Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism

This week on Moyers & Company, scholar and social critic Henry Giroux connects the dots between our political system and "casino capitalism." Also, a tribute to writer Doris Lessing.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Bill Moyers was such a truly great journalist and television personality. He left such a void when he died. No one else on TV interviews such important thinkers as Henry here. Giroux is an intellectual prophet and a very important dissident and activist. Thank you so so much for sharing this great interview. I love both of these men.

[@alexujah9555]

He is still ALIVE...hehe

[@david8157]

Henry Giroux is an outstanding analyst and critic. A great human being.

[@konradfleming5948]

When on holiday in America I could not believe there is so many homeless people food banks and poor people in the usa and same in uk Europe

[@KbcBerlin]

The victory march of rabid materialism.

[@Juan-ud3if]

Moyers and Company Talks should be Shown on MSM if we want Humanitarian Ideals to Survive. Salute to these Good Human Beings who have Compassion. 🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋

[@shadowseer07]

Someone finally saying what we're all thinking.

[@SEMTVP]

This isn't SPAM. Have you heard of The Venus Project?

[@ivorykhan159]

I like this man, Mr. Giroux. He's much like Mr. Hedges. And Mr. Zinn. I thirst for them all.

[@DjWellDressedMan]

...Noam Chomsky & Gore Vidal & Glen Greenwald & Jeremy Scahill ...

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

I love em. All great men. Unfortunately Glen has gone crackpot. Hes a conservative tool now. He lost all credibility when he went on tucker Carlson. Can you imagine any of those other people doing that?

[@9avedon]

@@LukeMcGuireoides So free speech is not allowed , you'r the nut job . Thank God Twitter is no longer controlled by your kind.

[@altor1950]

Henry Giroux shows us how to Inform, to Resist, to Create - He reminds us of the missing links we need in order to aspire for a continuity of Hope in a Future to live in a comprehensive Democratic Reality! His intellectualizations touch me as those of a Gandhi, a King, a Mandela or a Gramsci.

[@Rickwmc]

One example of "economic cruelty" occurs in the workplace. New hires who get training and then complain they need more training to do the job properly do not get more training. They are summarily FIRED and replaced with one of sixty other applicants panting for the job.

[@Zhushika]

Spartaculus Jones It's part of our Profits over People policy that is pretty much status quo and mandated in our Corporations.

[@shaunbrowne3963]

Spartaculus Jones, you've touched on a significant point on new hires. Workers are not endlessly replaceable. I know of one organization that refuses to train their employees because they will leave for other jobs. The people who are at the lowest level of the organizations actually add more value to the customer or end-user than the CEO. As an example, the dishwasher, the lowest person is the dishwasher, yet your impression of the restaurant is determined by the cleanliness of the plates and glasses, not the CEO. Your point is well made!

[@catconclusion2003]

This man is a true prophet.

[@DjWellDressedMan]

Then Obama in 2013, Now 2018 in the time of Trump and everything Giroux says has come true to the power of ten!

[@chriscorcoran4839]

A brilliant intellectual.

[@Larkinchance]

It's not exactly rich people, it's the money managers of big blocks of capital that are in for a percentage of quarterly improvements on these fortunes. It's the money managers that lobby Washington for tax breaks and reductions to preserve their interests. Most people that have family wealth in the billions worry about dinner, travel to some resort or pine over some love affair. If their fortunes were cut in half, they wouldn't know the difference..

[@Juan-ud3if]

Henry Giroux Compassion is Amazing and Praise Worthy. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@aerofart]

EXCELLENT!

[@SEMTVP]

This isn't SPAM. Have you heard of The Venus Project?

[@aerofart]

Ryan Lewis Yes, I had come across mention of it a while back - I think it was a video or maybe an article. Seems like something that the inhabitants of this world might consider in a hundred years from now or in however long a time it takes for things to really get nasty - but until then, it will probably be dismissed as a utopian dream - taking a back seat to just about any other manufactured distraction, of course.

[@SEMTVP]

If you want to learn more, for example how it actually could be happening today (not in a 100 years) I have written a free book. You can check it out for free and read it for free at my website: the lens of truth [dot] org.

[@aerofart]

Ryan Lewis I'll check it out. Thanks!

