@@MoDinn90but that’s almost true in every sense. Not just in our extreme polarized society globally, but throughout history. Of course he was talking about inside supposed left culture where he was “ a Rockstar” very rarely is someone popular with all people.
He's a hack. Has a worthless degree in political science. Thinks he is an intellectual. Intellectual's never have any answers but they are quick to find problems and point fingers. That's because they have nothing else to do. His parents were Russian sympathizers and he was a maoist. Everything is the fault of the west. Never mentions all this could have been avoided if at any time the Palestinians would have actually negotiated for peace. Never mentions they don't want peace. They refuse to compromise. Always falls in the lap of the west and Israel. I guess we are the only ones that have any responsibility for actions. Read Thomas sowell's Intellectuals and Society . Eye opening. These clowns love the benefits of western society but hate western society.
@@effa2985 He's the best that the Left has. So much of what "left wing" consists of now is empty mindless rhetoric spread via social media. Finkelstein has always cut through to the substance.
Norman Finkelstein had decency and seriousness deeply fire-branded into his conscience by the generational trauma of his Holocaust-orphaned parents, presumably strong people and definitely outspoken individuals who may have barely survived the Auschwitz and Majdanek Nazi concentration camps. Now I find his economic politics strange, guys like him and Chomsky believe in benevolent state-controlled (haha oxymoron alert!) wealth redistribution and socialized ownership of property. But I feel in Norman's case such views stem from a sense of goodness that to him is important above all. I have been once to the Dachau camp memorial. I believe he sees our current path as humanity's certain way to violence and subjugation and privation, dehumanization and destruction. How else could one look to Communism and Marxism as desperate, radical re-imaginings of society ( and these systems paradoxically put a lot of faith in SOME people's human nature.) Particularly since he decided to forego the security of wealth, popularity and fame in the way people usually try to exploit these for their enjoyment. He was quite willing to gamble away his academic career even for the quite unworthy Alan Dershowitz, who as a fool learned of course nothing & defamed him so cravenly in return.
"...I was reasonably intelligent, and as a young man I was quite good looking...", how modest of M.Finkelstein! You are brilliant, and you are still very good looking!
I whole heartedly agree with Norman. As an older leftist, I've been able to see woke politics displacing class consciousness since the beginning. It's really disheartening.
A lot of "woke politics" comes from mainstream liberals and not as much from DSA/Bernie Sanders/socialists, though the latter are still attuned to some PC things.
Great interview! Prof. Finkelstein has long been away from media, for obvious reasons, and we really miss to hear his ideas that we value a lot. Thanks a lot for this brilliant interview!
@@phasespace4700 No, he's a genuine socialist who's pointing out that superficial "performative wokeness" is a tool of the establishment to divide people via race/gender/sexual orientation instead of uniting them via class. It's not a coincidence that corporations have enthusiastically embraced such policies. We now spend more time defining ourselves by our differences than by our shared conditions.
@@phasespace4700 It's only the beginning. The Right seems to be gaining momentum in both the Americas and Europe. All thanks to the Left overplaying their hand they have birthed the very thing they oppose. There is hope yet.
Why i love watching Prof Norman Finkelstein? because all the sentences that come out of his tongue are based on considerations of logic/knowledge, facts and truth. Currently, the world needs figures like him more, also like his mentors; Prof. Chomsky, and also his colleague Prof. J Mearsheimer. Currently with limited resources and the strong push of materialistic culture the world has abandoned ethics and the wisdom of reason and success is judged only from material/financial matters. Even despite humanity and equality. the world needs teachers who provide advise based on facts, logical wisdom and facts. May God always give protection and blessings to him and people like him and his family. Insyaallah🤲❤️🤲
Norman has the most amazing mind, and I love his absolutely rock solid integrity, and that he wastes no energy on mincing words. We could use a lot more blunt truth like this. "I think the capacity for self delusion is infinite." ...perhaps the greatest problem of the human ego.
