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'''Neoliberalism''' is a political ideology which [[Larry Elliot]] suggested might be better termed "unpopulism... i.e. tilting the balance of power in the workplace in favour of management and treating people like wage slaves. Unpopulism was rigged to ensure that the fruits of growth went to the few not to the many."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/26/populism-is-the-result-of-global-economic-failure?CMP=share_btn_fb</ref> | '''Neoliberalism''' is a political ideology which [[Larry Elliot]] suggested might be better termed "unpopulism... i.e. tilting the balance of power in the workplace in favour of management and treating people like wage slaves. Unpopulism was rigged to ensure that the fruits of growth went to the few not to the many."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/26/populism-is-the-result-of-global-economic-failure?CMP=share_btn_fb</ref> | ||
Revision as of 05:38, 28 March 2017
 Neoliberalism  (ideology)   | |
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| Interest of | • Mont Pelerin Society • Pacific Research Institute • Softpanorama |
| An economic doctrine of "ensur[ing] that the fruits of growth [go] to the few not to the many." | |
Neoliberalism is a political ideology which Larry Elliot suggested might be better termed "unpopulism... i.e. tilting the balance of power in the workplace in favour of management and treating people like wage slaves. Unpopulism was rigged to ensure that the fruits of growth went to the few not to the many."[1]
The ideology is not as far removed from neoconservative ideology as the names might suggest, although neoliberalism tends to focus less on the MICC.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| "Free market" | The neocon economic system. |
| Austerity | A meme with tenuous connection to the real world which is typically used by rich politicians in an effort to encourage the majority, poor, populations of their country to accept hardship and deprivation. |
| Globalisation | A modern coinage to refer to the process of the intermixing of previously different and more distinct societies. The phrase is used as something of a front under which to push a corporate friendly neo-liberal agenda. |
| Private finance initiative | |
| Privatisation |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9-11/Official narrative | “It turns out, 45 years later, that those who truly hate us for our freedoms are not the array of dehumanised enemies cooked up by the war machine — the Vietnamese, Cambodians, Afghans, Iraqis, Iranians, even the Taliban, Al-Qaeda or ISIS. They are the financiers, bankers, politicians, public intellectuals and pundits, lawyers, journalists and business people, cultivated in the elite universities and business schools who sold us the Utopian dream of neoliberalism. We are entering the twilight phase of capitalism. Capitalists unable to generate profits by expanding markets have, as Karl Marx predicted, begun to cannibalise the state like ravenous parasites.” | Chris Hedges | 2017 |
| NGO | “It’s almost as though the greater the devastation caused by neoliberalism, the greater the outbreak of NGOs. Nothing illustrates this more poignantly than the phenomenon of the US preparing to invade a country and simultaneously readying NGOs to go in and clean up the devastation.” | Arundhati Roy | 16 August 2004 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Antidote to Privatisation is Public Ownership | Report | 19 September 2022 | Prem Sikka | "The report recommends progressive taxation and democratisation of corporations, so that they serve the interests of communities and people rather than just shareholders and executives. It recommends that essential industries, such as energy, be brought into public ownership. It shows that there is very little cost associated with bringing energy, and other essential industries, into public ownership." |
| Document:Brexit reveals Corbyn to be the true moderate | blog post | 12 September 2019 | Jonathan Cook | It is time to stop acting like zealots for neoliberalism, squabbling over which brand of turbo-charged capitalism we prefer, and face up to our collective responsibility to change our and our children’s future. |
| Document:George Monbiot’s excuses for not speaking out loudly in defence of Assange simply won’t wash | blog post | 6 October 2020 | Jonathan Cook | Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, The Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support for Julian Assange over the past month, as the Wikileaks founder has endured extradition hearings in a London courtroom. |
| Document:Modern Monetary Theory: an explanation | blog post | 18 April 2023 | Richard Murphy | The MMT approach to the command of resources is the polar opposite of that in neoliberalism. MMT seeks to do what is possible. Neoliberalism seeks to constrain what is possible. |
| Document:Privatization for Dummies – The Nuts & Bolts of The World's Biggest Scam | article | 21 March 2019 | Ronald Thomas West |
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