[@stuartwray6175]

Appears particularly prescient 5 years on. Feels as if his view of an injurous economy and scewed politics together with the need to break through a generalized social inertia is more pervasive, has gained traction in 2018.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

And yet still today

[@Rickwmc]

I've worked at a dozen jobs where the owner of the business arrives to his office driving a Lexus while his or her employees arrive to work on the bus.

[@MrJohnbatist]

+Spartaculus Jones welcome to america!

[@beta447]

Brilliant!

[@SEMTVP]

This isn't SPAM. Have you heard of The Venus Project?

[@beta447]

Ryan Lewis No, thanks for turning me onto it. I'm fascinated. =)

[@SEMTVP]

You're welcome. If you'd like more information, I've written a free book. If you go to my website the lens of truth dot org, you can download it in multiple formats.

[@VolcanicPenguin]

How The World Really Works Hah I love your username lol.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

...if only there were hundreds of thousands more teachers like him.

[@StellarFella]

Trumputin! Trumputin! You're darned tootin! We've got TRUMPutin!

[@ArtsAlign]

The zombies are in power. How easy it must be then that we will overcome them, who are disconnected from the greater mind.

[@francispetaluma]

wow, what he states at 37:43, so true!

[@rottenaudiobooks2310]

25:35 "Why aren't we more outraged? Why arent we in the streets?" I think the answer is...Fear. Fear of losing what we have. Fear of being demonized. Chris Hedges said "if you stand with the oppressed, you will be treated like the oppressed."

[@leealexander3507]

The memory of our anti-war demonstration having Richard Nixon terrified that we were going to break into the Whitehouse and get him still makes me smile all these years later. It's all I can do to avoid breaking out in laughter. No one I knew of had any intention of breaking in but when I later heard how badly we scared him it pleased me to no end. I wish I were still capable of protesting.

[@leealexander3507]

And yes, it's absolutely true that we were demonized. The media was downright ugly about both the war activists and the civil rights activists. There was a certain amount of overlap between the two but not to the point we were one and the same.

[@worldadventuretravel]

Thank you for disclosing all of the tax-free foundations sponsoring the show right up front. That way, anyone smart enough to follow the money knows exactly where the conflicts of interest lie.

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

This entire program is a conflict of interests for corporate America. If the donors cared who appeared on this program they never ever would have allowed Giroux, or even Bill Moyers himself, to speak. Those companies have no say in who appears on the program or what they say. To them this is nothing more than a huge tax write off.

[@Guitarpima]

I always thought of zombies as a metaphor for the rich trying to get away from the masses. I never thought about what happened to black people as a correlation. However, I do not see well. At the time I could, now I am blind. In reality, once I realized it would never happen, I never thought that much about zombies. This is interesting.

[@MelancoliaI]

Larry King with Han Solo hair

[@SEMTVP]

BILL. Henry. Look into The Venus Project

[@arawn10]

Henry Giroux is like if Mick Jagger decided to stay in Economics like he originally planned..

[@wanderkunstler]

great guy. sounds like woody allen

[@raphaelbernard7954]

All the comments below show that we all see what we face. What we do though is not commented on. I suppose the first step is know your enemy we are doing that listening to Henry, Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Paul Craig Roberts, etc we need to all break out of our straight jackets and protest and like the fore fathers who faced the same constraints and died for their civil rights i.e. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Harvey Milk, Che Guevara. Spartaculus Jones, Suzanne Nichols and others below are examples of the intelligent people who Henry talks about that will lead us out of the wilderness of corporatism, cronyism, market tyranny, neo-liberalism, banksters, bad cops, corporate media.

[@selfsameday7448]

A tree fell inside the Amazombie !

[@sa-iw4dr]

We are long overdue to take to the Streets!

[@mrjones7222]

T hanks

[@cliffmorgan31]

Need balance.... the extremes are winning.

[@Caffein780]

He is absolutely correct that we need a third new party!

[@thefakenewsnetwork8072]

Long live freedom and democratic communism

[@thisnthat1070]

where is the rage?

[@NolomEbal44560]

I'm not sure that people care and I just don't understand why.

[@SpringwaterParkcc]

Prof. Giroux: America's loss but Canada's great gain.

[@9avedon]

Thank God Canada gave us Jordan B Peterson.

[@zaggazow3727]

It is so ironic that America is the safest country on earth and yet the most crippled with fear....

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

I dont believe it's the safest at all

[@KilgoreTroutAsf]

It's time to realize we can't afford the rich anymore.