The sign of a truly intelligent person - the willingness to consider that they are wrong. He evaluated woke politics and came to the (right) conclusion. It's nuts.
Norman, use sunscreen on your daily excursions to Brighten Beach and Coney Island. I love you Brother, keep the faith... You are one of the rare public intellectuals who made good sense these days,
I so much adore Mr.Finkelstein and his outright honesty. Especially many people out of trying to be polite do not spit out negative words. But at least in politics it's very essential to be outright and be honest about opinions and thoughts. I have learned so much from Mr.Finkelstein. I wish him good health and wishing him to keep speaking the truth to power..
I fell in love with him after I saw his famous "crocodile tears" rebuttal to those brainwashed woke zionists. Been loving basically all of his interviews and speeches since. Am in the process of getting some of his books. Also, the fact that he's a hardcore leftist (in the true, class-conscious sense, not that westernized/liberal nonsense/CIA cultural psyop sense) was not only iceing one the cake, but the base of the cake itself, for me at least.
Just bought the last copy of The H.o.l.o.c.a.u.s.t. Industry in all Texas’ Half Price Books stores. Their website said it was unavailable but I decided to call the one closest to me and they said they didn’t have any but a different store in Austin *might* have a copy. Called them and they had one copy with no book jacket. I asked them to hold it and drove over there and bought it, and the woman said it was the last one in Texas (Half Price Books stores). It’s not available on Amazon, haven’t checked Barnes & Noble. His website links to Versa (publisher) & it’s not available on there either. I took a picture of it next to Half Price Books’ list of “banned” books, ALL of which they sell & have plenty of copies of. 🤡
U re not alone .I have to admit that the liberal has occupied/conquered the left . Still I’m happy so see honest figure like Norma Finkelstein warn us about this fake leftism .
I really appreciate how he has been doing so many interesting interviews. I find his insights very thought-provoking in this somewhat confusing and changing time period.
All facts. I found his opinions on the Palestine/Israel issue. Very impressed and people tried to diminish him by saying he's anti-woke. Well I watched this and I walked away agreeing with him 100% again. Especially when he talked about Bernie and how idiots used woke politics to derail the most left campaign in many generations.
I bow to the very ground before your wisdom, thought, humour and heart, Sir, and I dearly and desperately hope that my ancestors weren’t among those that tortured, murdered and cremated yours. If there ever were a chance for the better in this world, it would be because those who suffered forgive. Thank you for walking so tall.
I love this conversation. Finkelstein is absolutely right in my opinion, and articulates very clearly what has bothered me for so long but I didn't have the words to express. Thank you for the very informative video.
Mr Finkelstein I admire your integrity and wisdom. What is this young guy asking? Look at Mr Finkelstein face it tells you all. He is a happy man, he is living his life and he is satisfied. You can see it!
