Category Archives: Neoliberalism

“We live in a time of radical counter-enlightenment”

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Marc

“We live in a time of radical counter-enlightenment” Rainer Mausfeld, October 2018 https://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2018/12/127513.html Psychologist Rainer Mausfeld is interviewed about the illusion of being informed, “contempt for the people” and journalists and intellectuals. Political struggle always means the struggler over the … Continue reading →

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Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism Forum, Oct 24, 18, 8 hours

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Marc

Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism, 8 hrs, Oct 2018, therealnews.org https://youtu.be/WjWETN1E6YA?t=1056 Market Fundamentalism is the dogmatic belief that unregulated, “laissez-faire” markets are the only answer to the world’s biggest social and economic problems. It’s time to confront the myths … Continue reading →

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“We Live in a Time of Radical Counter-Enlightenment” by Rainer Mausfeld

Posted on October 21, 2018 by Marc

Rainer Mausfeld is a professor psychology at the University of Kiel. https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/21/18818378.php In the past decades, democracy was undermined in an unparalleled way. Democracy was replaced by the illusion of democracy, free public debate by the management of opinion and … Continue reading →

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Carl Schmitt and the New Right

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Marc

Carl Schmitt and the New Right by Bernd Reismann, 2005 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/21/18817017.php The intellectual New Right may be more a loose network of persons, political projects, publications and publishers than an organization or party. Carl Schmitt redefined democracy as the “identity … Continue reading →

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Video: Thomas Frank: Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society, 58 min

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Marc

Video: Thomas Frank, Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society, CSpan, June 27, 2018, 58 min https://www.c-span.org/video/?447453-2/rendezvous-oblivion# This is what society looks like when the glue fails, a time of cascading collapse, a golden age of corruption when the … Continue reading →

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Against Market Radicalism

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Marc

Against Market Radicalism by Christa Luft, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/06/18816770.php Capitalism is not “the end of history” as the American Francis Fukuyama postulated in 1992. The system question is open! Nothing raises the system question as clearly as capital itself. The economy … Continue reading →

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Capitalism and Worldwide Inequality

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Marc

Capitalism and Worldwide Inequality by Conrad Schuhler and Thomas Fromm, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/01/18816686.php Thomas Piketty’s motto “Inequality is always a problem when it is excessive” introduces the new World Inequality Report. The inequalities of income and wealth swell globally and in … Continue reading →

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Amazon, the Elephant in the Bookshop

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Marc

Amazon, the Elephant in the Bookshop by Attac Germany and the Alternative Economic Policy study group in Bremen, Germany, 2018 and 2010 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/26/18816019.php Amazon is one of many examples of a gigantic problem. International corporations shirk from contributing their just … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism – A Symbiotic Pair

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Marc

Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism – A Symbiotic Pair by Sebastian Dittrich, grin.com https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/10/18815568.php Rightwing populist parties mix the conventional rightwing authoritarian political style with neoliberal economic ideas emphasizing the free unregulated market and the sleek but strong state. For Hayek, a … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism or New Freedom for Corporations

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Marc

Neoliberalism or New Freedom for Corporations by Elrich Spangenberger, 2010 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/06/18815519.php “The interests of merchants always differ from public interests. As a rule, they are interested in deceiving and misusing the general public” (Adam Smith). Keynes established that the market … Continue reading →

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