The invisible philosophy that’s destroying the world
This phenomenon spreading like a virus, like contagion, that asks us to stop considering our people and community, and only think of value; value that can be rendered in words and numbers, can be exchanged with a signature. It asks us not to think of people but property. But what of the people?
Caleb Azumah Nelson • Small Worlds
Today’s crisis of capitalism is especially severe. Four decades of neoliberalism have driven down wages, weakened labor rights, ravaged the environment, and usurped the energies available to sustain families and communities—all while spreading the tentacles of finance across the social fabric.
Tithi Bhattacharya • Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
What the Mexico case demonstrated, however, was a key difference between liberal and neoliberal practice: under the former, lenders take the losses that arise from bad investment decisions, while under the latter the borrowers are forced by state and international powers to take on board the cost of debt repayment no matter what the consequences fo
... See moreDavid Harvey • A Brief History of Neoliberalism
In the past decade, liberalism has taken a beating from both sides of the political spectrum. Its critics to the left view its measured gradualism as incommensurate to the present’s multiple emergencies: climate change, inequality, the rise of an ethno-nationalist right. Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has ... See more
libéralisme nous laisse seuls et dispersés, à la dérive dans des mégapoles, sans valeurs communes, ne connaissant même pas le nom des étrangers au milieu desquels nous vivons. Mais peu nombreux sont ceux qui affirment cette opinion négative et provocatrice. Alaster MacIntyre et Allan Bloom affirment tous deux que le relativisme moral a laissé l’Occ
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