The Real News will regret letting Chris Hedges go. He's the cream of the crop, the most honest and thorough journalist around. Shame on The Real News.

Chris Hedges' show is the only thing I watch on this channel.

❤Chris Hedges! One of the absolute best people on earth. Thank you sir.

Orwell said the same thing about western international media's coverage of the Spanish Civil War. The big liberal papers painted it as a struggle between nice milquetoast liberal Democracy and fascism, when it was at least every bit as much a popular revolution against fascism and capitalism simultaneously. (Not to mention a civil war within the civil war, within the left itself, between the bourgeois Republic and its authoritarian stalinist backers, and the militant popular anarchist and trotskyite militias who advocated for immediate collectivization of land and industry) Never trust a British or American paper to paint an adequate picture of another country's revolution

Hedges really is a mastermind. He’s giving us viewers a guide to a solution. Those of you who feel isolated because of your conditions. You are not! We have a road map thanks to activists like Chomsky, kulinski, Zinn, and Yates-sexton and Hedges! This is gold here folks! Remember, the revolution is a perpetual struggle! It doesn’t stop! Don’t stop! ✊🏼

Chris Hedges is such a truth teller. I could listen to him all day. He is like fine wine and he speaks facts.

🎉🎉🎉 chris hedges …a great joirnslist of our time .Thank you for your work on truth ,justice and fairness .There is hope in journslism and fair media with giants like chris .

Great Interview. I cant wait to read Mr. Bevins book.

I slept in Zuccotti park and spent a night in the custody of NYPD. I remember seeing Mr Hedges there. (He's one of my heroes) long live the revolution!

Again, an educational and interesting conversation on this show.❤

'The outbreak of Democracy which occurred in the 1960's must never be repeated.'

As a 15M protester in Spain, I think Spain was among the first to launch protests worldwide.

How did banks and corporations maintain control you ask? They were never punished in the first place.

I am actually reading this book now

It's very simple. No movement will live long if it doesn't have a strict organization, a mission statement an objective demands and heavy organization. Good bad or neutral, no movement can exist as an amorphous blob. Nothing gets done that way. And if we think this way we will always lose because the other side will always be more organized than we. So those people really had a lot to learn. Hopefully now they've learned it and we can move on. Power to the people, friends.

Giving someone the idea of defeat is a victory in a sense for the one suggesting things that may not be true.

Thank you Chris. I buy the most books from your podcasts. Just got this one. Your authors are so interesting I can't resist buying their books.

It's nice to hear well articulated scholarly perspective on these points, I recall at the time of many of these events giving similar take presentations at parties, so it's nice years later to hear well qualified background into these matters Bless all people, a society ensuring the well being of it's individuals and their rights will thrive well beyond one person attempting to harness everyone, Well being for all~ Both of you very excellent and appreciated speakers to these matters 🙏🙇

Thank you. Great interview.

So fabulous a talk! I will get book for sure! And need to listen all the way through again, at least once! Chris, your interviews have brought so very many wonderful political writers, thinkers, speakers and activists to us. What would we do without those fine introductions linking us to your own reading and studied scholarship. Bless you forever. Wishing I could help financially. You deserve such funding as the best elders of your field do too! Free Julian. Take on the fools in power. Peace. -T.

Thanks for what I found to be a very informative and important interview.

Organize! Organize! Organize!

There’s many books about anarchist history of the USSR and the Russian revolutions, from George Woodcock to Emma Goldman to Alexander Berkman

The leaderless idea for a movement cannot work in real life. The ideal solution would not be to have one leader (we know how that turns out), but a "team" or small group of five to seven people who would work by consensus.

Great interview, as always.

Excellent interview!

Divest, boycott and defund. Its the only power we the people have left.

I really enjoyed learning from Vincent.

Behaviours emerge in groups of animals on one side of the world and after is replicated somewhere else without social media!!! Imagine what could be done !

