Is Neoliberalism destroying the world?
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From the Guardian 2016
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
And the Guardian 2017
The fatal flaw of neoliberalism: it's bad economics
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
And the Guardian 2017
The fatal flaw of neoliberalism: it's bad economics
Northwind
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One way I've heard neoliberalism described is social darwinism. Survival of the fittest and policies which support that. Margaret Thatcher, Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan are seen as major proponents of that ideology. Their policies reflect that. Cutting things like social housing. Reducing welfare. Supporting business related organizations. To heck with the little guy. Milton Friedman is seen as the father (or one of them) of neoliberalism.
Also...the idea that government's main concern is with markets, not citizens.
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Neoliberalism tends to favour laissez-faire economics, deregulation, austerity, privatization. Free trade/globalization is also usually a neoliberal position, although that might be shifting a bit.
One of the fascinating things about neoliberalism historically - the term has been around for well over a century - is that it tends to be a bit of a moving target. When the term arose in the 1930's in response to the Depression it was actually something of a left-wing concept, favouring state intervention in the economy. I'd argue that neoliberalism is always largely reactionary. The rise of what you could call most accurately neo-neoliberalism (ie, a different neoliberalism than what was around in the 30's) starting in the 80's was largely a response to the dominance of Keynesian economics (which, in a way and ironically, was something of an outgrowth of the original neoliberal movement) for several decades. Keynesianism favoured a heavily regulated market economy, the new neoliberalism favoured an end to regulation in favour of letting the market dictate.
One of the fascinating things about neoliberalism historically - the term has been around for well over a century - is that it tends to be a bit of a moving target. When the term arose in the 1930's in response to the Depression it was actually something of a left-wing concept, favouring state intervention in the economy. I'd argue that neoliberalism is always largely reactionary. The rise of what you could call most accurately neo-neoliberalism (ie, a different neoliberalism than what was around in the 30's) starting in the 80's was largely a response to the dominance of Keynesian economics (which, in a way and ironically, was something of an outgrowth of the original neoliberal movement) for several decades. Keynesianism favoured a heavily regulated market economy, the new neoliberalism favoured an end to regulation in favour of letting the market dictate.
The mythical "Free Market"While I do agree that the market needs to be healthy, I don't believe it is free or that if it is free, it will work for the good of all.
There are those stoney (rigid and pious) will argue that only the successful survive ... some of us leave it there and do the ghosting thing ... like the Lone Ranger of heh'm bin atman ... the soul-bodean struggle!
Much older ... kind've like a mosaic carved in a tablet ... mysterious story of those that utilized ghosting in their philosophy ... some say it is all in the mind ...
Gnomons in the desert ... something alternate? General unknowns ...
But; "what if" the mind does not exist ... an essence lost ... autonomy? Some of these attributes can haunt mysteriously because of what we understand ... in the mortal world ... very little about stable connections ... thus great chaos down here!
Just look about you ... in church and w/o!
Are you suggesting liberal in extremes ... bringing us back to the stonewalled position on quieting of tongues on blunders?
Then there is this blunder:
It ll very quiet in the NB News ... a nous gone down! Bad news to the rich and power differs from the whines heard from the little folk about how big man needs more ... a white kneed communication? Some believe not in sitir, satyrs of satire as the sam' thing ... meme chose ... thus isolated ... cause we can't have them in our circle!
This goes round like nothing ... sum total ... it's a dark future in reality when you look for ways out of a failed golden rule ... "g" being a key sign of olden initiations ... gammas go round that dark dome!
Then there is this blunder:
It ll very quiet in the NB News ... a nous gone down! Bad news to the rich and power differs from the whines heard from the little folk about how big man needs more ... a white kneed communication? Some believe not in sitir, satyrs of satire as the sam' thing ... meme chose ... thus isolated ... cause we can't have them in our circle!
This goes round like nothing ... sum total ... it's a dark future in reality when you look for ways out of a failed golden rule ... "g" being a key sign of olden initiations ... gammas go round that dark dome!
I didn't want to start a new thread for this. It's Sam Seder, The Majority Report, commentary about the differences between establishment democrats and the new wave of progressive democrats in the US - and I happen to agree with the assessment.
Northwind
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Unfortunately, not calling it neoliberalism, doesn’t change the nature of the ideology.
How much description and explanation does it take to define everything?
Yet more authorities have a dislike for words expounding on things that are alien to us ... causing some confinement in cognizance ... it may be a mortal problem we escape when in immortal dimensions ... but perhaps not given how much we are allowed to know ...
Yet more authorities have a dislike for words expounding on things that are alien to us ... causing some confinement in cognizance ... it may be a mortal problem we escape when in immortal dimensions ... but perhaps not given how much we are allowed to know ...
Shutting down discussion when labels are used as point of reference descriptors of world views or ideological group behaviours being analyzed or promoted or critiqued, is also problematic. We have to have names for the ideologies and behaviours adopted by groups that influence what direction the future takes, in order to discuss them.
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Neoliberalism is a failed ideology and I think it's okay to name it as such, and discuss better ideas.