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Bristol Ideas is a leading organisation for public debate and learning, bringing together arts and sciences to explore the key issues of our time.
We collaborate widely in the city, nationally and internationally. We are dedicated to building new futures for people, places and the planet. We are committed to commissioning new work; forging lasting partnerships; and supporting artists and organisations to contribute to major cultural programmes. Our projects include the creation and renewal of cultural organisations; citywide and national arts and heritage projects; and festivals - Festival of Ideas, Festival of Economics and Festival of the Future City.
We collaborate widely in the city, nationally and internationally. We are dedicated to building new futures for people, places and the planet. We are committed to commissioning new work; forging lasting partnerships; and supporting artists and organisations to contribute to major cultural programmes. Our projects include the creation and renewal of cultural organisations; citywide and national arts and heritage projects; and festivals - Festival of Ideas, Festival of Economics and Festival of the Future City.
How Movements Succeed and Fail: Andy Beckett
In the great revolutionary year of 1968, Tony Benn - MP for Bristol - was a respectable Labour minister in his forties, and he was restless. While new social movements were shaking up Britain and much of the world, Westminster politics seemed stuck. It was time, he decided, for a different approach. Over the next half century, the radicalised Benn helped forge a new Left in Britain. He was joined by four other politicians, who would become comrades, collaborators and rivals: Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn.
For Andy Beckett, the story of these admired and loathed political explorers - both their sudden breakthroughs and long stretches in the wilderness - is ...
For Andy Beckett, the story of these admired and loathed political explorers - both their sudden breakthroughs and long stretches in the wilderness - is ...
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In Conversation with Bristol City Poets: The City Poet Handover
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As Bristol’s second City Poet, Vanessa Kisuule has written and performed poems for a wide range of organisations and occasions including: the 100th anniversary of the Addison oak tree in Sea Mills; two State of the City addresses; St Paul’s Carnival; Every Child Needs Christmas; and the University of Bristol. She has run workshops in libraries, worked with children in care and distributed handw...
Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading: Claudia Rankine
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In association with Festival of Ideas and the Centre for Black Humanities Award-winning poet, writer and thinker Claudia Rankine delivers the 2020 Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading. Recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship and author of five poetry collections, Professor Rankine will read from her new publication, Just Us: An American Conversation (published in the UK by Allen Lane) and...
Festival of Ideas Exploring Bristol's Past to Understand the City Today
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In October 2020 - after the bringing down of the Colston Statue - the mayor of Bristol announced a new History Commission to help Bristol better understand its history and how Bristol has become the city it is today. It is not just about the slave trade or Colston. Among the issues it will consider are: the growth of education; the struggles of workers for pay and working conditions; the Charti...
Festival of Ideas Caleb Femi and Vanessa Kisuule
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What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because 'you fit the description of a man' - and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching the ground? In his new book of poetry and photography, Caleb Femi explores the trials, tribul...
Niall Kishtainy: What Can we Learn from Utopian London?
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Be realistic: demand the impossible. A utopian dream for many centuries. Thinking about utopian cities and trying to deliver utopian ideas about cities has been a key part of Festival of the Future City. Niall Kishtainy, author of The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London, discusses the history of utopia and London with Bristol Ideas’ director, Andrew Kelly. Ranging widely over...
How Can We Use Longtermism to Build a Better, More Inclusive Future? (Bristol Ideas)
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Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Dan Taylor discuss the concept of longtermism, a school of thinking that focuses on positively influencing the future through considering obligations to the future world and generations. They discuss groups often neglected from discussions of the future, particularly indigenous people or people from global majority countries. They look at how many of the apocalyptic sc...
Kat Lyons: To Bristol in Autumn (Bristol City Poet 2023)
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Bristol City Poet Kat Lyons marks State of the City 2023, part of Festival of the Future City. Find out more about Kat and the role of Bristol City Poet here: www.bristolideas.co.uk/projects/bristol-city-poet/ Image credit: Charley Williams Photography
Angus Deaton: How do we Solve the Problem of Inequality in America? (Bristol Ideas)
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Sir Angus Deaton’s new book, Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality, brings together memoir with a lifetime of learning about economics, the United States and inequality. In a wide-raging discussion to mark the publication of Economics in America and the start of Festival of Economics, Deaton discusses with Bristol Ideas’ Andrew Kelly deaths of despair and ...