Very informative

Oh wow this such an informative video! #truth #freedom

Chris is the most❤🌟🌟🌟🌟👑🔥

brilliant ! thank you

Very interesting 🤔👍 power to the people! 🇪🇬🇯🇴✌️🇺🇸

Myself as individual? Myself as part of ❤❤❤ Devided we fall 😢😢😢

This book looks like a very interesting read. Thanks

Very great conclusionary points, depth of resounding

I will listen to his audiobooks. I found them on UKposts.

Very thoughtful/nuanced take-the silent drum in the background here is Zizek◼️ - please bring him on & discuss his book Christian Atheism 🙏

Damn. You rocked my worldview with this one, Chris. Thank you. Every leftist should watch this.

Been hoping this sitdown happened....

You can't defend against violence en masse without hierarchical structures. The trick is to create a heirarchy that is decision based only but where ppl can be replaced as seen fit by the people who they are leading.

Can we get the real news network to cover the story on the 215 unmarked graves in mississippi? This is a major story. A lot of people and families are greatly affected by the revelation and atrocities of the law enforcement in mississippi...

Interesting- thank you

Testing, testing. Was not able to comment elsewhere on the cancellation. And this is a two weeks ago program b/c RealNews pulled down the Dennis Kucinich interview. Will Bill Fletcher Jr be next?

As Chomsky said at the time Occupy was wonderful but they had no way of taking protest to effective policy change. Why do you think the Unions in the UK formed the Labour Party?

Movements not a failure. It continues.

I love the video and content but I am always fast forwarding through the intro and your abstract that you provide.

I just learnd that Hedges' show has been terminated. This does not speak well of The Real News.

To answer your initial 3 questions 1 not enough fire 2 not enough fire 3 more fire

Does exist a similar study about de great mass protests more recent?? Like Friday for Future or the propalestine movements, what could be an estrategy localy or globaly ???

Shame on the Real News for getting rid of Chris Hedges, he's a world treasure

Loved this interview. The point about not having a plan after protest. The elite have been so smart distracting and dividing. Peace comrades! Let's never give up. Because..."We don't fight fascists to win, we fight bc they're fascists" CH. And..."sucking at something in the beginning leads to success at something" Jake the dog from Adventure Time.

Ive not read his book. But have there been a post-mortem analysis of the recent chilean popular movement that arguably deflated?

The "tragedy" of Syriza? It was a counter revolution!

Informative and my mind is blown… by what I’ve heard is difficult to put a note worthy dent in the existing structure… but I’m hopeful that we could…do it! All you have to be is humane and think of others as just that. Communication is key… also Jeffrey Sachs book on Kennedy proves just that..

Mass street actions could go to n many directions, as the 2 experts say.This sort of action is thus a tactic- larger movement, if it exists, gives content to various tactics’ forms. Even armed struggle/ political military violence can go both ways at same time.

No Analysis of Extinction Rebellion?

Regarding natural hierarchy, with an appreciation for non hyper hierarchical structure... It's just not humanly feasible to listen to all members of a larger group. If you want to actually care and listen to each person, you don't have enough hours in your life. There is a natural structure for this sense to some chieftaining or other group tasking even in a rotatable sense, where someone will hear their groups thoughts, and the thoughts of the others summarizing their respective groups, the group summary presenters have their limits of hours in their life's, and concerns that arrive to their constituents within review intervals. Perhaps a better individual enabling structure can aim to minimize the impacts and burden on these processes, and sabotaged structure can look like being too bogged down for us to have a voice anymore. It's too hard to be heard, which is the hierarchy most of us feel participant

Hey, Ned, how do you get political movements with no goals and no purpose?

It'd probably never happen because it'd require Congress to vote to reduce their own individual power, but expanding the house of representatives and adding a way to do optional and mandatory referendums (like the Swiss) might help with people lacking any influence on govt policy. Really hard to imagine any congressman choosing to dilute their share of power tho. Vive la revolucion, baby!

