By Michael Nevradakis
Truthout | Interview - Sunday, 19 October 2014
Henry Giroux discusses the increasingly negative impact of
neoliberalism across the world, politically, socially, economically and
in terms of education, and he offers some suggestions for what we must
do now.
An interview with Henry Giroux:
Michael Nevradakis for Dialogos: Let's begin with a
discussion about some topics you've spoken and written extensively about
... neoliberalism and what you have described as "casino capitalism."
How have these ideas taken hold politically and intellectually across
the world in recent years?
Henry Giroux: I think since the 1970s it's been the
predominant ideology, certainly in Western Europe and North America. As
is well known, it raised havoc in Latin America, especially in Argentina
and Chile and other states. It first gained momentum in Chile as a
result of the Chicago Boys. Milton Friedman and that group went down
there and basically used the Pinochet regime as a type of petri dish to
produce a whole series of policies. But I think if we look at this very
specifically, we're talking about a lot of things.
We're talking about an ideology marked by the selling off of public
goods to private interests; the attack on social provisions; the rise of
the corporate state organized around privatization, free trade, and
deregulation; the celebration of self interests over social needs; the
celebration of profit-making as the essence of democracy coupled with
the utterly reductionist notion that consumption is the only applicable
form of citizenship. But even more than that, it upholds the notion that
the market serves as a model for structuring all social relations: not
just the economy, but the governing of all of social life.
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