[@ruvstof]

I doubt. There is an increase of competition, from China, to give an example. Would the people in USA accept to have the salary of a chinese worker? For me the problem is the globalization, not the rich ones. But it is absurd to stop globalization.

[@emilykrahn3185]

2018. Trump. Zombie apocalypse.

[@josiahsuarez]

D:

[@mahendrakumarmalik3902]

India economy going top within 100 year

[@scribblerlarry]

Dear me, how can such intelligent, educated, knowledgeable people still conflate our social system with our economic one? Our social system - poor wee remnants that still exist - is NOT capitalism. Nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with capitalism. Our present economic system is a "Greed-capitalist" one. As do all economic systems, it operates on its own precepts and has developed certain 'rules' that are designed to enhance our achieving of the ultimate goals of THIS FORM of the capitalist system. The goals of any good social system are those things which enhance the lives of the members of the society. This is the job of a social system. The goals of our present form of greed capitalism have to do with net profit. This is the useful area of an economic system. We may allow the economic system to dominate the entire society and insist that all within the society work for the economic system's goals. Or we may insist that the social system be dominant and use the economic system as a valued and valuable tool with which to meet the needs and wants of the population. Capitalism can serve this need admirably so long as we never allow the "greed" aspect of it to dominate it. But make no mistake; the two systems cannot be blended. They are separate in goals, methods, end results and use to human beings. One MUST always dominate and make use of the other. ALWAYS! They may comfortably exist side by side in the same society ONLY if the social system is in complete control of the economic one. If the economic system is in control, the people become the slaves of the system and net profit becomes the ultimate goal. Sadly we have attempted to build a society with the economic system dominant. You see the results. It is time to dump this silly inverted "the people must work for the benefit of the economic system" nonsense and try to build a society where "the economic system must work for the benefit of the people. Democracy is a form of social system, NOT a form of economic system. Pay no heed to those who will speak of democracy and greed capitalism in the same breath. But......never forget that democracy must protect itself from any other system - including an economic one - which will weaken or destroy or pervert it. Pass the right laws. Enforce them with vigour and unhesitatingly, and use them with the care and intelligence with which you'd use any other dangerous, valuable, wonderful tool.

[@sa-iw4dr]

Vote for Bernie Sanders! More people need to see this!

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Too late, I'm afraid. I dont see him running again and if he did he would probably get screwed out of the primary again

[@seancarberry3191]

Back again after they shut down wallstreetbets because of gamestop

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

10 years old and seems to be talking about the current political landscape in 2024 . Casino capitalist zombie politics

[@oldcrone]

The most noble are the homeless. They have no need of capitolism.

[@conniewalker-carter5835]

The ABCs

[@MrJohnbatist]

+Connie walker-carter ---and the XYZs

[@rottenaudiobooks2310]

Well...the prototypical Incel definitely fits into the worldview he's describing. Likewise the Incels fall into the trap of scapegoating the wrong group and thus become zombies themselves.

[@jmichealsmith99]

Look @ who is sponsoring this shit. Carnegie? Who's kidding who?

[@luiseduardolopez2128]

One word this two people avoid was fascim.

[@Juan-ud3if]

9 years ahead, we're even Worse. Assange is dying in Prison. 9 years ago Moyers describe's America as Descending into Insanity. So what's the Situation in 2023? Did America get Psychotherapy? Does'nt look like it, the Cancer has Spread. Urgent Surgery Required.

[@christinetrzcinski4561]

what he is saying or espouses is so apparent and true yet moyers acts like what he is saying is incomprehensive and doesn't perceive or understand at all....like he is very obtuse

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Bill is asking the questions he knows are the questions which are in the minds of the viewers. He fully understands it all and agrees with most of all of it, I'm sure. Bill Moyers was a reap American treasure. His death left a huge void

[@Rickwmc]

Sorry, but money rules.

[@geraldlafleur5489]

Mr. Giroux, why don’t you accept the simple fact that this civilization, like all previous ones, has to go in order to put into practice the beautiful ideas that you so cleverly expose in this video, ideas that everybody with a conscience and a functioning brain knows it’s true. Not only do I believe civilization must collapse, but the fastest the better. Why? Because at an extinction rate of 100 to 200 species a day, I wish it would happen tomorrow. Than, you and me, could get together, look at the what’s left of that beautiful planet and plan “For Real”.

[@Jaapst]

Your crazy