May GOD Richly Bless You Prof. Norman Finkelstein! For Standing Up And Speaking The Truth! That's So Wonderful But Rare In Today's World.🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅‼️
DONALD JOHANN DRUMPF 666 AMERICA IS MYSTERY BABYLON “WRITTEN” ON HER “FOREHEAD” ~ MAGA BABYLON THE GREAT + AMERICA THE GREAT “Conform no longer with the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind.” The Holy Bible
God said in the Quran : ﴿أَم خُلِقوا مِن غَيرِ شَيءٍ أَم هُمُ الخالِقونَ﴾ [الطور: ٣٥] (35) Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]? ﴿أَم خَلَقُوا السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ بَل لا يوقِنونَ﴾ [الطور: ٣٦] (36) Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain. - English Translation
I don't know how you feel when listening to this great gentleman. For me I have tears coming out, I love this speech, I love this kind of man. God bless you Mr Norman Finkelstein ❤
He is right of course. Woke and Identity Politics were a kind of capitalist inoculation against the left critique of capitalism, specifically the problems associated with allowing an exceptionally privileged and exceptionally influential minority ownership class. It was financed by wealthy entities, and promoted to both splinter the left into many separate special interests, as well as to promote social division, principally along the lines of morality and ethics, - a kind of flagrant brandishing of sexual deviance and disregard for traditional values, seemingly designed chiefly to horrify those who regard those values dear. Of course, to some extent, the embracing hedonism and rejecting traditional and religious sexual taboos has been a natural or organic part of the left position, but in principal this was a questioning of excessive societal repression via illegitimate authority. The left also tended to champion the rights of any minority they felt might be being especially oppressed or subjugated. But Nietzsche, for example, said something like a cause's greatest enemy is it's over-zealous advocate, and it is obviously possible to push something to the point where it induces a kind of backlash effect, (an easy example perhaps being the phenomena of a rapid increase of foreign immigrants inducing "right wing backlash") which can be used to effectively divide the population into opposing camps. The CIA has been credited with promoting a "synthetic left" of this sort, essentially to help control and direct public opinion. And at any rate, I think there should be little doubt that those with money, at least in capitalist societies are those who most significantly shape and influence our societal opinions, our trends and our "cultural" and political developments. But of course our whole "collective understanding" of the nature of our world is enormously influenced and shaped by our mass media (and main stream articles, opinion pieces, novels and movies etc.) and if the mass media asserts that "Woke" is the new religion of the LEFT, or that Joe Biden's capitalist corporation serving Democrats epitomise the LEFT, well, then I guess we either need to communicate with one another using terms in a way quite incompatible with the way that corporate controlled media or "popular culture" (in terms of best selling books and most watched Netflix and Hollywood productions) uses those terms, or else perhaps we can communicate in terms whose meaning only we can alter, or else, presumably, we must embrace the narrative and the interpretation of the world that is fed to us through our electronic mass media. And unfortunately, to the extent that we must surrender to having to communicate with one another under the constraint that the majority will tend to posess a rather "synthetic" and superficial understanding of the world, well, we will have our Norman Finkelstein's seemingly speaking strange and curious truths, or absurdities if you prefer, out there in the proverbial wilderness. Cheers, love and God bless
You've summarised EVERYTHING so clearly. There's this idea that "Tankies" are ruining the left, when "Tankies" are in fact the ones woke to the liberal infiltration of leftist movements.
How do you explain communist style repression over the pandemic and the clear influence of Chinese repression upon the western world. And the clear ownership of large swaths of western economy by China. It's clear to me that communism owns the west. What's the lefts response to that?
Is there any system that is less conducive to a small ownership class than capitalism? The worst-case scenario, which almost always plays out due to inherent human greed and desire for power, for most systems is worse than the worst-case scenario for capitalism, in my understanding. I also think it's one thing to have crony capitalism which bails out the rich ("Too big to fail"), and another thing to have capitalism with little governmental intervention (depending on area) with a certain social safety net, because in my understanding there's no better way to allow for individual freedoms and upward class mobility than such a system.
My god if I didn’t love this man already from just recently discovering him from the current Israel Palestine conflict 🥹 what a gem! What a gift from god. I love you sir!
I see his perspective and it makes sense if the term woke was defined his way but that’s not how it was traditionally used but he was spot on when it comes identity politics.
That part. The problem is that people, including himself, conflates the meaning and speaks on the co-opted version of the term and considering the place of "staying woke" in Black culture, hell, a culture of being marginalized and oppressed, it's sad to see someone as impressive as him still be lost in the sauce is unfortunate. "Wokeness" isn't a thing. It was never a thing to be defined like that. To be on the Left is "stay woke" due to the fact of placement of the oppressed versus the oppressors and to not stay woke in light of what's happening would allow you to effectively become and unwitting tool for the oppressors. Period. Keeping your mind open and your eyes fixed on the myriad ways in which they try to subvert the actions of those rebelling against them is the very staying woke to thing that these people try to sway in a way to weaken and change to adhere to their politics. The ways in which words can be transformed due to the willful ignorance of the masses is madness.
