Henry Giroux Quotes

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that can provide alternative points of view, has been so powerful and so normalized.

Everyone who knows me, they know that I am not a socialist.

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.

You should be cautious when criticizing the liberalization of economic theory.

Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: Greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.

Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.

With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded.

We must stand firm against the Left's nationalisation obsession.

Neoliberalism emerged by defining itself against what it labelled as an unrealistic and unsustainable programme of social welfare and public spending.

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

It should not be the government running the economy.

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs - monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism - have been working their way through the culture ever since.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.