Schitterend artikel van George Monbiot. Longread van zijn nieuw boek How Did We Get into This Mess?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...george-monbiot
Mustread.
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But, as Hayek remarked on a visit to Pinochet’s Chile – one of the first nations in which the programme was comprehensively applied – “my personal preference leans toward a liberal dictatorship rather than toward a democratic government devoid of liberalism”
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Terwijl Hayek zich aanschurkte tegen de bloederige dictator Pinochet, weigerde ik een promotie om sales manager te worden in Chili voor een world leading multinational, toen mijn “beschermheer” daar enthousiast CEO werd en mij wou meenemen. Mijn maag keerde evenwel naar Pinochet.
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Like communism, neoliberalism is the God that failed. But the zombie doctrine staggers on, and one of the reasons is its anonymity. Or rather, a cluster of anonymities.
The invisible doctrine of the invisible hand is promoted by invisible backers. Slowly, very slowly, we have begun to discover the names of a few of them
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What the history of both Keynesianism and neoliberalism show is that it’s not enough to oppose a broken system. A coherent alternative has to be proposed. For Labour, the Democrats and the wider left, the central task should be to develop an economic Apollo programme, a conscious attempt to design a new system, tailored to the demands of the 21st century.
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