A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey 2/5
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@FreakishDonQuixote Many American founders were for free public education, subsidizing presses to make newspapers available to everyone, protectionism against transnational corporations, etc. Contrary to the rhetoric of some, equality in results can't be separated from equality of opportunity. The only way to create equality is by redistributing wealth (such as to public education or such as Paine's ideas in Agrarian Justice) in order to reverse the prior redistribution to the oligarchy.
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There was a lecture given by the guy who wrote "Lockdown" and his point was that capitalism became too good from the 40s to 60s.
The idea is that companies could no longer make a bigger profit because everyone already bought everything.
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@univity78 Here, Here! I used to believe in liberalist values and detested conservative values. I still do detest conservative values, but, I understand now that both sides are essentially flawed.
One solution to the current problems is simple, MAKE THE ELITE AND BILLIONAIRES PAY TAXES PROPORTIONAL TO THEIR EARNINGS. I know things are more complicated with global capital flows and offshore bank funds, proportionality can be used to gain more quality in the flow to ensure greater stability.
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"We'll give you the individual liberty and freedom, and you forget the social justice." Harvey's words are so plausible, here -- it certainly appears that this is precisely what has happened.
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you can read it on google books. Of course he leaves a lot of details out in this talk due to time but it's a pretty good summary.
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Fascism. It's what's for dinner!
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Has anyone read his book? how much of his presentation is focused on what he wrote in the book? Is any of it information that he had not included in the book?
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Thanx for puthing this hear
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@motina10 if you read harvey's book (which i strongly recommend doing) you'll find that he says that neoliberals take many of the same ideas of classical liberalism (individual freedom and the like.) The "neo" part comes from their general adherence to neo-classical economics.
You can call shit gold.. It remains shit!
Neoliberalism has kept the majority in poverty and the elite fat and rich. Its disgusting how greedy these people are. Heartless thiefs and oppressors walking around so proud of themselves. What a waste of maternity they were.
univity78 3 years ago 27
most classical liberals where for free education, neolibs do the opposite. classical liberalism was a movement that was always strongly pro-democratic, from the bottom up, neoliberalism is the opposite. neoliberalism is really a perversion of cl. liberalism.
FreakishDonQuixote 2 years ago 20