Unser "sozialdemokratischer" Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz stellt sich öffentlich hinter die ideologischen Sparmaßnahmen und Kürzungen, die Christian Lindner für den neuen Haushalt durchdrücken möchte.
Mit diesen Sozialdemokraten brauchst du keine Neoliberalen mehr (gilt spätestens seit Schröder).
(Some) ignorant leftbros: "Class first! No idpol!"
Scholars of right wing politics/economics: "All these right-wing thinkers are much more comfortable thinking about the blurred lines between sexual and economic politics than many thinkers on the left. And they understand that Keynesianism rests on a certain kind of sexual contract. Any challenge to this order—whether it be an escalation of wage or benefit claims, or the flight from sexual normativity, or unmarried women claiming welfare benefits—disrupts the fiscal and monetary calculus on which Keynesianism rests."
Above remark from "The Extravagances of Neoliberalism", an interview of Melinda Cooper (author of "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance") by Benjamin Kunkel, in The Baffler.
"breaking Scotland from the shackles of #neoliberal thinking should be very high on its agenda, and yet it keeps getting leaders who seem more than happy to embrace that approach, and make Scotland suffer for it" – @RichardJMurphy
Almost 4/10 people in the US, one of the wealthiest countries in the world, experience unhealthy levels of air pollution.
"Climate change is not remote, it’s not an abstraction. It is a reality impacting the health of millions of people from coast to coast every year," as forest fires contribute to this.
This shows the #neoliberal prediction that rising wealth will solve environmental issues (called the Environmental Kuznets Curve) is a myth.
Ein schönes Beispiel, was bei Privatisierung der Infrastruktur passiert:
Margaret Thatcher ließ englische Wasserfirmen 1989 privatisieren. Seit dem haben sie mehr als 70 Milliarden Euro an Aktionäre ausgezahlt, in Infrastruktur aber nur minimal investiert.
Konsequenz: Englische Gewässer versinken im Dreck und Briten landen wegen der Bakterien im Abwasser immer häufiger im Krankenhaus.
Wish progressive #BCNDP politicians were pragmatic enough to realize there's no way to revive party w/current caucus #StatusQuo w/ #neoliberal BC NDP party. If they were wiser, used critical longterm thinking skills - they'd transition to BC Green Party.
Almost every single person I know & almost every single person my family, friends & neighbours know - who were former longtime BC NDP supporters left & joined #BCGreens.
I'm not a member of any political party & am supporting Greens.
"Like most #neoliberal institutions, #Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs"
While planning on begrudgingly casting a ballot for Biden this year, it's wild to see so many takes saying, "Yeah, #genocide is bad, but OTHER THAN THAT..." as if that's something you can gloss over. That's some real #neoliberal BS.
And it's not even like Biden will do anything meaningful on the #ClimateCrisis either, the other greatest threat facing our world. His continued subsidies of #FossilFuels and giving passes to mega carbon emitters over the past four years is proof of that.
And don't give me BS about, "bUt He'Ll sTaBIlIzE DeMoCraCy!!!" The previous administration showed where the holes in the US government system were and where safeguards should have been deployed. Instead of working to install those safeguards, he chose to use them as a bargaining chip for a second term.
Improvements to The Economy(TM) and employment numbers means shit when people have to work 2 or 3 jobs to keep their families off the street.
I urge all who can to vote for Biden in the hopes that the administration stabilizes the broken country long enough for the next generation, whom we have SORELY wronged, to present a new generation of truly #progressive leaders and hope that another term doesn't further entrench the "conservative-lite." I equally urge you to hold him accountable for his misdeeds.
Can someone recommend environmental and ecological #economics literature from the moral perspective that the only relevant metric is #WildAnimalWelfare What economic policies would have the best impact in reducing wild animal suffering?
