The GOP has no unifying philosophy other than hate, fear, and kowtowing to billionaires and their giant corporations; the people who make up its governing class are similarly fractured.
Tag: neoliberalism
Neoliberalism Was Built on Anti-Worker Repression
For a generation, academics have described a virtuous circle of democracy, free trade, and the empowerment of workers in developing countries. That’s simply not what neoliberalism has meant in practice.
Ukraine’s Tale of Two Colonizations
LJUBLJANA – As everyone knows, Volodymyr Zelensky played a Ukrainian president in the television series “Servant of the People” before becoming Ukraine’s president in real life, and that irony led many not to take him seriously (as if a president who previously served in the KGB is better). But less well known is the basic plot of the series.
Behind the Rise in Union Support—And the Challenge Ahead
The inequities leading to the current moment largely derive from the policies of neoliberalism, a model of unfettered capitalism.
Source: Opinion | Behind the Rise in Union Support—And the Challenge Ahead | Chuck Idelson
Only Fools Count on Capital to Stop Late Fascism
A year and half after the attempted physical coup that marked the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, I am still lectured by certain older white and male “leftists” on how it is childish wolf-crying to say that a fascist menace stalks the United States. The lectures hold that “the American ruling class is opposed to fascism and will not let it take hold here. This is neoliberal capitalism,” their argument runs, “and the ruling class will not permit a fascist state here in the absence of a revolutionary socialist proletariat like the ones that convinced the Italian and German bourgeoisies to line up behind Mussolini and Hitler in interwar 20th Century Europe.” In short, It Can’t Happen Here, because the ruling class doesn’t need and want it and won’t allow it.
Source: Only Fools Count on Capital to Stop Late Fascism – CounterPunch.org
The Great Microchip Corporate Giveaway: Sanders
At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, the American people are sick and they are tired of the unprecedented level of corporate greed that is
Source: The Great Microchip Corporate Giveaway – CounterPunch.org
Chile Finalizes New Draft Constitution in Bid to Bury Pinochet’s Neoliberal Legacy
“This is an ecological and equal constitution with social rights at its very core,” the president of Chile’s constituent assembly said of the new document, which the nation’s adults will vote on in September.
Source: Chile Finalizes New Draft Constitution in Bid to Bury Pinochet’s Neoliberal Legacy
1848+: The End(s) of History 