Globalization: The Neoliberal Project for World Conquest

[Hannah Bell]

In The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama asserted that the passing of Marxism signaled the “end point of mankind’s ideological evolution,” that although many societies had embraced liberal democracy and free-market capitalism to markedly varying degrees, and some not at all, no ideological alternative to these now existed...

If only one valid ideology remains, politics becomes largely irrelevant, other than in the context of freeing the economy of governmental constraints. The overarching political debate becomes one of making the free market perfectly free: privatization of government assets and functions, and deregulation of private enterprises...

The purpose of ideology is to provide a simplified and normative description of the world. It both represents and distorts reality in some preferential way in order to empower a certain group. Neoliberalism is the ideology of the capitalist. It thus serves to enshrine capitalism and to legitimate the position of the capitalist in our society. It is the ideology of the powerful, by the powerful, for the powerful...

Edited to conform to DU's fairuse policy for copyrighted material - Lithos, DU Moderator

And there is a corporately produced and marketed pharmacopoeia to help us all cope with the constant stress of competition from every quarter and the inevitable feelings of insecurity, inadequacy, and depression. The sardonic twist that Aldous Huxley gave to Shakespeare’s words in the 1930s could hardly be more apt at the dawn of the 21st century:

“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in it!”


http://pweb.jps.net/~gangale/opsa/ir/Gobblization.htm

[Ysabel]

1. k and r...

- it really is very depressing...

[nebenaube]

2. dude dropped too much acid... n/t

[maddezmom]

3. Hannah Bell

Please be aware that DU copyright rules require that excerpts of copyrighted material be limited to four paragraphs. :)

[Hannah Bell]

4. well, delete it then because it's too late to edit.

i broke up the paragraphs in the original because they were too long to read easily.

[blindpig]

5. I think we can dump that label

and just call them capitalist swine. Is there and effective difference between them and neo-cons? For that matter, if they are to acquiesce to this horrid shit after the prescribed period of whining, liberals too?