Katja Hoyer: Good Bye, Lenin! (Bristol Ideas: Festival of the Future City)
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Katja Hoyer on Good Bye, Lenin! and the idea of nostalgia - Ostalgie - for East Germany. One of the films we wanted to show in Out of the Rubble: Berlin on Film is the 2003 film Good Bye, Lenin!, in which an East German family try to prevent their mother - who has been in a coma for eight months - learning about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the communist cause she has devoted her ...
Colm Toibin: How Can We Tell Our Own Stories? (Bristol Ideas)
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The essays of novelist Colm Tóibín are centre stage in his new collection, A Guest at the Feast, exploring the intersection between life and fiction. In this conversation with Bristol Ideas, he touches on the complexities of law and the Catholic Church in Ireland, his mother’s relationship with literature and his experience living in Venice during the Covid-19 pandemic. The personal and politic...
Roe vs Wade Overruled: One Year On
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Writer and journalist Sian Norris is joined by an expert panel to discuss the impact of the US Supreme Court's decision to overrule Rove vs Wade on abortion rights in the US and around the world. One year ago, the US Supreme Court overruled Roe vs Wade, the 1973 judgement which had allowed for safe and legal abortion across the nation. Within days, multiple states had implemented abortion bans,...
Solmaz Sharif: Can We Ever Really Belong Anywhere? (Bristol Ideas)
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Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the hinterland of the arrivals terminal, have to operate a system of security checks and face the interrogation of our nation-state - all while negotiating the nuances and complexities of a foreign language. ‘Customs’ is a term loaded with multiple meanings: it may refer to a collective mode of behaviour, a tradition laid down by law, or the gove...
Alex Niven: Is a Better Future Possible for the North of England? (Bristol Ideas)
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Despite economic deprivation following 20th-century deindustrialisation, the North of England has always held an unflinching optimism and expansive outlook. Writer Alex Niven joins us to outline the importance of the North of England in the modern era and tell the stories of its decisive moments over the last few decades. In recent years we have seen an increasing centralisation of culture away...
Sian Norris: Q&A with the author of Bodies Under Siege
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While we might think the anti-abortion movement is rooted in religious or moral debate, the groups behind it are much more sinister. Sian Norris investigates how today’s anti-abortion movements are being funded and planned by far-right extremists. The rise of far-right extremism has been an issue of great concern in the US for many years, but it’s since been bleeding gradually across the Atlant...
Sarah Tarlow: Can the Stories of Our Past Help Us Understand Death? (Bristol Ideas)
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Sarah Tarlow: Can the Stories of Our Past Help Us Understand Death? (Bristol Ideas)
Natasha Carthew: Q&A with the author of Undercurrent
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Natasha Carthew: Q&A with the author of Undercurrent
Katja Hoyer: What Was East Germany Really Like? (Bristol Ideas)
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Katja Hoyer: What Was East Germany Really Like? (Bristol Ideas)
Adam Gopnik: How Do We Learn New Skills? (Bristol Ideas)
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Adam Gopnik: How Do We Learn New Skills? (Bristol Ideas)
Tania Branigan: What is the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution? (Bristol Ideas)
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Tania Branigan: What is the Legacy of the Cultural Revolution? (Bristol Ideas)
Oskar Jenson: Is It Better to Be an Optimist or a Pessimist? (Bristol Ideas)
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Oskar Jenson: Is It Better to Be an Optimist or a Pessimist? (Bristol Ideas)
Sherine Tadros: How Do You Remain Neutral as a War Reporter? (Bristol Ideas)
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Sherine Tadros: How Do You Remain Neutral as a War Reporter? (Bristol Ideas)
Adrienne Buller: How Can We Own Our Future and Build a Better World? (Bristol Ideas)
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Adrienne Buller: How Can We Own Our Future and Build a Better World? (Bristol Ideas)
Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How Has Viktor Orbán Been Able to Subvert Democracy in Hungary? (Bristol Ideas)
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Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How Has Viktor Orbán Been Able to Subvert Democracy in Hungary? (Bristol Ideas)
Sarah Bakewell: Q&A with the author of Humanly Possible, At the Existentialist's Cafe & How to Live
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Sarah Bakewell: Q&A with the author of Humanly Possible, At the Existentialist's Cafe & How to Live
Linda Kinstler: Why Are History and Memory Under Threat? (Bristol Ideas)
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Linda Kinstler: Why Are History and Memory Under Threat? (Bristol Ideas)
Yomi Sode: How Can We Form a Modern Response to TS Eliot’s The Waste Land? (Bristol Ideas)
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Yomi Sode: How Can We Form a Modern Response to TS Eliot’s The Waste Land? (Bristol Ideas)
Salman Rushdie’s Victory City: What Does It Teach Us About Building Great Cities? (Bristol Ideas)
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Salman Rushdie’s Victory City: What Does It Teach Us About Building Great Cities? (Bristol Ideas)
Ayobami Adebayo: Q&A with the author of A Spell of Good Things
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Ayobami Adebayo: Q&A with the author of A Spell of Good Things
How Did We All Let Grenfell Happen? Peter Apps and Paul Smith (Bristol Ideas)
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How Did We All Let Grenfell Happen? Peter Apps and Paul Smith (Bristol Ideas)
Great interview and information. THank you!
