#neoliberalism
The neoliberal shift wasn't actually about shrinking the state, what it was about was about crushing collective power. And you see this with like the first moves that politicians like that and Reagan undertake when they come into power it was crush the labor movement. And there was a a discourse that surrounded this well so there was the physical assertion of the power of the state, there was the literal beating up of minors the use of the police to um to put them in their place. But there was this ideological shift as well which was you are not a worker you are not a citizen you are a consumer you are um you know an entrepreneur of the self right. And a lot of neoliberal policies were designed to push this it was like we will allow you to buy your own house we will privatize your pension you will be able to take out loads of debt your life will become this balance sheet of assets and liabilities and it's up to you to manage that. If you manage it well you will do well and you will succeed if you manage it badly you will fail and that will be entirely your own fault.
--- Grace Blakeley, in the interview How capitalism enslaved us all
#GraceBlakeley #neoliberalism #capitalism #individualism #politics
From the perspective of political #economy, the current moment in #capitalism looks like a huge #heist by a few on the rest of #society and neoclassical economics with its trivializing #market narrative serves them as a cover story.
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#knowledge #politics #quote #wisdom #future #humanity #earth #profit #wealth #neoliberalism #finance
The meme that is destroying Western civilisation—Part III
#politics #neoliberalism #economics
Jeremy Corbyn—the previous anti-Neoliberal leader of the Labour Party, who held onto his seat as an independent, after Labour’s current pro-Neoliberal leader Kier Starmer banned him from standing for Labour—put the election result in context when he commented that Labour “has put forward a manifesto that is thin to put it mildly, and doesn’t offer a serious economic alternative to what the Conservative government is doing.”
The root problem, as I noted in my previous post (Substack;Patreon), is that both parties—and almost all of the bureaucracy, the media, and economic thinktanks, as a reader pointed out—have Neoliberalism “embedded in them”.
https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/the-meme-that-is-destroying-western-224
The meme that is destroying Western civilisation—Part II
In the previous post I asked, “why do both sides of politics deliver Neoliberal, austerity-oriented policies when in power? Since they end up being disastrous for them politically, why don’t they offer and try something different?”
The best answer to that question was given by the main architect of mainstream economics, Paul Samuelson. In the foreword to a study guide for lecturers using his textbook Economics, he wrote that:
I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is a privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa [blank slate] at its most impressionable state. (Samuelson 1990)
https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/the-meme-that-is-destroying-western-ac8
I was just in a meeting with NoQ, a Swedish organization that aims to help #homeless people find shelter for the night. The sad truth about #Sweden is that #neoliberalism has destroyed (and is destroying) parts of our social services and care for each other, and is creating a #caste system. But people aren't talking about it because the #narratives is to a large extent controlled by the mainstream/corporate #media
Anybody believing this should get educated on exactly what Pasteurization is and the enforcement of the same via U.S. regulation for DECADES going back to the 19th century. This person hasn't done his proper homework.
♲ Hannu Ikonen MD - 2024-04-28 15:36:37 GMT
Real simple answer to those reassuring about H5N1:Real easy to have a "Pasteurized so all good" take. Really founded on "Just World" adjacent assumptions that agents here dint outright lie to you.
The a priori assumptiom here being, (1) we have a functional government that engages in quality assurance and audits/checks these things and (2) corporations dont take shortcuts or mislead or misrepresent their product.
That belies the last 24 years of broken neoliberal regulation & the tendency of corporations to take shortcuts in response to supply issues, which is very possible with H5N1 running roughshod on the suppliers (cows).
It isnt alarmist at all to be concerned with viral fragments found in milk, if you lack a priori assumptions & let the last 20 years of broken governance & corporate deception speak for itself.
Your assumptions about the world order of Capitalism are flawed & Pollyannaish.
#H5N1 #AvianFlu #Neoliberalism #Capitalism #RegulatoryCapture
Why the Right worships Javier Milei - UnHerd
#politics #neoliberalism #ultraliberalism #stupidity
https://unherd.com/2024/03/why-does-the-right-worship-javier-milei/
International disenfranchisement by the elites of the Judeo-Anglo-American establishment. Faux Hegelian dialectics, social engineering propaganda, psychological and economic warfare, including psychosocial manipulation though mass media and algorithms, done without the consent of the people and funded ostensibly by the people's taxes and consumption. Technocratic, neoliberal, globalist aristocracy.