Yeah, it's a really odd opinion to think that woke people aren't concerned about class. The wokest lefties never shut up about class. Sure, if you arbitrarily decide to disinclude theoretical works about class from your study of "woke" theories, than it sure seems that wokeness doesn't include class.
"When I started to get too popular I began to worry that I was doing something wrong " How profound !
its a loaded statement although he might've been getting popular with one group he was becoming unpopular with another.
@@MoDinn90 Good point
Anyone who is made popular is fake.
@@MoDinn90but that’s almost true in every sense. Not just in our extreme polarized society globally, but throughout history. Of course he was talking about inside supposed left culture where he was “ a Rockstar” very rarely is someone popular with all people.
Profound statement ! Still reflecting on it..
A true decent human he risked and put his personal gains to stand up for truth,we owe a lot to people like Norman
agree with there are many jews are against zoinism .people like him and [ miko pelad ]he is a son of israeli general who lived there
"It's a good feeling to be respected so as long as you feel like you earned the respect."
- Norman Finkelstein
"The human capacity for self-delusion is infinite." Norman Finklestein is a legend. God bless this man.
Wasn't that beautiful!!
💯
He's a hack. Has a worthless degree in political science. Thinks he is an intellectual. Intellectual's never have any answers but they are quick to find problems and point fingers. That's because they have nothing else to do. His parents were Russian sympathizers and he was a maoist. Everything is the fault of the west. Never mentions all this could have been avoided if at any time the Palestinians would have actually negotiated for peace. Never mentions they don't want peace. They refuse to compromise. Always falls in the lap of the west and Israel. I guess we are the only ones that have any responsibility for actions. Read Thomas sowell's Intellectuals and Society . Eye opening. These clowns love the benefits of western society but hate western society.
Normand and you are examples of it….. Delusional
@@philipangelo595ah, no it wasn’t
Norman Finkelstein has what most do not, a refined moral center.
Extraordinarily refined mind
@@effa2985 He's the best that the Left has. So much of what "left wing" consists of now is empty mindless rhetoric spread via social media. Finkelstein has always cut through to the substance.
Norman Finkelstein had decency and seriousness deeply fire-branded into his conscience by the generational trauma of his Holocaust-orphaned parents, presumably strong people and definitely outspoken individuals who may have barely survived the Auschwitz and Majdanek Nazi concentration camps.
Now I find his economic politics strange, guys like him and Chomsky believe in benevolent state-controlled (haha oxymoron alert!) wealth redistribution and socialized ownership of property. But I feel in Norman's case such views stem from a sense of goodness that to him is important above all.
I have been once to the Dachau camp memorial. I believe he sees our current path as humanity's certain way to violence and subjugation and privation, dehumanization and destruction. How else could one look to Communism and Marxism as desperate, radical re-imaginings of society ( and these systems paradoxically put a lot of faith in SOME people's human nature.)
Particularly since he decided to forego the security of wealth, popularity and fame in the way people usually try to exploit these for their enjoyment. He was quite willing to gamble away his academic career even for the quite unworthy Alan Dershowitz, who as a fool learned of course nothing & defamed him so cravenly in return.
Norman is a coward.
Perfect
This Gentleman oozes intellect, integrity, kindness and compassion. Great video thankyou.
This man needs so much more exposure
Couldn't agree more. His scholarship and research are too valuable to lose in obscurity. He risked and lost a great deal for standing up for truth.
Exactly why HE DOESN'T GET IT.
One of his brothers is a capitalist ($£€¥ 💰), and married a Chinese woman, has a so handsome son
@jbird6561
@jbird6561watch documentary movie 《American Radical -- 》near 2 hours, produced in 2009, about his tenure event ending time.
"...I was reasonably intelligent, and as a young man I was quite good looking...", how modest of M.Finkelstein! You are brilliant, and you are still very good looking!