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So glad that you shared this video. What a great tribute to one of my favorite authors, and the author of my favorite book! Glad to know her work is getting more love and attention
Neo-liberalism simple definition is the transfer of the public domain power to the private sector “YOU’LL OWN NOTHING AND YOU’LL BE HAPPY”. BUT SOON TO BE REPLACED BY A TECHNO-FEUDALISM SO YOU ARE F-UP ANYWAY AND IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOUR SKILL COLOR IS ( JUST A DISTRACTION TO KEEP YOU DIVIDED YOU SEE THEY ARE JUST A HAND FULL YOU ARE ZILLIONS AND IF YOU UNIITED YOU ARE A GREAT FORCE TO CONTEND WITH SO THEY NEED YOU DIVIDED) .JUST THINK ABOUT IT. THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST.
it is a well researched book. the style veers around a bit between first-person retelling (which is, I suppose, as valid as any other, if the source is the horses mouth) and a lot of distilling academic-style stuff which is a bit dense for me. I'm glad it is showing, not telling, or, rather, not proselytizing cherry-picking leading-on. I just watched A Perfect Crime. for those saying on here about the "youngers" mouthing off about things they know nothing about. The whole thing is not so much about the crime, as little is acutally known, but interviews about the times. i did spit my tea out quite a lot at that.
Great video, very informative, thank you. Unfortunatley, undestandding what you were talking about requires thinking while the idea "this is all because of immigrants" does not. I am not saying people are stupid, because they are not. They are incredibly intellectually lazy.
Thank you so much for this. I, too, found Donne through Howl, and, honestly, my whole English degree was just building on the novels of Diana Wynne Jones: Keats hit different after Fire and Hemlock: I understood Aeschylus because of Homeward Bounders (my personal vote for best novel not often mentioned). More profoundly, my writing voice was shaped endlessly rereading these books. Every time I reread any of them as an adult, I see phrasings and cadences that I think of as mine, and I feel like a fraud.
Prisons have security and cheap rent too. Yeesh.
East Germany was in some regards much more progressive than its Western counterpart. For instance, in West Germany - up to the 1970s - a woman needed permission from her husband to open a bank account or take up a job,and the husband could at any time terminate her employment contract if he thought she was 'neglecting her household duties'. Meanwhile in East Germany every child was entitled to free child care from age 1 to age 6, and every woman was free to set up her own bank account or take up a job, in fact she was entitled to it. Also, abortions in West Germany were illegal. They were legal in the East. Homosexuality was illegal in West Germany until the reunification. It was decriminalized in the GDR in 1968.
@@dschoene57 Yeah - prisons offer free food, healthcare and security too. I wonder what the catch is.
more taxes & regulations today how uk neoliberlism
Did the guy heard of. 2007 global financial crisis!? Free market 😂
@33:34 yes s indeed , media , fox and Murdoch are doing a great job for promoting democracy
This scholar is big fun of Regan , he is very biased toward this former President!
