The future demands a new political consciousness. We can’t just wait for neoliberal economics to tear apart society and then build from scratch. In this interview, cultural critic Henry Giroux both condemns the scourge of neoliberalism and its poisonous cynicism and attack on the critical imagination and argues for a radical democracy that has to be truly participatory and willing to give power to all people so that they can intervene in and shape values, policies, the practices that shape their lives. For Giroux, resistance is impossible without education and a critical formative culture that addresses both the creation of new historical and political agents as well as the possibility of a new society. He also argues that resistance if it’s to be successful, it needs to go beyond the fragmentation, sectarianism, and political purity that has plagued the left. In pointing to a politics of hope, he argues that now is the time to develop systemic reforms, develop alternative public spheres, and a social movement that embraces a comprehensive view of politics and change~~Chuck Mertz
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