I whole heartedly agree with Norman. As an older leftist, I've been able to see woke politics displacing class consciousness since the beginning. It's really disheartening.
You leftist sold your souls to the rich liberal elite and this is only happening because 😂 you lefties
Agree
Democrats aren’t on the left anymore, they have just as many business interests as republicans so they need to keep the structure as it is
A lot of "woke politics" comes from mainstream liberals and not as much from DSA/Bernie Sanders/socialists, though the latter are still attuned to some PC things.
The left has been toxic since it’s inception. It’s nature is evil.
Finkelstein is beacon of light in a dark corner of this world
His intellect is beyond me. A great man. Thank you Professor Finkelstein for your service to humanity. Humbly so.
Agreed. And then to hear him speak of Chomsky as "a truly titanic mind" who was "way beyond me" is truly humbling. Finkelstein rocks.
Finkelstein is a legend! A good man.
The more I know about Mr. Finkelstein, the more I admire his views and his courage!
Great interview! Prof. Finkelstein has long been away from media, for obvious reasons, and we really miss to hear his ideas that we value a lot. Thanks a lot for this brilliant interview!
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain
Taylor swift fans should ponder this quote lol
Let each of us buy professor Finklestein's book called Image and Reality for $22 to support him for his human endeavor. Ordered my copy today !
You can sense the commitment to honesty in every word.
I love Dr. Finkelstein's mind
One of the last heroes of our time
Who are the others-Kid Rock and Ted Cruz? Because that's what Finkelstein is starting to sound like.
@@phasespace4700 No, he's a genuine socialist who's pointing out that superficial "performative wokeness" is a tool of the establishment to divide people via race/gender/sexual orientation instead of uniting them via class. It's not a coincidence that corporations have enthusiastically embraced such policies. We now spend more time defining ourselves by our differences than by our shared conditions.
@@phasespace4700 It's only the beginning. The Right seems to be gaining momentum in both the Americas and Europe. All thanks to the Left overplaying their hand they have birthed the very thing they oppose. There is hope yet.
@@phasespace4700do you Haye jews
@phasespace4700 Why because he is not a identity politics neoliberal like you. Class politics number one followed by race
Why i love watching Prof Norman Finkelstein?
because all the sentences that come out of his tongue are based on considerations of logic/knowledge, facts and truth. Currently, the world needs figures like him more, also like his mentors; Prof. Chomsky, and also his colleague Prof. J Mearsheimer. Currently with limited resources and the strong push of materialistic culture the world has abandoned ethics and the wisdom of reason and success is judged only from material/financial matters. Even despite humanity and equality. the world needs teachers who provide advise based on facts, logical wisdom and facts.
May God always give protection and blessings to him and people like him and his family. Insyaallah🤲❤️🤲
I love Finkelstein honesty all across the board.
It’s always a pleasure to hear Norman talk about ANY subject.
I heard someone today say something like the real man or true man walks alone. So if he is alone, he's a kind of hero.
👌
Wonderful! No-one talks like this man anymore. He's an inspiration.
Norman is a human treasure! Unfiltered, raw truth 🙌
This man humbleness is sorbering
A kind man who is sincere to his conscience.
Norman has the most amazing mind, and I love his absolutely rock solid integrity, and that he wastes no energy on mincing words. We could use a lot more blunt truth like this. "I think the capacity for self delusion is infinite." ...perhaps the greatest problem of the human ego.
absolutley rock solid integrity.. no question. rock solid
The sign of a truly intelligent person - the willingness to consider that they are wrong. He evaluated woke politics and came to the (right) conclusion. It's nuts.
Another wonderful conversation with Norm Finkelstein, he makes so much sense. Thank you!!
Finkelstein is one of the few scholars with integrity.
I have so much respect for this man. He speaks the truth no matter who its for or against
Norman, use sunscreen on your daily excursions to Brighten Beach and Coney Island. I love you Brother, keep the faith... You are one of the rare public intellectuals who made good sense these days,
Kudos for the interview! I interviewed Norman decades ago and he is still resolute!