"Neoliberalism ..=basically Screw the small people🙃=💀. And keep the screw-On💀like right -wing Stink-tank💩 ..Full on stink💩=💀=tory🙃-crap💩! Fact💀.. d🤕🇪🇺
Climate legislation is worthless give white people benefits directly from the state. Send checks and don’t stop. Stop means testing away benefits for whites
For any kids watching I should point out that Roy Jenkins who championed 'social change' eg divorce and homosexuality laws during the 1960s, was not 'of the left' at all. Jenkins was quite the toff who liked his high living and was as far right as one could get in the Labour Party and remain in it. And yes Tony Benn did 'ask awkward questions about power'; one of those questions was about the prospect of joining the Common Market, in the 1960's and the referendum, promised by Wilson in the 1970's. It was 'the left' who asked questions about loss of sovereignty, enforced disconnection from the Commonwealth countries and democratic accountability of the distant Eurocrats and 'radical champion' Roy Jenkins, and Big Business Conservatives, who were waving the EEC flag. Andy also has a bit nerve stating that Corbyn avoided BBC's Today because he felt it was 'not sympathetic'. Andy is right in this assertion and yet he isn't able to remove the beam from hs own eye. Some of the 'brutal press treatment' Corbyn got from the press came from his own newspaper, The Guardian; the hit pieces on him were glaring. The last thing I would have thought about Corbyn was that he was an anti-semite. Also this conversation contains much yak from Andy and Andrew about this thing called 'the left' but I don't think the words 'democratic socialism' were mentioned once aside from a quote from Oscar Wilde. I must conclude that being left no longer means being wed to anything of the post-war consensus eg full employment, tax and spend, nationalisation or democratic socialism but instead means the cultish adherance to gender identity politics or climate alarmism. I do concur with other points Andy made about 'the left' and its perpetually clenched fist and the belief that anyone who isn't on 'the left' must, of course be right-wing. In my experience - I'm shocked to find that I'm older than Andy - that most people who are 'small c conservative' also like a little bit of 'small s socialism'. As it is, I wish Corbyn had won his General Election, it might have been a disaster, or it might not. I can't say I thought much of his shadow cabinet except for John McDonnell. A victory would have at least saved us the spectacle of the shambolic rule of the Conservative party. I now look forward to how 'the left' still remaining in the Labour Party goes about its business with a Labour government barely discernable from the Conservatives. I have just learned that Sir Keir has welcomed Natalie Elphick into the Labour Party. Let us take a moment and think about that. I look forward to reading Andy's book.
Please try to include context of many Eastern European countries being under colonialism from Austrian - Hungarian , Prussia and Russian powers. It is important. What is saying is excluding that context
Just started her book so came here first. I lived in China for three years spanning the year 2000 and have a huge interest in this topic…
One of the best conversations I've watched! Thank you for sharing this. Just incredible analysis by Andy!
Beckett works for The Guardian a purveyor of anti working class policies like global warming, mass immigration, EU membership which I utterly reject. As for antisemitism in the Labour Party. I absolutely don't believe it is in any way significant. Remembering that Corbyn's pal Lansman who helped him con his way onto the leadership ballot (by claiming Corbyn didn't want to be leader) is a very strong Zionist. Corbyn' leadership campaign was very dodgy. George Galloway claims not to have a liberal cell in his body. Corporate liberalism (BBC, Guardian) is the real enemy not the Tories.
Diana Souhami❤
Interesting discussion.
Walked & bussed through Albania in 1993 with a friend. At least 80% of people in the south were stick-thin suffering malnutrition. I went mainly to see how the Greek population were doing & the Albanians. The place was hell in burning acid. A dentist was telling us how he had been learning English through the programmes on BBC. One in four Albanians were spies for the Communist State. The police came to him asking why he was learning English. He said 'I want to be able to speak to all the world.' They said 'You are a bad man' & locked him into what sounded like a mining concentration/work camp for twenty years. He told us terrible stories of people murdered in his camp for disagreeing with communism. Fortunately the regime fell so he came out early. People were so desperate they were swimming to Corfu. They did not even have rowing boats or fishing tackle so they were using dynamite for fish. We were invited to five funerals of men on the coast who had died from the inadequate dynamite in one week. The Government had built 600,000 concrete bunkers against invasion telling their people 'The West wants our good water & bread.' The place was a nightmare. We met hundreds of people telling us horror stories. The people had been so enraged when the regime fell they tore down their excellent public buildings. What Lea says here is nonsense. My parents began the Taunton Communist Branch before the War. What finished me emotionally with Communism--I was finished intellectually a long time ago--was Albania in 93. Compared to Albania the West has good freedoms. We go through a crisis now but that is because the Extreme Right have managed to fool people & take over traditional Conservative Parties. Kick them out & find leaders to tackle the grave problems facing us.
