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

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics of a form of economic Darwinism that now governs much of the world. This system must be demystified, politicized, and recognized for the ways in which it has come to pose a dire threat to democracy.

Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about equality, social justice, or the public welfare, but about the trade in goods, financial capital, and commodities.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

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