Prof. Norman Finkelstein is such an outstanding man of integrity, humility, and intellect.
Finkelstein's life and work correspond to what Kierkegaard describes as finding "the idea (the truth) for which (one is) willing to live and die".
Norman Finkelstein is my hero.
Who's your villain?
In these days it is hard to find an honest and principled individual. Norman Finkelstein is such an individual.
I love Finkelstein, especially these days it’s so important to have intelligent, thoughtful humanists lead dialogue & questioning in our society…
And he has morals
Thankd for hosting Norman Finkelstein.
He is a kind honest humble human being
I so much adore Mr.Finkelstein and his outright honesty. Especially many people out of trying to be polite do not spit out negative words. But at least in politics it's very essential to be outright and be honest about opinions and thoughts. I have learned so much from Mr.Finkelstein. I wish him good health and wishing him to keep speaking the truth to power..
I fell in love with him after I saw his famous "crocodile tears" rebuttal to those brainwashed woke zionists. Been loving basically all of his interviews and speeches since. Am in the process of getting some of his books. Also, the fact that he's a hardcore leftist (in the true, class-conscious sense, not that westernized/liberal nonsense/CIA cultural psyop sense) was not only iceing one the cake, but the base of the cake itself, for me at least.
Just bought the last copy of The H.o.l.o.c.a.u.s.t. Industry in all Texas’ Half Price Books stores. Their website said it was unavailable but I decided to call the one closest to me and they said they didn’t have any but a different store in Austin *might* have a copy. Called them and they had one copy with no book jacket. I asked them to hold it and drove over there and bought it, and the woman said it was the last one in Texas (Half Price Books stores).
It’s not available on Amazon, haven’t checked Barnes & Noble. His website links to Versa (publisher) & it’s not available on there either. I took a picture of it next to Half Price Books’ list of “banned” books, ALL of which they sell & have plenty of copies of. 🤡
U re not alone .I have to admit that the liberal has occupied/conquered the left .
Still I’m happy so see honest figure like Norma Finkelstein warn us about this fake leftism .
Same. That video is how I discovered him and learned about the plight of the Palestinians. I’ve been fascinated ever since
Leftism is a satanic psychop. Liberalism is the cure.
I really appreciate how he has been doing so many interesting interviews. I find his insights very thought-provoking in this somewhat confusing and changing time period.
All facts. I found his opinions on the Palestine/Israel issue. Very impressed and people tried to diminish him by saying he's anti-woke. Well I watched this and I walked away agreeing with him 100% again.
Especially when he talked about Bernie and how idiots used woke politics to derail the most left campaign in many generations.
I bow to the very ground before your wisdom, thought, humour and heart, Sir, and I dearly and desperately hope that my ancestors weren’t among those that tortured, murdered and cremated yours. If there ever were a chance for the better in this world, it would be because those who suffered forgive. Thank you for walking so tall.
HAS he ever said he is not a semite?
@@Veritas2233 ?
Excellent. What we SHOULD ALL aspire to be. 🕊
Guy is an absolute legend.
Norman has my utmost respect as a human being.
A great man, one in a million
I love this conversation. Finkelstein is absolutely right in my opinion, and articulates very clearly what has bothered me for so long but I didn't have the words to express. Thank you for the very informative video.
Norman Finkelstein . Interesting , intelligence , integrity .
Mr Norman is a absolute legend alive, God bless him and prayers for him, God show him the truth light 🕯️ in this life Amen.
Mr Finkelstein I admire your integrity and wisdom. What is this young guy asking? Look at Mr Finkelstein face it tells you all. He is a happy man, he is living his life and he is satisfied. You can see it!
Tremendous courage. Ferocious and brilliant.
A man of great dignity and humanity...
