Stuart Hall: On Obama
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2012
- Cultural theorist Stuart Hall comments on the Left's naive expectations of the Obama administration and their subsequent disappointments.
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He is my grandfather
I have learned so much from him through all the videos posted. The world has lost a man who explained so well how power structures work.
Class will ALWAYS be CLASS! What a futuristic thinker
Man I wish we had his intellect and his perspective among us now, I'd love to know how he'd view the social/cultural/political discursive shifts of these past few months in the U.S.
Great intellect. Would have loved to study under him. RIP.
A very wise, thoughtful man. RIP Prof. Hall.
I have sat in the chair he is sitting in in this video
I wonder what Hall would have said about Trump. Genuinely interested, this isn't baiting.
He was gonna point how the media create false image about Trump , fake qoutes especially, false narratives
He spokes in easy words, and wrote books with complex language. That is one of the influences of being extraordinarily knowledgeable.
Why isn't Professor Hall given his full title. I studied under him in 1990. I thought he was fantastic. So eloquent. He would have made a great Prime Minister.
Excellent. We have to take responsibility for what we thought he was going to achieve in the first place. It was so unrealistic and we have to look to ourselves for that. Personally, I was more than happy to see a black president, to actually witness that in my life time but I did not have a high expectation of him in terms of his socialist credentials.
Obama had no socialist credentials
I think Hall is saying that it could have been different with regard to the list of specific things that he's disappointed by and concerned with (concessions on health, double-talk on Afghanistan, etc.), not that it could have been different in terms of systemic change.
Need to differentiat between a real Left (minisule) and what Edward Herman was first to call the Cruise Missile 'Left' (this should be renamed the Hellfire Missile 'Left'). To understand Obama and false Hope, look at US imperial policy. Then never forget Gramsci's optimism of the will. And pay attention to Glen Ford.
Que ponto de vista incrível!!!
Great
Prince of darkness is a gentleman.
The last statement confuses me. So did he think there could be change or not? It sounds at the beginning that he had a very pessimistic (realist) view of Washington politics, but at the end that he thought there could actually be change for some reason.
Yeah I want him to keep going, I feel like it just stopped when there was still more to say..?
Master
Yes, but I think he lets Obama down too lightly on even those issues. He does speak from the perspective of 2-3 years into Obama's presidency and that's still early days. It takes longer than that for the effects of a previous administration to work through and out. We can now see they haven't, but have, rather, been reinforced.
Well...what say you now
@@Jamluji Obama's presidency went downhill even more than I expected. Would Stuart Hall have been harsher from a later perspective? I hope so, but my comment was only months from his death, so he didn't see the whole of Obama's time in office.
It's good to give some kind of critical support that Obama became President; having a black( al be it coconut) president of USA has made tremdous difference progressively and culturally.
However Stuart Hall, with his politics has capitulated as many others have done the genuinely revolutionising society with his other compatriots of Marxism Today.
With this he cannot have any genuine materialist analysis with the clashes and contradictions of formation of Democratic Party (or at least since Rossovelt/Johnson) or for that matter social democracy as a whole. Not understanding its social patriotism and neo colonial nature of modern Democratic Party & Stuart Hall putting class struggle analysis as quantative materialist and motivating factor on the 'back burner', reinterpretating Gramsci for his/their own capitulating & revisionist schematics he refuses to see the petty bourgeois nature of the Democrats, caught between the interests of poor and working people and that of big finance. Forced into mimic the voice of the emancipator and the capitulating practice of the 'safety valve.'
Bit like Sutart Hall himself, however unlike the likes of Hobsbawn he choice tha divisive and in many cases anti working class politics of identity & post modernist narrative as his path leading others into the swamp.