Refuse. Resist.

It came to me, watching that damn BLM [show] that that type of outward emotional 'protesting' was going nowhere and old.

Can’t believe y’all fired Chris Hedges!!?? WTF???

Is this about Climate Change? What if he combined the two topics?

During the occupy movement, there was a strong sense that anything that smacked of hierarchy was totally antithetical to the original purpose for the movement. The detrimental effects of the lack of any sort of leadership were soon realized when nobody could articulate the group’s goals, and anyone who tried was soon rebuked by the rest for any number of reasons, including their voluntary assumption to the position of leadership, as well as having listed goals in an improper priority or that should never have made the cut in the first place. Making some form of hierarchy a taboo creates a dangerous vacuum that’s highlighted by the quote from someone named in Vincent’s book which ended with the line that said the elites are very well organized. It’s an important point for future anti-authoritarian movements to understand and remember. The authority of rules for a peaceful protest begins with the rule that it must be peaceful; but even that is a rule put in place by authority. Who will enforce it, and what if there are those who choose not to obey? The place where the answer to these questions is leading should be obvious. It’s to the integration of a rules based organization with an anarchist ideology. It just doesn’t work any other way.

The green movement a year before in Iran (2009)

Basically this guy is explaining what Trotskyist have been saying for 100 years now.

I hated hated the emphasis people put on twitter enabling the Arb Spring.

yeah kinda heavy

What happened? How come mass protest do not work? If there is any indication that protest don't work, one only has to observe what happened in a particular Eastern block in the 2014s to know protest do not work. What can work is to develop logic, intellect and rationality. Whereby most important of all are the development of effective love, effective peace, effective freedom and effective harmony to take place within and without every human being. It is to see and observe, to become aware that every human being is of equal value and that in order for us to survive as an Earth human race, since there are other human beings outside of our planet, it is required of us to seek and strive for these high values of the essences of wisdom. No protest can achieve such high ideals since a protest only wastes energy of those who protest as well as those who are protested against since both sides do not come together and seek the essences of wisdom such that we can see each with equal value. How can we have dialogue, how can we understand the views and wants of opposite side if all we do is march, push signs, shout and scream, whereby if we then understand that this gets us nowhere, then has the potential to become violent, whereby everything that is worked for goes out the window. Thus protest does not work, for one can argue that the development of real intellect and rationality and logic as wrll as love, peace, freedom and harmony can because these essences of wisdom is something that we all share and can achive in a non-violent manner.

The problem was never no uavib representation. The problem was not beibg able to fill the viod quick enough . You need to build Workplace Rank n File Committees, Local Workers Councils and a Revolutionary Party. These three work in tandem to viod he viod and confront crisus.

Popular uprisings my ass. Especially in Ukraine, Egypt, Libya (!) and Syria 😂

So disappointed they sacked Hedges. It was good while it lasted, TRNN.

I think that you are forgetting the contentious 1960s! With the assassination of JFK, the Kent state student shootings by soldiers and the chaos of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, etc!

This is a pretty massive subject matter this guy is taking on. Almost as big as you can get. That is, radically transforming society. And I'm not hearing much more than that some impromptu rebellions in the last decade didn't end up transforming society, which of course is 100% what you would expect. For instance with Occupy Wall Street, like that was ever going to accomplish anything. I don't know what the key to achieving something so vast is, but exuberant street protests by an ultimately very small, disconnected group of agitators however well meaning, is never going to accomplish anything. I've always thought forming new political parties, in our representative democracy, where the laws and policy are created, and where the economic and social fabric of society can be profoundly altered, is the thing to do. Even though it's hard, and thankless, and not at all exciting or romantic like protest movements are. And the citizenry would have to be continuously and vigorously involved at the grassroots level as you settled on policy that a figurehead representative would faithfully legislate and implement. But maybe that's what this guy is saying....