Her book led me here. It's exceptional and very unique. Thank you for posting this talk.
did he really somehow jump over who took over latin america's economy after all the coups in the 70s and instead drew attention to reagan ... instant classic say financial times ... what a joke ..
Hi, I’m making a documentary for my third year dissertation on the north-south divide, could I use part of this clip, particularly 5.36-6.02
what did really bring the wall down was the desire of the east germanz for western consumer goods. they saw it on west german telly ads every day and this was the driving force behind it - not the desire for freedom. i still remember, one east german summarised it in a talk show after the fall of the wall: "i want l,marlboro, marble jeans, a ghetto blaster and a golf GTI.". that was the driving force which brought the berlin wall down. the primitve desire for western consumer goods. these days it is, of course, shown in a different light. - this woman here is far too young in order to be able to report properly about the ddr. anybody who is younger than 50 has no clue and should not lecture about the topic, particularly not abroad. imagine an english native at the age of 25 trying to teach germanz about the thatcher times. that is as absurd as what this woman here is doing with her gdr-lecturing.
This “young woman” (40 next year) was born in the GDR to a GDR family and is a professional historian and member of the Royal Historical Society. History would be a very poor field of scholarship indeed if we forbade it to people who did not personally experience the subjects they research. I presume that you yourself just have grown up to adulthood in der DDR to pontificate to the effect that you know more about GDR history than Dr Hoyer does. Or apparently you saw something on a talk show once, and that’s how you know?
it's just the tired old recycling of laissez faire economics, which everyone knows does NOT WORK. So they slapped a new, misleading (it's not liberal) label on it and resold it to the public. This is how the right always operates. with deception.
It's always necessary to parse a speaker's political bias when listening to a talk like this. Gerstle may at first appear to be an impartial analyst, but that's clealry not the case.
ruclips.net/video/WZFx2TuEVw4/видео.html “With someone else’s ass we’re all whores” -Professor Javier Milei Argentine President Mieli said: “The state is a criminal organization that finances itself through taxes levied on people by force. We are returning the money that the political caste stole.” “You can’t give s**t leftards an inch. All collectivists, all kinds of collectivists. [...] They are s**t!,’” he thundered. “If you think differently from them they will kill you. This is the point. You can’t give s**t leftists an inch, if you give them an inch they will use it to destroy you. “You can’t negotiate with leftards. You don’t negotiate with trash because they will end you! If you are on the other side, they will ruin you. They will kill you, they will throw you everything, they don’t care if they ruin your whole life. Why? Only because you don’t think like them.” The sh***y, silly, parasitic and useless political caste, he denounced “useless, parasitic politicians who have never worked”. “I’m here to kick these criminals out”, he said. “Leftist sons of b*tches, be afraid!” “Do you know the years of the Great Depression?” asked Milei wryly. “It was between 1929 and 1933,” and he continued, “And do you know in what year the General Theory was published? In 1936.” “It would be good for you to study it if you want to ask questions about Keynesianism”; “You’re saying something stupid”; “It seems to me that you even have comprehension problems”; “Your problem is arrogance because you don’t know a damn thing and you give your opinion about what you don’t know,” I’m not a totalitarian, I’m just saying you’re a don^key. You start giving your opinion on things you don’t know the fu^ck about,” he said, sparing her all diplomacy. The state does not create wealth, the state destroys it. The state can give you nothing, because it produces nothing. - Javier Milei
ruclips.net/video/WZFx2TuEVw4/видео.html What does Argentina`s President Prof. Milei have on his mind? Well, he thinks that politicians are “rats” that form a “parasitic caste” that only think about getting rich. The state should only dedicate itself to security and justice. “He combines a kind of ultraliberal orthodoxy, from [Milton] Friedman and [Friedrich] Von Hayek… he sees himself as a warrior against the state. “People realize that we’re getting poorer and that the only ones making progress are the politicians, the parasites.”