May GOD Richly Bless You Prof. Norman Finkelstein! For Standing Up And Speaking The Truth! That's So Wonderful But Rare In Today's World.🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅‼️
DONALD JOHANN DRUMPF 666
AMERICA IS MYSTERY BABYLON
“WRITTEN” ON HER “FOREHEAD” ~ MAGA
BABYLON THE GREAT + AMERICA THE GREAT
“Conform no longer with the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind.”
The Holy Bible
A very enlightened man with golden heart.May Allah bless him ❤
So nice to see Dr. Finkelstein again.
Norman Finkelstein brings clarity 👍
I think these videos need to be shared. I completely agree with his thoughts.
Absolutely love and respect Norman Finkelstein, thank you thank you thank you
Amazing interview, and very well balanced by the interviewer. Got the best out of Norm. I only wish it was thrice the length!
I’m not pro Palestinian I’m not pro Israel I’m pro truth - Dr Norman Finkelstein. May God continue to guide you
He's a remarkable person.
Absaloutly love this man.
NF is legendary hero for Palestine, ...
Great man, courageous intellectual
A good person and an intellectual treasure who puts moral first. May Allah swt preserve Mr. N. F.
Great Man
Hope he lives a long healthy life. Would love to meet him someday.
He has
I don't see him as been isolated. Right now he is the most popular scholar to speak with. Very educated and intelligent. Straight forward speaker.
Honorable gentleman 💞
RESPECT!
ThIs man is incredible!!!
We need these people….
Thank you! Big respect to Norm. I bought his latest book, currently reading. Don’t agree with everything but very important food for thought.
Everyone should be senstive to injustice.
I have been thinking about wokeism in the context of being left and he explained this so well.
Thank you Finkelstein!
❤ Dr. Finkelstein!
THIS MAN IS A GEM. UNIVERSITIES SHOULD BE NAMED WITH HIS NAME FIRST IN GLOBAL SOUTH THEN I HOPE IN WESTERN WORLD.
You are My hero
I love that he says the truth ,god bless him.
there is no god.
God said in the Quran :
﴿أَم خُلِقوا مِن غَيرِ شَيءٍ أَم هُمُ الخالِقونَ﴾ [الطور: ٣٥]
(35) Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?
﴿أَم خَلَقُوا السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ بَل لا يوقِنونَ﴾ [الطور: ٣٦]
(36) Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain.
- English Translation
I don't know how you feel when listening to this great gentleman. For me I have tears coming out, I love this speech, I love this kind of man. God bless you Mr Norman Finkelstein ❤
Me tooo❤
respect for prof !
I have huge respect for Dr Norman.
He is a gem.
He is right of course. Woke and Identity Politics were a kind of capitalist inoculation against the left critique of capitalism, specifically the problems associated with allowing an exceptionally privileged and exceptionally influential minority ownership class.
It was financed by wealthy entities, and promoted to both splinter the left into many separate special interests, as well as to promote social division, principally along the lines of morality and ethics, - a kind of flagrant brandishing of sexual deviance and disregard for traditional values, seemingly designed chiefly to horrify those who regard those values dear.
Of course, to some extent, the embracing hedonism and rejecting traditional and religious sexual taboos has been a natural or organic part of the left position, but in principal this was a questioning of excessive societal repression via illegitimate authority. The left also tended to champion the rights of any minority they felt might be being especially oppressed or subjugated.
But Nietzsche, for example, said something like a cause's greatest enemy is it's over-zealous advocate, and it is obviously possible to push something to the point where it induces a kind of backlash effect, (an easy example perhaps being the phenomena of a rapid increase of foreign immigrants inducing "right wing backlash") which can be used to effectively divide the population into opposing camps.
The CIA has been credited with promoting a "synthetic left" of this sort, essentially to help control and direct public opinion. And at any rate, I think there should be little doubt that those with money, at least in capitalist societies are those who most significantly shape and influence our societal opinions, our trends and our "cultural" and political developments.
