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Fascinating. Makes a good case for self reliance, especially in cultivating your passions outside of the cloud matrix. It requires heavy curation of one’s life experiences, consumer habits and social media feeds. In these times I’ve found some relief in taking the long view of feudalistic cycles across human evolution. That and a strong sense, as a retired educator and non-Luddite (constantly on a tech learning curve), I believe we have made strides in social justice by keeping activism alive through technology. I would’ve liked to hear more from Chris’s and Yanis on what Trump is bringing (or thinks he’s bringing) to the table, in the midst of all of this chaos, economic and otherwise. It feels dangerous. Overall, an illuminating interview. Thank you.

WEB Dubois, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880, published in 1935: (italics added by me) "...a new super-dictatorship rose. The dictatorship of property... This was not a petty bourgeois development, following the overthrow of of agrarian feudalism in the South. It was, on the contrary, *a new feudalism based on monopoly*- but not monopoly of the agricultural possibilities of the land so much as of its wealth in raw material, in copper, iron, oil, and coal, *particularly monopoly of the transportation of these commodities* on new public iron roads privately sequestered, and finally, of the manufacture of goods by new machines and privileged technique. *This new feudalism* was destined to crush the small capitalist as ruthlessly as it controlled labor, and even before the panic of 1873 it was beginning to consolidate its power. The copper of Michigan, the coal, steel and oil of Pennsylvania, came under the control, and at the same time the bankers and financiers began to bend the manufacturers and the railroads to their will by their monopoly of investment capital and direction of its distribution. ... Great corporations, through control of new capital, began to establish a super-government. ...they made treaty with the petty bourgeoisie by guarantying them reasonable and certain income from their investments, while they gradually deprived them of real control in industry. And finally, they made treaty with labor by dealing with it as a powerful, determined unit and dividing it up into skilled union labor, with which the new industry shared profit in the shape of a higher wage and other privileges, and a great reservoir of common and foreign labor which it kept at work at low wages with the threat of starvation and with police control."

The lack of Peace and Reconciliation across the board after WW2 has created this situation. Many Jews should have been able to go back home to countries where they were from. Soviets lost 25 million people for God sakes. The perpetrators are the wealthy and and the few. The rest are peace loving people who could care less about your religion.

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You are great Hedge-manThanks!

Chris Hedges tribute to Ruba is brilliant .Ruba sounds like a really wonderful woman .God bless❤

All central banks work against their people by issuing their only product, inflation. All this can be fixed if we return back, at least partially, to a commodity/gold backed system. Great perspective, Yanis!

Digital serfdom is already here but most of the youth are too blind to see it. They, stupidly think it so smart to use their phones to buy everything but that very phone will enslave and imprison them.

Good vs evil is not a helpful model of the human predicament. Morality is not real. It comes from developing language wherein we described to each other what we preferred. Later we invented "gods" to represent the values emerging from our described preferences. Good vs evil modeling only preserves the madness.

Is there Anyone in politics who is decent and honest anymore!! I voted for the lesser of 2 evils Thank you, Chris Hedges for your distinctive and honest journalism.

Thank you, Chris and Ruba, i feel totally broken and powerless... speaking about what's happening is all I do, and it feels like nothing is changing in the great picture of things... thank you for the glimpse of hope and beauty and for the reminder that we must go on

How do you account for the middle class and wealthy Trump voters that aren’t facing the same economic despair?

I totally agree. We need to use technology to benefit all of society. In a resource-based economy (Venus Project) that is exactly what happens.

Great interview, as usual. It would have been good, however, to have also discussed with Yanis Varoufakis his Appendix I on 'The Political Economy of Technofeudalism' (which he wrote for his 'Marxist friends') as this explains (quite correctly, in my view) how technofeudalism rests on the basis of capitalism itself - as outlined by him in terms of Marx's critique of political economy. For, as Yanis Varoufakis clearly shows, technofeudalism is a mode of production which not only arises out of capitalism but also is something which cannot exist without it. Keep up the great work!!!

