we lost our will to fight against the big corporations, such as military and oil interests especially? What meaning does the voice of one man or woman have in today's plutocracy? I can relate when Hedges talks about flagrant hypocrisy. It is running rampant in the USA it seems.

@mmayermcknight 11 жыл бұрын

Actually I was responding to Killdacrawler's post. I certainly concur with your point of view. The question, "what makes America the greatest country in the world" certainly can be answered with a simple "It's not".

@jsgdk 12 жыл бұрын

@ghfakar “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov

@mendali 12 жыл бұрын

YEAH CHRIS

@ThisSentenceIsFalse 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@Awakenedblue 13 жыл бұрын

27:45

@718xad 13 жыл бұрын

I would really like to see this but it keeps freezing at 3:47

@heidisanderson7768 2 жыл бұрын

And here we are today....2022...Some things are so predictable....The Machine is alive and well...And The People, not so much.......Tragic and boring........The banality of Evil......

@summondadrummin 12 жыл бұрын

Like Chomsky Chris is a great analyst of our cultures politics. It starts to seem like utter doom and gloom though, and this certainly won't work to evoke peoples adaptive and creative capacities.We need a vision or many useful visions of what can help. I like the Transition Movement myself.

@ComradeBuka 12 жыл бұрын

@wareq Good thing you got him labelled then. Next!

@KowankoMusic 12 жыл бұрын

Ah, question answered -- Nader.

@leealexander3507 3 жыл бұрын

Those who choose the nominees control the elections. The plutocrats in.partnership with the party leaders choose the nominees. We then determine which of the two corporate owned nominees serve the corporate class as President.

@TheNuszAbides 12 жыл бұрын

ah, you got to it first - but i believe you meant "far from the only" ;)

@1979descartes 12 жыл бұрын

Tisk tisk, name calling is no way to argue. You realize he is doing exactly what he says he isn't, which is parroting the liberal class. This is the only book/thesis I don't think he knows what he is talking about. He is liberal, he is white, he tries to act like a badass, like he invented this shit. but he is very smart and extremely well educated and understands what real education is about, which is improving the self and the community.

@kragoots24 13 жыл бұрын

Why not go to amazon for the book, Chris? Lots of independent sellers make their living there.

@KEITHDOUGLAS322 13 жыл бұрын

READ 'THE SHALLOWS' BY NICHOLAS CARR

@Available8063 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@GravDiga 13 жыл бұрын

@nanogod goo dto know i don't got time to watch it.

@ProNorden 12 жыл бұрын

12:17 'Freudian slip' ? ..."deemed to be [what?]"

@aidand2902 9 жыл бұрын

12:04 is that john malkovich?

@DolefulLions 13 жыл бұрын

@not2tees At YTU Hedges is the chancellor he took Noam Chomsky's old job.

@kwgrid 12 жыл бұрын

Could be, but the Romney 100ft. bridge gives you longer to look forward to the pain.

@wareq 13 жыл бұрын

@kemokidding You haven't heard his other talks. He called himself an anarchist in one.

@billytheweasel 13 жыл бұрын

I wish all conservatives would watch this.

@Guest655321 13 жыл бұрын

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

@2ndEndingVintage 13 жыл бұрын

Well...that basically tells it like it is here in the ol' u s of a......

@tanvo93 13 жыл бұрын

@iriisblue dude i asked my high school english teacher this..and she was like u know the adminstrators wont like that hahaha

@KowankoMusic 12 жыл бұрын

I'm really curious as to who Chris Hedges voted for in '08. Anybody know?

@sanford943 Жыл бұрын

I would assume he didn't vote for McCain. Might not even have voted for Obama. Pretty sure he voted for Nader. If my some miracle Kuncinch was the nominee he might have voted for him

@jsgdk 12 жыл бұрын

Price controls is bad.. goverment forcing hospitals and medicinal companies into a collective bargaining situation in behalf of the people it represents is great. Price controls should never be used unless the market has become a monopoly or cartel and there is no longer competition.. last ditch thing.

@xexixk 13 жыл бұрын

@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.

@DjWellDressedMan 13 жыл бұрын

If you liked this, see Hedges on TVO's The Agenda, Death of the Liberal Class? Oct 22, 2010 on KZfaq. As a former resident of the US and now Canada, Hedges knows what time it is. See Chomsky - Prospects for Democracy 1994

@sanford943 Жыл бұрын

I have no idea if you are still around after 11 years. I found a round table discussion with Hedeges and 3 others from October 25th 2010. I couldn't find the speech. If you have a link I would appreciate it. I did find two speeched that he gave. One on CSpan and one from Powells book store. I am guessing they are smilar to the one he gave on the agenda

@DjWellDressedMan Жыл бұрын

@@sanford943 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/od6YoZpotbO8aYE.html

@DjWellDressedMan Жыл бұрын

still kicking and Hedges is still calling hte shots, along with Chomsky!!!!!

