Tag: Neoliberalism
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Latin America: The Importance of Speaking without Uniforms
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Social media functions as a public meeting place that, beyond its tendency to sometimes enclose us in bubbles, allows us to sound out opinions on current events. Recently, for instance, we have been able to witness the demand that a certain part of the left close ranks with the government of Evo Morales regarding the…
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The Imminent Threat of Trump and the Value of Progressive Third Parties
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As predictable as death and taxes is the quadrennial injunction from liberals for progressive third parties to cease and desist. Equally predictable is the admonition that this will be the most decisive presidential election in US history. Given the prospect of four more years of Trump, do they have a valid thesis or are they…
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Bolivia: the Danger of Neoliberalism With Fascist Characteristics
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After the military coup we are told that we are witnessing the fact that “a political current within Catholicism advocates violence in the name of God” in Bolivia. Far from being a new phenomenon, this violent religious fanaticism is not different from what the European colonisers did in Latin America centuries ago.
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Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China
When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31stfor the first time in more than a decade, commentators were asking why. According to official data, the economy was rebounding, unemployment was below 4%, and GDP growth was above 3%. If anything, by the Fed’s own reasoning, it should have been raising rates. The explanationof market…
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Ecuador’s Dilemma
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The main lesson of correísmo is that no project of transformation, if it wants to sustain and even deepen social change, can weaken the people who propel it forward. The Ecuadorian government of Rafael Correa (2007–2017) stirred hopeful expectations in the continental and global lefts. Although the young economist did not have a record of…
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Under Neoliberalism, You Can Be Your Own Tyrannical Boss
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The culture of perfectionism and 'meritocracy' spawned by neoliberalism has pushed alienation to new heights. Has the US left allowed itself to be contaminated by the same mindset?
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Why we can’t rely on corporations to save us from climate change
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While businesses have been principal agents in increasing greenhouse gas emissions, they are also seen by many as crucial to tackling climate change. However, our research shows how corporations’ ambitious pro-climate proposals are systematically degraded by criticism from shareholders, media, governments, other corporations and managers. This “market critique” reveals the underlying tension between the demands…
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This Is Not Populism
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John Bellamy Foster informs us that Trump's political vision is not populism, but actually neofascism.
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Imperialism Is Alive and Kicking: A Marxist Analysis of Neoliberal Capitalism
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C.J. Polychroniou interviews Prabhat Patnaik on the continuing role imperialism plays in the capitalist world-system.
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Europe’s False Choice
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Miguel Urban argues that Europeans are being given a false choice between neoliberalism and nationalism.