The Holberg Debate 2018: "Politics and Affects: The Dynamics of Social Mobilization"

Don't miss the 2023 Holberg Debate on December 2. Anil Seth, Tanya Luhrmann and Rupert Sheldrake will debate the question: "Does Consciousness Extend Beyod Brains?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSUaZOW9h8 Feel free to follow the event page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/315569814476878 More information on the Holberg Prize webpage: holbergprize.org/en/2023-holberg-debate-does-consc…

We live in a Corporotocracy. He’s absolutely right there is no economic democracy.

Thank you brother George Galloway, all the best blessings to you and yours.

"Two cheeks of the same ARRRSCH." - best description of Democrat and Republican parties.

I'm a little embarrassed for Kathleen as she reveals during the discussion that she doesn't understand domestic politics, and resorts to cliched cartoon characterizations of both Obama and Trump. That's what happens when you go from grassroots revolutionist to Yale-educated establishment person, who likely reads only propaganda rags for her news, such as The New York Times and The Atlantic.

I lived in oakland in 1967. The black panthers never were what you say. We used to have parties 10 years later 4 blocks away on 7th St and bought beer at their grocery store. They just wanted their own red line the police wouldn't cross. They wanted to own the local safety net and enforcement for local 25 houses. Sitting on the porch with a shotgun scared people, Well dressed and strong looked like militants. Good people 1977-82, Scumbags hid like cockroaches. because the people wouldn't put up with shitheads. That's how you fix dangerous places

I do like George, and I think he's largely correct about geopolitical realities: the US and their allies - or vassals, as some no doubt are - dominate the rest of the world, through the use of the financial system they set up, and through the threat and/or use of force, and this has been the case since WW2. I'd like to point out that that "Syrian refugee" story was taken by the corporate press and social media platforms and *amplified*. That should ring alarm bells for the discerning observer. To take the story on face value and wring your hands about "racism" being such a problem is exactly the behaviour the corporate press wilfully promote - just as the George Floyd story was injected even into UK news, to tell the people all about the systemic racism that pervades our societies. It is a distraction, the whole "culture war" is a distraction, so that the little guys like us get animated about school yard spats and drug-addled criminals instead of focusing our attention on the genuinely corrupt system we're all obliged to live within. I've heard the headteacher, and other teachers at that school, calling out the Syrian refugee boy as a troublesome bully; that he'd previously stabbed a pupil with a compass, been found carrying a knife and a screwdriver, and had no respect for staff, especially female staff. Many didn't want to make a statement, for fear of being called - you guessed it - a racist. Whether these accounts of a (lone) Syrian refugee boy are more accurate than the stories that were circulated by mainstream media - and I think they are - is the minor point. The major point is that people are still far too credulous of what appears in mainstream media, being led by the nose to the talking points of the day by the megaphones of the establishment. Meanwhile, the wars go on, and the rich establishment maintain their wealth and power.

Kathleen Cleaver's talk was extraordinary. What a fascinating bit of history she witnessed and participated in. Thank you for posting this.

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Tks. much.

Some good points here but after 3 years of knowledge gained.. I disagree with some of it, and recognize it now as rhetoric ...

The moderator, Ms. Dennis, is so bloody rude --- she is turned away from Kathleen while she is speaking, and clearly not paying attention. Bush league behavior.

Audio started,( for me and my machine anyway.) at 15:04 .

It's hierarchy and it's pathologies.

youtube has forced me to acknowledge the sheer volume of people who spend their lives in academia, producing nothing of tangible value, sitting legs crossed on stages, regurgitating ideas as if they were original, with an audience of well-meaning admirers all truly believing they are sharing in formulating the next political policies that will save the world. They then go vote for more "welfare", debt and warfare, and less individual freedom. And create more NGOs for the same. For all the corporatists' greed it pales in comparison to the grift in social mobilization.

BLACK PANTHER PARTY GOOD!!!

So George Galloway thinks that Anarchists are, "without theory to guide them", (1:40:06), despite the theory AND practice, of being, (from the Greek), "An", meaning without, and "Archos", meaning rulers or rulership. He also failed to understand that wiping his own arse, every time he has a crap, he and lots of other people are part of the movement by which they and all Anarchists accept personal responsibility, and are thereby able to learn how to do it efficiently, as with everything else they do. Being without rulers and rulership, is nothing to do with being without rules though. That's demonstrated every time people co-operate against rulers share respect for each other. That's something which lackys for Authoritarians might benefit from.

Galloway is amazing... the audience looks morally vacant.

The subtitles are rather misleading, using 'effect' instead of 'affect', depite the title of the event.

May God bless the magnificent George Galloway 🙏🏼🕯🕯🙏🏼 An inspiration Worthy of Tony Benn, Robin Cook Blessed are peacemakers