In 1948 US State Department mandarin George Kennan – the man credited with devising the policy of containment vis-à-vis the Soviet Union at the end of WWII, – laid bare the focus of US foreign policy in the postwar period:Dynamite article.
“We have about 50 percent of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3 percent of its population…Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern or relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreamings…We are going to have to deal in straight power concepts.”The “pattern of relationships” advocated by Kennan is embodied in the panoply of international institutions that have governed our world and dominated the planet’s economic, geopolitical, and military architecture in the seven decades since.
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Either the EU ditches neoliberalism or its people will ditch the EU
John Wight
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Radical Philosophy
Starting again from Marx
Antonio Negri
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Liberals, the Populist Right & the Politics of Imperialism
Tony Norfield
What is "neoliberalism"? Neo-imperialism and neocolonialism, along with elite rule domestically that colonizes the population. Currently, the political aspect of capitalism is neoliberalism. The political aspect of socialism is progressivism, and the political aspect of authoritarianism is nationalist populism.
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"Either the EU ditches neoliberalism or its people will ditch the EU"
This article challenges me to revise my opinions. I had considered neoliberalism to be a product of modern social decay. As I saw it, the age of industrial capitalism was followed by the age of neoliberalism, in which the financial markets rule, and creditors steadily reduce the earth to feudalism, where bankers and oligarchs own everything and everyone, and the masses live in a continually worsening dystopia.
This article suggests that global neoliberalism is not inevitable, but is instead the outgrowth of a malignant US-led world order that has prevailed since the end of World War II. The article concedes that the neoliberal plague has infected the world, but it proposes that the plague is an aspect of American influence, whose weapons include debt. Remove the USA, and you chop off the head off the neoliberal serpent.
If this is true, then perhaps there is yet hope for mankind.
It sounds reasonable. For example, most of the world bows to Israel, but the Israeli parasite would perish without its U.S. host. The IMF and World Bank (both led by the USA) use debt as a weapon to keep nations divided and weak. Debt also encourages rich people in various nations to adopt neoliberalism, so that they may widen the gap between themselves and the lower classes.
In short, perhaps neoliberalism is simply part of the global stench of Judeo-American exceptionalism, which has now entered its twilight.
I agree that, “either the EU ditches neoliberalism or its people will ditch the EU.”
Since the Troika cannot and will not change, the EU project must collapse. It’s only a question of time and human suffering.
I find it encouraging that the European peasantry is finally starting to see that their enemies are not “Nazis” or “racists” or even immigrants, but the dictatorial EU.
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