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Within the United States especially, the often violent response to nonviolent forms of youth protests must be analyzed within the framework of a mammoth military-industrial state and its commitment to war and the militarization of the entire society.

Henry Giroux

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Henry Giroux
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 18
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