Why does anyone believe Guy Fawkes was a hero?!

What you say about re-representing the Arab Spring or the media choosing to represent the masses that is contrary to the essence of the uprisings. This is also happening now when the Palestinians are being re-represented even while they are being killed, and the supporters of the Palestinians ignore that Hamas’ representation of the Palestinians is a manipulation of the Palestinian movement, and it is a choice approved by the mainstream media, America, Germany, Britain and Israel.

Occupational therapy

I love Chris Hedges, but the George Floyd story is long overdue a revisit by now by any serious journalist including him.

Don't forget about the failed coup in Turkey

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Ive noticed something , when i write a comment. It prints it up twice. But i only write it once. Weird UKposts.

IMO, revolution can never be the answer, as it only results in the continued reliance of the new order on military power, to maintain the changes any revolution brings about. At present, at least here in America, too many of those with the warrior/soldier mentality, find the present order acceptable, if not preferred. Evolution from the ground up - meaning the people living the values that are inherent in a fair society, will then be reflected by the people we elect to represent us in government, and thus they will then pass the kind of direct life-affirming policies/way of living that reflect the idealism, the Left sadly only directs at government. None of this idealism is asked or expected from the people.

If Vincent used proper past, present, future tense in his descriptions of events his stories would be easier to follow. Also Tahrir Square is not “Tucker” square. It’s a sad situation when American academics can’t be bothered to use proper grammar and pronunciation?

Bevin has no special or novel knowledge or skill in his analyses of mass protests in this interview: the cadence then cascade of his dialogue in conjunction with his body language ( *especially* hand movements, head, facial expression, etc ) is highly suspicious [to me], but he, and sadly Hedges, seems oblivious of the *key fact* about much of the shortcomings he iterates: the *superficiality and lack of any real depth of knowledge* by these "masses". This alone explains the "50 or 60" protestors he mentions, and Hedges mentioning Kropotkin capping the number at 150 protestors. Bevin obfuscates/conflates this with his story of the free fares in mass transit/Movimento Passe Livre cause, unable to train numerous new joining-protestors, on a single, fairly simple issue, about a simple procedural process of how to progress that single issue. *No mention* of how far were these mass protesters willing to go.... inhibitions by priestcraft {religion}, "stay back from my wallet", and of course cultural hegemony/'tradition'.... and *the Original Sin* - individual ownership of Land ( why is it *your* property?).... just the obvious, and wise conclusion that vested interests will do all they and their well-paid minions, to thwart such 'impudence' .

This channel is useless without Hedges

UNSUBSCRIBING BECAUSE YOU CANCELED CHRIS’S SHOW. WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE…. SO MUCH FOR FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT.

Shame on "thE rEal NEwS NeTWORk" for cancelling Chris Hedges. I have unsubscribed and am encouraging everyone to do the same!

Nah. They were copying the Tiananmen Square protest Or whatever square protest you want to pick

I UNSUBSCRIBED & I encourage others to do so. REMOVING HEDGES is not acceptable.

I have unsubscribed from The Real News Network. Removing Chris Hedges means I can no longer trust your channel. Whoever made the decision, you totally sold out! Shame on you!

Get a necktie Chris!

We had Occupy Wallstreet then we went WOKE. Clearly "controlled opposition"

Very disappointing you've canceled Chris Hedges, apparently in the sleaziest way possible.

You don't recognize change. Likely because it hasn't manifested in your pre conceived notion of change.

Unsubscribed over Chris Hedges firing

You have lost your soul by letting Chris Hedges go. unsubscribed

"Leninist deviation" LOL "Lenin was an amoral figure," but not Jackson Hinkle, Jason Page, Anglea McArdle, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Tatiana Moroz or Ron Paul

Really? You fired Chris Hedges? Was it because of Kucinich? Yeah, that was it. I'm unsubscribing and you don't care. But you will in time.