Mariana Mazzucato argues that the United States' economic success is a result of public and state-funded investments in innovation and technology, rather than a result of the small state, free market doctrine that often receives credit for the country's strong economy. She wants to change the perception of the government from a bureaucratic machine that stands in the way of innovation, to government being the lead risk taker in terms of investing in innovations.” Clearly she is a Democratic Socialist then. Seemed to be rather well hidden that fact. What about Gates, Job, Musk, Larry Page, Bezos? Demonstrably the polar opposite is true. Typical socialist rubbish that gets an audience because governments want justification to spend more of your money competing with the private sector, the socialist road to ruin.
Soft capitalism becomes plain, rotten to the core socialism sooner or later. The principles of free enterprise capitalism are immutable.
It was exactly the same as 1980's Liverpool. 🗜️
But with the Stasi
This is amazing. I’ve been reading her books with my wife and we are having such a great time together. It’s so nice to hear a little bit about the author behind the books and the woman behind this fantastic imagination. The stories and perspectives you shared were brilliant.
Loved her book
Thanks for this insight from someone who was there at the transition, and had the patience ot talk to the participants. My comments are below. Disclosure: I was in both Berlins as a tourist in the 60s, 70s, 90s, and 00s. I also lived in East Berlin for two years in the 1980s, before the unexpected change in management. I was not there for the fall of the Wall. I request thoughts on the absence of personal revenge by those who were reported on by the Stasi, against those who did the reporting. First the comments: BRISTOL GUILT: Take it easy on this. Can a city be guilty of what was done on the real estate hundreds of years ago? Have the Scandinavians and Italians paid anything as compensation for the outrages of the Vikings and Romans on the English? Any recent appologies or public rending of garments by ambassadors? ANPASSUNGSFAEHIGKEIT: This is the ability to adjust to a situation, and the DDR population did this in a range of degrees. Proverbs such as "You can't fight city hall," Don't try to p*ss against the wind," and "Bend with the wind" all seem to reflect the prevailing attitude. I know that an East German associate was a member of the Socialist Unity Party and the German-Soviet Friendship Whatever. She marched on Unter den Linden carrying whatever photos or slogans were required. I am confident that, if the Vegetarians came to power, she would not have had any problems marching with a poster of a turnip. Do as needed to perhaps get a better apartment, chances for your kids in school, or the goodies that dribble down to party members. Play the cards you are dealt, play the golf ball as it lies, don't try to swim against the tide, "Mitmachen!" RENDER UNTO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE CAESAR'S: In German it is more specific, "Dem Kaiser geben was dem Kaiser gehoert." POPULATION DECLINE: In modern times there have only been two absolute population declines in peacetime. Ireland during the potato famine and East Germany before the Wall was built. MUTI GEHT ANS WERK: (Mommie goes to work) That is a song sung by DDR children. A woman's place is on the shop floor. SLIGHTLY MORE THAN EQUAL FOR REASONS OF PHYSIOLOGY AND TRADITION: Women received an extra day off each month due their monthly biological needs. However, the days off could be accumulated, with the result that females got 12 more days off each year than their male colleagues. DER STAAT ALS KINDERGAERTNERIN: This was Stefan Heym's characterization of the GDR, of which he was a citizen and resident. Respected but a pain in the rear at times for the government. The kindergarten teacher could discipline with a stern look, a rap on the knuckles, or time in Bautzen, a prison in the remote southeast of the country. She had an oblligation to care for all her chidren becuse she knew best. Likewise the government knew best and enforced the SED views on the population, which remained a mass of children. THE YEAR OF BOTH MARX AND LUTHER: Yes, these two Germans were celebrated in the same year, but not together. - - - - - - -NOW MY QUESTION:- - - - - Why no revenge against the ex-Sasi by those that they reported on? People had their personal and professional lives messed up by Stasi spies, but I have never read about the spied upon taking revenge, as in 9 mm pistol revenge, against the person who reported on them. Possible explanations: -The Germans are peace-loving and all forgiving in non-military affairs. They have short memories and do not carry grudges. This is another case of you looking at the world through your John Wayne-Rambo-cowboy eyes. I don't think that this is a satisfactory explanation. -The joy of unification cleansed the country of all anger. -There is an attitude of "everyone was doing it," reporting on everyone else. There must be something to this. This was indeed reflected in the film "Gundermann," when Gundermann confesses to a colleague that he was the subject of a report by Gunderman to the Stasi. The colleague laughs and says that he had also reported on Gunderman. Another Bibical thought, "Let him who is without sin (or this sin) cast the first stone." -There is residual resentment at the de-Nazifiction process conduced by the WWII Allies, and especially the Americans, after WWII. I attended a National Party of Germany rally, which was just on the border of being make illegal, when the question came up. The speaker asked the wildly hypothetical and fantasy-like question, "Would there be de-Socialist Unification Parytification in the unlikely event of German unification?" The audience sentiment was clearly that this insult would not be appropriate or necessary. I sincerely (really) would like some enlightening views on this.- thanks, Dutch_Uncle
Gary is great with history, but his political biases are giving him a blind spot to the democrats being extremely authoritarian today. Think of big tech, the FBI, and the propaganda of the press.
