A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey 1/5

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[porilloto]

FUCK the Neoliberalism.

[duganrushes]

I'm about 1/3 of the way through "A Brief History of Neoliberalism." From what I'm learning through reading his book and through articles I've read on the history of how corporations have moved over time to take over governments worldwide, I have come to believe the only way to remove corporatists, aka fascists, is to overthrow them. Elites are placing us in a position that if they continue as they are, people eventually will rise up in revolution. It's already happening in the ME and Africa.

[sfjeff1089]

I disagree with some other posters here. The solution is not revolution, but education. We need to have more people out there that see the big picture and can explain it, and the Internet will be a major enabling tool for this.

[palindrome234]

Hey where was this speech given does anyone know?

[Dracullia]

@honkdalonk The oil companies won't leave cause then they have no oil - easy fix. Whereas Denmark as an example has to find a balance between taxation AND competition with other countries. The Danish state is despite it's previous alledgedly "liberal" government, expanding and expanding - and sadly now it has become too big, the socialist solution, is raising taxes from rich people, this will GUARANTEED cost some jobs, no one thinks about changing the ineffective enormous redistribution maze!

[Dracullia]

@honkdalonk I have nothing against a social market economy, which Denmark very much is. I have a problem when the social"ist" part becomes too vast. And besides that, i have a problem with anyone who uses Norway as an example of anything, but a beautiful country - because it really is unrealistic, not cause they have a social market economy, but because they have the money and guaranteed income do it. Like they don't have to tax anyone but the oil companies, and they can afford all their welfare

[Melonemelo]

When it comes to Great Britain, i know that there was an era of deregulation there during the Thatcher years. I have no idea what it looks like today. But according to several rankings switzerland, ireland, denmark, estonia, luxembourg and netherlands are more liberal than great britain

[Melonemelo]

@honkdalonk

That's still wrong. In Germany, we have a very centralised wage bargaining system, minimum wages in many sectors, goverment intervention and regulation in many markets. The state interfers in markets, but it is not always obvious. We have health security subsidized by government and social security.

The labour market reforms were neccessary and do now contribute towards more employment. Before these reforms, everyone was able to drop out of school an get social security.

[honkdalonk]

@Dracullia Social market economy worked in germany. To 2005 or better 1998, after the Bundeskanzler Schröder came and made an neoliberalism system here. A Social market economy war the best thing in Germany after the War. And that work in Norway today too. That have nothing to do with oil. Germany have no oil, gas or something. So come on. Social market economy is a modern socialism and capatilism in one.

[Dracullia]

@porilloto Why only poor people are socialists...

[Dracullia]

@honkdalonk Hahaha... You say Denmark isn't an evidence of socialism, and you pull up NorwaY?? haha really? - Do you have any idea how unrealistic the Norwegian economy actually is? It is fuelled by an abnormally high production of oil per capita - ANYONE and i seriously mean ANYONE could make a socialist state work with that much oil...