Ein erstes Fazit zu Mileis bisheriger Amtszeit in Argentinien:
In den knapp 70 Tagen seiner Regierung haben sich nach der massiven Abwertung des Peso im Dezember, der Freigabe von Tarifen und der Einstellung aller öffentlichen Arbeiten die Wirtschaftsdaten katastrophal verschlechtert. Inflation, Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut sind sprunghaft gestiegen und der Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung ist bereits stark zurückgegangen.
Dear US folks who don't plan to #Vote because neither party is #progressive enough,
It's good to remember why we have two very #neoliberal parties. The Dems took a sharp right turn because (apart from a brief respite in the Carter administration) they had been getting handily out-voted in elections for decades and moved right in response.
Voting is less about the candidates and policies of this election and more about the direction we want to change.
For anyone still delusional about #neoliberal "democracy"
#CBS confiscated the files of the journalist investigating #Biden
Investigative reporter #KatherineHeritz, who recently asked questions about #US President Biden and #HunterBiden, has been fired by CBS. When she was fired, CBS confiscated notes and research from her office, including confidential information from sources.
Putting GDP to debt ratio and ‘growth’ as the icons on their altar, Labour will consign us to a decade more of market-led plunder, gross inequality, runaway climate crisis…
When what we need is boldly different, based on the society we want to be, not the trickle-down model we’ve got, tinkered with.
The shadowy #AtlasNetwork which brings together a global 'community' of right wing think tanks (often typified as #neoliberal) is (as George Monbiot points out in the Guardian this morning - not yet online), behind the cooker cutter rightist policies that #PresidentJavierMilei is bringing to #Argentina...
And so if the 'shock treatment' & re/de-regulatory agenda look familiar its because these are the policies Atlas associates have been pushing around the world.
Central banks should be fighting the #climate crisis – here’s why
"Our recent research points out that their policies have been slowing down – rather than speeding up – transformative climate action. The problem is these banks focus on #FinancialStability in the near term, which means propping up a status quo which promotes further climate instability. And that means they are making things more unstable in the long term."
@CelloMomOnCars Our central bank in #Canada could certainly do this. The #COMER lawsuit a few years back was aimed at using this power "for good" instead of simply providing leverage to the big banks as seems to be the #neoliberal way. In past decades it was used eg to build the St. Lawrence Seaway, Trans Canada highway as they outline in their What's Next post. Using it to directly fund climate action in the same way is certainly possible. https://comer.org/news/whats-next-comer/#cdnpoli
Elinor Ostrom, writing about some foundational assumptions of #neoliberal#economics. (Applying the tragedy of the commons, prisoner's dilemma, etc. to macroeconomics)
No, #privatization is not the solution to prevent degradation of common pool resources. Obviously.
But our politicians, education, and media corporations continue to listen to and perpetuate the bullshit of conservative think tanks and their so-called "experts", instead of actual economists.
Also, a previous post from @pluralistic comes to mind.
The Neoliberal Against Malaria 2023 fundraiser has started! Running today through the 17th. All funds go to the Against Malaria Foundation and goes to buy mosquito nets....
I wish the situation was different, but I still find great satisfaction in that top politicians in #Sweden FINALLY has been forced to admit that #rail travel is no longer reliable enough to be considered a viable mode of transport with an implied stutter of humiliation
…after they have been in the process of forcing a shift from “undesirable” modes of transport to one that their #neoliberal strategies broke down for 30 years, and that will take generations to repair at an unimaginable cost
If you want to help, join an advocacy group, go to your city council meeting, join your #union, go read about #solarpunk, start a #garden in your front yard! Learn to #repair your clothes and appliances instead of buying new ones.
You don't have the time or mental energy to do that? Of course you don't! We all work too much! That the #neoliberal world we live in. So quit your job! Find a better job!
The Neoliberal Against Malaria 2023 (www.againstmalaria.com)
The Neoliberal Against Malaria 2023 fundraiser has started! Running today through the 17th. All funds go to the Against Malaria Foundation and goes to buy mosquito nets....