Excellent visionary outlook...I concern myself with many of the same insights...as do others, so its nice to get confirmation of the need to outline infrastructures.
I wonder if he still thinks the same. To see the scene as so-called progressivism vs authoritarian is in itself so NEOLIBERALIZED that I doubt if he understood neoliberal globalism and that there is establishment vs at least 2 alternatives of which one is a real socialist one!
The neoliberals are social darwinists with an Austrian school gloss, all afraid of workers ...
Neoliberalism refuses to recognize public goods or the attendant problem of collective action, so the private market solves all problems and what the market does not solve cannot be solved or the problem is imaginary. No such thing as society said Margaret Thatcher. These principles don't extend to foreign policy where these people have a touching faith in aliances and promises
19:55 the neoliberals don’t want fully free markets and ”destruction” of the regularory state. They want a free market for the large corporations to function ”freely” and a state that bails them put whenever they fail. The neoliberal ideology deeply depends on a strong state that helps out the big corporations and thus the wealthy individuals to stay in power. That is the whole point of neoliberalism and how it differs from conventional classical liberalism.
Perhaps "Sisyphiusian patience"
He talks about Trump as the 'Strongman' and implies policies of racism and dictatorship. Meanwhile, Biden wields the security state to try to jail Trump and his middle American supporters. Colleges now have separate Black graduation ceremonies and East Asian students are discriminated against by University faculties. Those all look like the hallmarks of racism and dictatorial power. And yet Trump is the threat? However smart the pundit is they can't get past their visceral fear of Donald Trump and the disadvantaged Americans he represents.
From a scholar born in Britain I would expect at least some reference to the inherited role Americans retained from life under British law that secured and protected landed privilege. From Turgot, Adam Smith captured the essence of how an immediate redistribution of wealth from producers to rentier interests was institutionalized. This systemic level of entrenched privilege has never been addressed. I have recently read the first two volumes of a trilogy written by Fred Harrison, director of the Land Research Trust in London, titled "#WeAreRent," in which he documents the history of the how this wealth confiscation occurred.
Stop immigration, start repatriation, problem solved.
How does the earned income tax credit fit into the liberal versus neo-liberal orders? Its goal seems to be to give everyone a fair income for their work, but it is supported by many neo-liberal advocates.
it's a corporate subsidy so they can avoid paying a higher wage. see the debate over the 1986 tax reform act
Could Clinton have stuck with the neo-liberal model because he actually believed in it? At least believed it to an extent?
biden is a dictator run by wall st bankers. this man cant see it or wont. biden betrayed workers in the rail strike and every other time he was called to stand for them. biden is a neolib neo con war monger and war criminal now. seeing trump as some enemy of democracy when bidens uniparty stole the 2020 election and is busy attacking him with the legal system for 2024 is amazing. this man is why america is so screwed. a typical older lib who cant see the forrest for the trees and loves his fascist warmongers over anything populist. but then what does one expect for the oxford trained? certainly no questioner of the establishment. sad.
A revealing interview. Not mentioned (it never is) is the fact that after 1945 three countries were divided, Germany, Korea and Vietnam. The USA had a role in all three cases.
USSR had a role too…
Austria was also divided. Remember "The Third Man."
@@capitalist4life lol ussr wanted a united but demilitarized germany. usa allowed electings in korea and vietnam and as soon it was clear who wins blocked it and supported dictators.
So did the USSR.
@TheRichardSpearman So did the Soviet Union.