Neoliberalism

And then fast-forward and in the 1960s and early 70s, the reaction to war Keynesianism is precisely what gave rise to modern neoliberalism, which many people start with Reagan.

But there are solid reasons to think that the default setting of neoliberalism – that organised labour is always weak – is becoming a thing of the past.

Indeed, the politics of development, which amplified their activities in contemporary Africa necessarily transformed many of them into the Trojan horses of neoliberalism and the recolonisation agenda of the West.

Neoliberalism has succeeded in union busting and restricting workers from participating in political and institutional decision making.

Not only is it code for defending the toxic policies of neoliberalism, but it also devalues the very real war against democracy being waged by the far-right by suggesting the left engages in the same struggle.

The EFF is an unashamedly a socialist party and the ANC has become a social democratic party, but more leaning towards neoliberalism.

The PTI’s social programme barely got off the ground, and soon the party was acting like every other that has bent before neoliberalism.

They are matched only by a civic culture that is under siege by the apostles of neoliberalism promoting privatization, consumerism, anti-intellectualism and a brutal market ideology purposefully bereft of any sense of social responsibility.

Along with the freer movement of goods and capital, neoliberalism calls for the freer movement of people.

He’s a predator, and his prey are the psychologically and emotionally vulnerable, people crushed by 40 years of Reagan’s neoliberalism, now desperate for simple answers to complex problems.

If you wanted to choose one individual as the face of “neoliberalism” for an encyclopedia entry, you could do a lot worse.

In this interview, Mamani talks about this this type of journalism, how the city has changed over the past twenty years since its pivotal role in the uprisings against neoliberalism at the turn of this century.

Neoliberalism has downgraded and denied these necessities and the institutions we have created to promote the public good.

Nothing is more cohesive and legitimising than a foreign enemy, when it comes to constructing the European neo-militarist project, which is not really about defending Ukraine but instead supports European leaders’ authoritarian neoliberalism.

Over the past thirty years, we’ve been dealing with the dominance of neoliberalism.

What neoliberalism has given us instead is greater division – something the billionaires gathered at Davos ought to consider this week as they reminisce about forums past.

Although the impact on nation-states has been uneven, as Waitzkin and Hellander correctly proclaim, where neoliberalism has obtained influence, health care has been redesigned in its image.

He and the Clintons were also central to the Democratic Party's embrace of neoliberalism.

His main research interests are in European economic integration, globalization, the political economy of the United States and the deconstruction of neoliberalism’s politico-economic project.

Indeed, Sanders has been right that this tradition of thought is more authentically American than the more recent short-sighted and acquisitively individualistic public philosophy nurtured by neoliberalism.