But of course our whole "collective understanding" of the nature of our world is enormously influenced and shaped by our mass media (and main stream articles, opinion pieces, novels and movies etc.) and if the mass media asserts that "Woke" is the new religion of the LEFT, or that Joe Biden's capitalist corporation serving Democrats epitomise the LEFT, well, then I guess we either need to communicate with one another using terms in a way quite incompatible with the way that corporate controlled media or "popular culture" (in terms of best selling books and most watched Netflix and Hollywood productions) uses those terms, or else perhaps we can communicate in terms whose meaning only we can alter, or else, presumably, we must embrace the narrative and the interpretation of the world that is fed to us through our electronic mass media.
And unfortunately, to the extent that we must surrender to having to communicate with one another under the constraint that the majority will tend to posess a rather "synthetic" and superficial understanding of the world, well, we will have our Norman Finkelstein's seemingly speaking strange and curious truths, or absurdities if you prefer, out there in the proverbial wilderness.
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You've summarised EVERYTHING so clearly. There's this idea that "Tankies" are ruining the left, when "Tankies" are in fact the ones woke to the liberal infiltration of leftist movements.
How do you explain communist style repression over the pandemic and the clear influence of Chinese repression upon the western world. And the clear ownership of large swaths of western economy by China. It's clear to me that communism owns the west. What's the lefts response to that?
Is there any system that is less conducive to a small ownership class than capitalism? The worst-case scenario, which almost always plays out due to inherent human greed and desire for power, for most systems is worse than the worst-case scenario for capitalism, in my understanding. I also think it's one thing to have crony capitalism which bails out the rich ("Too big to fail"), and another thing to have capitalism with little governmental intervention (depending on area) with a certain social safety net, because in my understanding there's no better way to allow for individual freedoms and upward class mobility than such a system.
In times of exponentially growing hypocrisy this interview is like a candle light in the dark.
You are a wonderful human being ❤❤❤ we love you from Morocco
LOVE Norman… such a great mind, and beautiful man. Could listen to him speak all day ❤
My god if I didn’t love this man already from just recently discovering him from the current Israel Palestine conflict 🥹 what a gem! What a gift from god. I love you sir!
I see his perspective and it makes sense if the term woke was defined his way but that’s not how it was traditionally used but he was spot on when it comes identity politics.
That part. The problem is that people, including himself, conflates the meaning and speaks on the co-opted version of the term and considering the place of "staying woke" in Black culture, hell, a culture of being marginalized and oppressed, it's sad to see someone as impressive as him still be lost in the sauce is unfortunate. "Wokeness" isn't a thing. It was never a thing to be defined like that. To be on the Left is "stay woke" due to the fact of placement of the oppressed versus the oppressors and to not stay woke in light of what's happening would allow you to effectively become and unwitting tool for the oppressors. Period. Keeping your mind open and your eyes fixed on the myriad ways in which they try to subvert the actions of those rebelling against them is the very staying woke to thing that these people try to sway in a way to weaken and change to adhere to their politics. The ways in which words can be transformed due to the willful ignorance of the masses is madness.
Yeah, it's a really odd opinion to think that woke people aren't concerned about class. The wokest lefties never shut up about class. Sure, if you arbitrarily decide to disinclude theoretical works about class from your study of "woke" theories, than it sure seems that wokeness doesn't include class.
Was not enough interview. Please, I'm fascinanted with his personality, life, honestly and open talk
you "woke" me up. thanks norman...
But now I still don’t know what wokism is about, what is the essence of it.
@@MD-lf3gtThere is no essence. "Woke" has no definition other than "aware of systemic racism and oppression."
naah you're still asleep
Amazing Professor with Amazing Work !
This interview could have been a lot longer. I don't care what he thinks, I want to know why he thinks it.
InshaaAllah heaven for u Sir i pray everyday for you.
I love him. Such a respectable man.
Thank you sir
still a rockstar!