“a button that elites can press to open the door to the masses”
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
“For the elite, living comfortably in their gilded ghettos, the world must indeed seem a better place.”
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
“With the whole world in economic recession, a new approach was called for.”
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
“Volcker and Thatcher both plucked from the shadows of relative obscurity a particular doctrine that went under the name of ‘neoliberalism’ and transformed it into the central guiding principle of economic thought and management.”
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
“Powerful corporations in alliance with an interventionist state were seen to be running the world in individually oppressive and socially unjust ways.”
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
― A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Critical Theory
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Non-sectarian leftism. United Front in perspective, rather than Popular Front. Intended for anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, trade unionists, left ex ...more
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