@sanford943 Жыл бұрын

@@DjWellDressedMan I thought there was a speech there. I did find this round table tonight Thanks I will watch one of the two speeches I found.

@jsgdk 12 жыл бұрын

Low regulation on smaller business. But strong Anti-trust, Fair-play and anti-exploitation laws

@xexixk 13 жыл бұрын

@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.

@AMeatBeetle 13 жыл бұрын

But Obama looked so dreamy in that blue shirt, with his sleeves rolled up!

@endofscene 12 жыл бұрын

Norman Finkelstein. Ron Paul. Dennis Kucinich.

@afaultytoaster 13 жыл бұрын

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

@Frisbieinstein 3 жыл бұрын

I'd be liberal, but I'm dead.

@bobbygnosis 13 жыл бұрын

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.

@jsgdk 12 жыл бұрын

Goverment should generally be very careful about meddling in how business in run.. Competition is one of the main things that make us better, not just at making money :) The biggest problem at the moment imo is profit motive in politics, Corporations have no business running goverment just like goverment has no business running factories, Its not a straight line from left to right tho, Some things work worse with a profit motive other things would not be possible without it.

@ngonea 13 жыл бұрын

see: " America's Darkest Secret " The Nine Stages of American Autogenocide (Revised January 13, 2009) Martha Rose Crow, M.S.

@Meade556 13 жыл бұрын

@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.

@gladius1978 12 жыл бұрын

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.

@HolyknightVader999 11 жыл бұрын

The difference is Bush will write the Patriot act but not arrest anyone who isn't Arab under it. North Korea and China would write the same kind of law, then carry through with it.

@openedto 12 жыл бұрын

yeah but he didn't need to say any of this. he could've just gone to work for exxon too.

@jsgdk 12 жыл бұрын

@ghfakar I concider Asimov a great writer and a much smarter man then me, So I used a quote I liked. Im not saying that the hybrid systems that work well in Europe would work in USA but atleast know what your talking about, Its fine to have an ideology but it should be tempered over time by facts. I think the entire perception and meaning of words like "social" and "liberal" is different to Americans then to Europeans.

@wildmano1965 12 жыл бұрын

Read all the stuff from which he quotes.. He may not be perfect, but who the hell is? One thing I can tell you, CH speaks the truth about american corporatism's "manufacture of consent"

@evilnerdap 13 жыл бұрын

@AndrewMann552 sorry to let you know that it's not the thinkers americans look up to.

@wScott905 11 жыл бұрын

I haven't noticed the death of either party. This man must think there is an Anti-Corporation Party out there somewhere.

@sanford943 Жыл бұрын

That was a stretch calling Nixon our last liberal president.

@TheNuszAbides 12 жыл бұрын

you should get out more. yes he's fighting good fights, but he sure as shit doesn't belong alone on a pedestal.

@enoskates 11 жыл бұрын

message in a bottle. molotov.

@Meade556 13 жыл бұрын

@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.

@TheNuszAbides 12 жыл бұрын

also, taibbi's debunking of truthers was very disappointingly scattershot. still no comprehensive effort that i'm aware of.

@fishhedz 13 жыл бұрын

Watching the audience cringe while the list of horrible betrayals by this administration are counted out... I am so fucking mad.

@ComradeBuka 12 жыл бұрын

@PtAltmVansanTarr Then YOU should join Occupy same as the "young" Chris Hedges.

@workingclasssociety 13 жыл бұрын

@claudelebel55 lowered wages in all countries, cheaper natural resources, corporate profits

@martinjanecek4950 Жыл бұрын

2023

@bapyou 13 жыл бұрын

@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.

@ComradeBuka 12 жыл бұрын

@cashman7323 For someone who can not spell on a basic level, you probably should not throw around accusations like that.

@TheNuszAbides 12 жыл бұрын

who said anything about 'more' attention? why don't you show me glenn greenwald's 'lack of truth', or greg palast's...

@tanvo93 13 жыл бұрын

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..

@bottomhead2518 12 жыл бұрын

First off, the republican party is far more collectivistic than the democrats--they consistently say the same thing with the same language. Right wing America is far more hive minded than the American left. Republicans are the party of collectivist thought; democrats are the party that says society is made of interdependent members working together for a better quality of life for all its citizens. We give our individual efforts, but we also love our neighbors.