Neoliberalism, then, is much more than just a set of ideas about free markets. It’s a political project that aims not only to reduce the power of the state but, more concretely, to undermine the efforts of any collective actor — be it states, labor unions, political parties — to interfere with the decisions of private enterprises. This project to alter the balance of power is the key to its resilience.…Defend Democracy Press
Neoliberalism Has Always Been a Threat to Democracy
Aldo Madariaga, assistant professor of political science at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile and associate researcher of the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies
The left is too preoccupied with wokeness to pose a threat to the status quo.
ReplyDeleteThe authoritarian left is easily co-opted by the ruling class, as evidenced by the pandemic.
The last defenders of democracy in the current climate are libertarians. Which is more or less an admission that democracy is doomed.
"The last defenders of democracy in the current climate are libertarians."
ReplyDeleteYou've got to be joking even Adam Smith recognised that human beings had the imaginative capacity to put themselves in other people's shoes. This we know led to Parliamentary government where given a fair electoral system conversations can adequately take place to determine how much putting ourselves in other people's shoes should take place!
Gallows humor.
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