describes how that all fell apart in the neoliberal age. It is frequently "competition for thee but not for me". If there is any new idea in the 2020s it is reviving antitrust regulation.
> Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?
Because, for the most part, the (so called) left has signed on (at least in the USA).
> Stranger still, even as the ideology became crisper and the movement more coherent, the lost name was not replaced by any common alternative.
Strange? Why? It's universally embraced. It's the status quo. It's ubiquitous...like air They give names to anything outside that circle but never the cicle itself. It's also a slight of control hand. Orwellian. Without the necessary words, how can we discuss something? The winner is writing the rules. And like Fight Club it persists because no one talks about it. They can't. No words.
> With the help of sympathetic journalists and political advisers, elements of neoliberalism, especially its prescriptions for monetary policy, were adopted by Jimmy Carter’s administration in the US and Jim Callaghan’s government in Britain.
This persists today. Journalism is supposed to be objective and truth-seeking. Instead, the winner has made them into sock puppets. More Orwellian-isms.
Yet point any of these things out to the average punter - leaning left or right - and they just wave their hand, mumble "conspiracy theory" and shove their heads deeper into the sand. Sight the likes of Klein or similar and the choke on the idea of reading a book.
Note: I'm not being a critic, just the messenger.
We're in The Matrix (so to speak), it's only going to deepen its bite going forward.
Yeah I think the reason people don't see it is because large segments of both major parties are on the same "neoliberal" team, and that confuses people. What is the neoliberal color and how do I vote for or against it?
Off topic. First off all, I've come here to read some hacker news. Second, im tired of these articles by self deprecating mesianic pseudo intellectuals rooting for the "end" of capitalism with a starbucks cup In the right hand and an iphone on the left hand. third, there's no "neoliberalist ideology", there's not a neoliberal manifesto or anything like that, the term was coined by a marxist (a real idiology) to excuse the faults of its own, creating an "enemy to overcome", and Keep the public fighting windmills while they strip you down from everything they want, all for the sake of 'equality", resulting in the worst tragedies the world has ever seen, poverty, hunger, and blood. Please don't let them fool you... they say "eat the rich", with hatred in their heart, not with love, and please consider, for the rest of the world, you are the rich. Once an old man said, to live in a better world, just be better yourself.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 34.2 ms ] threadBefore neoliberalism there were attempts to rein in the power of monopoly and promote competition. This blog
https://mattstoller.substack.com/
describes how that all fell apart in the neoliberal age. It is frequently "competition for thee but not for me". If there is any new idea in the 2020s it is reviving antitrust regulation.
Indeed. Welfare state for the economic elite, unregulated capitalism for the workforce.
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?
Because, for the most part, the (so called) left has signed on (at least in the USA).
> Stranger still, even as the ideology became crisper and the movement more coherent, the lost name was not replaced by any common alternative.
Strange? Why? It's universally embraced. It's the status quo. It's ubiquitous...like air They give names to anything outside that circle but never the cicle itself. It's also a slight of control hand. Orwellian. Without the necessary words, how can we discuss something? The winner is writing the rules. And like Fight Club it persists because no one talks about it. They can't. No words.
> With the help of sympathetic journalists and political advisers, elements of neoliberalism, especially its prescriptions for monetary policy, were adopted by Jimmy Carter’s administration in the US and Jim Callaghan’s government in Britain.
This persists today. Journalism is supposed to be objective and truth-seeking. Instead, the winner has made them into sock puppets. More Orwellian-isms.
Yet point any of these things out to the average punter - leaning left or right - and they just wave their hand, mumble "conspiracy theory" and shove their heads deeper into the sand. Sight the likes of Klein or similar and the choke on the idea of reading a book.
Note: I'm not being a critic, just the messenger.
We're in The Matrix (so to speak), it's only going to deepen its bite going forward.
How someone that use as slogan "hire American, buy American" can be defined "neoliberal"?