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When you choose between ,cooperation or competition,in world of materialism,and capital, none of both works , it’s just because when you compete,it’s limitless desire,with limited resources, and for majority materialistic ideology,where the successful is who own bigger capital or property, and that means no opportunist every Occasion raises ,use anybody you can to claim up there, GREED .and when you cooperate in the same conditions we mentioned you end up with cartels like you said, human civilization always end up drowning in its own misery!! If you don’t believe!! You are doomed by yourself,as person or as nation. Because no laws can be made to guarantee morality, it seems we can’t save ourselves from ourselves.

Absolutely beautiful,I loved this.Chris Hedges I have so much respect for you.Thanks for all you do💪🇵🇸❤️

Thank you Chris.

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Amazing and true information on AI control

Chris, You need to appear more interested in what Yanis is saying! Your continual looking away,looking down at your notes, etc is extremely distracting. It seems you are planning your next question rather than listening to what he is saying. It would be better if you did not appear on camera!

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This was a brilliant discussion and just what I needed to hear. After listening to you talk about unions Chris and the need for workers to collectively push back, I was wondering what this would even look like given the level of automation occurring that surely must increasingly diminish actual worker numbers and push-back potential. I am old enough to remember when we thought automation would liberate people and create more time for quality of life. Of course, it didn't happen that way. As a 'progressive' Australian, Yanis is someone I've followed for some years. It was fantastic to see him on your show and listen to your always thought provoking and information rich discussion. Thank you, Bryony

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Excellent interview!!!! Thank you both!❤

I love chris hedges he's right up there with Noam chomsky and Julian assange in intelligence and intelect

un+wef digital tyranny is 👎👎👎!!!Nostradamus predicted the payday/payback 500 yrs ago...!!

Love you Chris

Our communities for ever more cheaper stuff.... Fair exchange is no robbery I guess, so we ALL own this.

What is the power(watt.h) bill for global cloud capital?

Hi Chris please look at mistaclim. Thanks. We appreciate your voice and expertise.

They used the trade deficit interpretation of global resource distribution to shift the view to a militaristic perspective I.e. more stuff -> more force -> greater fear of the militaristic nation to further funnel resources from foreign nation by leveraging the power dynamic

Keep spreading the word…all of us… continue to share these video’s with others. I do not argue I only share and encourage them to listen and consider. THANK YOU CHRIS for who you are and your conviction, helps me have courage to share and risk the outcomes. 💕

We have to get these foreign agents out of the west. They put the whole world at risk.

Tragic to see how much US is ready to sacrifice for one very violent state.

Hey nice to see you have Yanis on.

lease to own? nope: lease to pay the ruling class a never ending return on investment.

Brilliant work Yanis! Your father was a great teacher in your life! I’m hoping that the AI they are creating will deem the feudal lords irrelevant!

Very interesting conversation. That said, I can’t see using Facebook, X/Twitter, or Instagram to organize the resistance. These entities would quash it.

Why did Sacco make himself look so ugly in his graphic books? He's not a bad looking guy. This is the first time I ever saw him, and I was shocked.

2:45 Anger and hate in many instances are two very different feelings.

Varoufakis is obviously wrong. Equality and 'living paycheck to paycheck' is very specifically socialism (hint: China is very specifically many things except purely socialist). What killed capitalism was Joseph Stalin's majik machine (corporatism), curtesy of a certain wizard (Oz, the great and Hoover). BTW Stalin openly stated this at the ECC many years later. The predicted crisis was based on falling birth rates and consumption (perpetual motion) forming a fatal parallax. Why speculate over established facts? These things are well documented. Ironically, the Soviet solution was to simply "pick a known failed system and stick with it." It was 'reflection' and self-honesty that healed the 'federation.' Correct policy followed later.

It's hilarious to think that these gentlemen just contributed to the increase of the capital of the owner of TH-cam by talking against the big tech corporations.

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America is not primarily the oligarchy that everyone on the left has fallen into the habit of calling it. It is primarily a corporatocracy but for some reason, no one seems comfortable with this word. You can have oligarchy - rule by a small number of wealthy individuals - independent of corporate interests. Meanwhile, a corporatocracy will always be associated with wealthy and influential individuals who act for corporate interests and may temporarily head them up. But It is their corporations that have captured the US political class. Wealthy individuals who have influence and prominence will be around under any system.

An hour very well spent. Thank you for enlightening people to take action.

So we have to stop paying cloud rent by staying off the internet?