“It is our job to make the powerful frightened of us,” the Truthdig columnist said in a discussion about the future of the Bernie Sanders movement. “That is what movements do. Movements keep power in check, and as any good anarchist will tell you, power is always the problem, no matter who holds it.”

Hedges begins to speak at 38:10 in the following clip, recorded on May 20 at the Left Forum in New York City.

— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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