#disenfranchisement #elites #algorithms #judeoangloamericanestablishment #usa #fauxhegeliandialectics #socialengineering #propaganda #psychologicalwarfare #uk #economicwarfare #massmedia #consent #psychosocialmanipulation #taxation #un #consumption #technocracy #globalism #neoliberalism #aristocracy #elitism #wef #klausschwab #davos #plutocracy #cia #mi6 #tavistock
One for weekend conspiracists (&/or anti-conspiracists)...
On the creeping and ever-darker resurgence of authoritarian, bubbling up from the underworld, globally. (Guardian story)
And referencing one of my personally banned buzzwords, "neoliberal". [poisoning the actual word AND prefix!]
What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies
The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world. And you may find its leaders on a resignation honours list near you
#authoritarianism #fascists #dictators #neoliberalism #geopolitics #DarkMoney
The Intimate Embrace Between Liberalism and The Far Right
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/progressive-wave-latin-america/
#vijayprashad #liberalism #neoliberalism #farright #capitalism #socialism #unity #progressive #latinamerica #politics #culture #marxism #philosophy #ideology
Sweden’s schools minister declares free school ‘system failure’ | Sweden | The Guardian
#politics #education #neoliberalism
Sweden has declared a “system failure” in the country’s free schools, pledging the biggest shake-up in 30 years and calling into question a model in which profit-making companies run state education.
What a surprise: running public services for profit always ends in degraded service, suffering people, and rich plutocrats (hang them! Guillotine them!).
The 9 Nations that Collectively Possess 51% of the World's Land Area, plus population and population density data, 2023.
There are currently 241 Countries and Dependencies on Earth, 3.7% of them are currently in possession of 51% of the land area, with the remaining 49% shared among the remaining 96.3% of polities.
#data #statistics #information #facts #usa #uk #un #nato #globalism #neoliberalism #russia #china #unitedstates #canada #eu #brazil #australia #india #argentina #earth #kazakhstan #land #landarea #nations #graph #chart #wealthofnations #world #context #proportion #share #landshare
#Graph depicting the correlative #trend between number of homicides per 100k of population & mean national #IQ, with Pearson correlation coefficient, for 241 countries & dependencies, 2023.
The #graph shows that as the mean national IQ goes up, the number of homicides per 100k of #population goes down, with a strong correlation of 0.57. This suggests to me that the more #intelligent a population is, the less inclined to commit #homicide it is.
#homiciderate #murder #usa #uk #nato #murderrate #immigration #migrants #eu #globalism #neoliberalism #anthropology #mathematics #data #empiricism #stats #statistics #pearsoncorrelation #elitism #elites #crime #academia #intelligentsia #neoliberalglobalism #massmigration #un #wef #unitednations #agenda2030 #facts
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.
In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
--- Noam Chomsky
#Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ #Algorithm to Raise #Prices
The algorithm was able to track how much Amazon’s power in the e-commerce field would get competitors to move their prices, and in instances in which competitors didn’t move their prices, the algorithm would return Amazon’s prices back down, according to the Journal.
(I don't link to the original source the "Wall Street Journal" because of the paywall.)
Amazon is #neoliberalism in its final stage. It is no longer about manufacturing #costs and fair prices, but only about how to eliminate the #competition with low prices or how high you can rip off your own customers.
#economy #fail #customer #price #online #marketplace #internet #scam #crime #ftc #news #technology #business
The Left is losing the climate class war - UnHerd
#politics #environment #classWar #neoliberalism
Only the neoliberal Left, which, incidentally, is actually on the right.
https://unherd.com/2023/09/the-left-is-losing-the-climate-class-war/
The Other 9/11: How to Make a Nation Scream
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4L5mMTO_J3Y
#jeremycorbyn #vijayprashad #chile #coup #9-11 #1973 #neoliberalism
