Capitalism Quotes by Henry Giroux

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful.

— Henry Giroux

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

— Henry Giroux

This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt…

— Henry Giroux

“It's easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism.”

— Henry Giroux

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

— Henry Giroux

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can…

— Henry Giroux

The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that can provide alternative…

— Henry Giroux

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of…

— Henry Giroux

Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits…

— Henry Giroux

[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for…

— Henry Giroux

FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the…

— Henry Giroux

Under neoliberalism, you have a political-financial class that doesn't care about whether people are suffering. They float above politics. They have power…

— Henry Giroux

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just…

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism is going to fail by being replaced. The system is entirely broken. Whenever you have a system that equates a market…

— Henry Giroux

Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold…

— Henry Giroux

In authoritarian societies, control over the production, distribution, and circulation is generally in the hands of the government, or what might be…

— Henry Giroux

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning…

— Henry Giroux

Violence, with its ever-present economy of uncertainty, fear, and terror, is no longer merely a side effect of police brutality, war, or…

— Henry Giroux

Where neoliberalism thrives is in having done something that we haven't seen before. There is a merging of culture, politics, and power…

— Henry Giroux

The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed…

— Henry Giroux

Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in…

— Henry Giroux

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address the…

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism eats its own children. Disposability is central to how neoliberalism functions. I would not like to romanticize that, though, by suggesting…

— Henry Giroux

I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something…

— Henry Giroux