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Yeah, I think one was, there was a idolizing of unfettered markets.
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And much, if not most, of the intelligentsia were duped.
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I recall traveling with my dear brother Michael Harrington talking with Brother Stanley Aronowitz years ago,
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and, you know, here we're engaging critiques of unfettered markets, and it looked as if we were medieval thinkers.
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Everybody was saying we're followers of Milton Friedman.
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Everybody was saying Frederick Hayek got it right.
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Everybody was saying marketize, commercialize, commodify.
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And we were still reading Lukács, and Lukács was saying commodification is not simply an asymmetric relation of power,
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of bosses vis -a -vis workers.
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So workers are being more and more marginalized.
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Profits are being produced, wealth is being produced, hemorrhaged at the top.
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No fair distribution of that wealth or profit for workers.
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Poor are being demonized because they are viewed as those persons who are irresponsible, who will not work, who are always looking for welfare,
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i .e., failures in the society of success.
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And we reached the brink and the chickens came home to roost.
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And a few years ago the unfettered markets led us off and over the brink.
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And all of a sudden very few intellectuals want to be honest and acknowledge the degree to which they were duped.
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Don't want to talk about the inequality that went along with it.
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Don't want to talk about the demonization of the poor that went along with it.
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Don't want to talk about the politics of fear
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that produced a republican party that was more
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and more lily white using not just race but also demonizing gay brothers
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and lesbian sisters you see don't want to talk about the indifference toward the poor
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and greed being good and desirable and so forth now it's a very different moment
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and it's not you know just about a pointing fingers but saying somebody's got to take responsibility for this.
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This was a nearly 40 -year run.
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Who paid the cost?
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That's usually the case.
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Poor working people paid the cost, disproportionately black and brown and red.
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So in the age of Obama, we say, okay, can we have a different kind of discussion?
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And that's what we're trying to do.
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But of course, you've got two wars going on.
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You've got still Wall Street in the driver's seat in the Obama administration when it comes to the economic team, you see?
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And you've got very, you know, I think in some ways unimaginative thinking when it comes to foreign policy,
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be it the Middle East or be it European Union or be it Latin America, you know, calling Chavez a dictator, the man's been elected.
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If he's calling in the question of rights and liberties, criticize him as a Democratic president.
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We did the same thing for Bush.
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Bush was calling him the question rights and liberty.
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We didn't call him a dictator.
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We said he's a democratic elected president who's doing the wrong thing.
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Chavez ought to be criticized.
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He's not a dictator.
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The man's been elected.
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But it's that kind of demonizing that obscures and obfuscates the kinds of issues that are necessary because
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Chavez is also talking about poor people.
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Of course, I want libertarian and democratic sides.
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I want rights and liberties and empowerment of poor people.
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But talking about poor people is not a joke it's crucial it's part
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and parcel of the future of any serious democratic project the
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fundamental question of any democracy is what is the relation between public
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and interests and the most vulnerable that's the question
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that is the question the test of your rule of law
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is going to be how are the most vulnerable being treated
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it's not whether the torturers are getting off we know the
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tortures don't have a rule of law applied to them the The wiretappers, they're getting off scot -free.
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What about Jamal with the crack bag?
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Taken to jail for seven years.
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Oh, so you got a different rule of law when it comes to Jamal on the corner versus your
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torturers and your wiretappers?
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Torture is a crime against humanity, it's not just illegal, wiretapping is illegal.
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Now it's not a crime against humanity, because I mean, I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years.
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I don't think they commit the crime against humanity, they just ought to quit doing it, I think to keep you in mind,
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the demos is always heterogeneous, diverse, got a lot of xenophobic elements among the demos,
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a lot of ignorance, a lot of parochialism, you also have a lot of cosmopolitanism, a lot of globalism, a lot of courage, moral courage.
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So the demos is not one thing.
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But when it comes to the ability of the demos to organize, mobilize, and bring power and pressure to bear.
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we certainly are in a crisis our system is broken we've got 71 of people who want universal health care
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and you can barely get through a reform bill with a
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weak public option it's clear lobbyists from the top pharmaceutical companies
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drug companies have tremendous influence much more than the demos from below you see
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so that that those those preferences don't get translated easily
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because our politicians are beholden to that big money and that big influence
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but i mean the demos are still around thank god you got your own institution
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dialogue dialogue is the lifeblood of a democracy we gotta allow
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ideas to flow you have to expose people to different visions alternative arguments
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and so on to try to keep the torch of the progressive demos alive
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but it's very difficult to to organize it complacency is deep
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apathy is deep uh people are wondering how can you confront you know big finance big
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government tied to big finance when all you got is these little people
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who are willing to talk and so forth
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but have tremendous power bringing uh serious pressure to bear we
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can march you know we marched against the war by the
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millions we were ignored by the bush administration some of us
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went to jail we were ignored we couldn't translate the foreign policy That happened sometimes.
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It was different in Vietnam.
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15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| demo zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɛm.oʊ/ | demo, demonstratie |
| worker zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈwɝ.kɚ/ | arbeider, arbeidster |
| liberty zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈlɪbəti/ | vrijheid |
| humanity zelfstandig naamwoord | /hjuˈmænɪti/ | mensheid, mensdom |
| elect werkwoord | /ɪˈlɛkt/ | kiezen, uitkiezen |
| dictator zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɪkˌteɪtəɹ/ | dictator |
| ignore werkwoord | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | negeren |
| courage zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkʌ.ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | moed, dapperheid |
| relation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ | familielid, bloedverwant |
| dialogue zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ | dialoog, gesprek |
| vulnerable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈvʌln(ə)ɹəbl̩/ | kwetsbaar |
| torture zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈtoɹt͡ʃɚ/ | marteling, foltering |
| tremendous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /tɹɪˈmɛndəs/ | ontzagwekkend |
| organize werkwoord | /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ | organiseren |
| translate werkwoord | /tɹænzˈleɪt/ | vertalen, overzetten |
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| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| get off werkwoord | van ... afgaan |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | were duped · being produced · being demonized |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | man's been elected · I've had |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 20 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, we're, you've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: apathy /ˈæ.pə.θi/, thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: relation /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/, institution /ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, commercialize /kəˈmɚʃəˌlaɪz/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, institution /ˌɪn.stɪˈtʃuː.ʃən/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, intellectual /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/
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