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Liberal og liberalisme er mye brukte ord. Men neo-liberalisme
er i ferd med å snike seg inn under falsk flagg, på samme vis som Nasjonalsosialismen i sin tid gled på plass før den avslørte sitt egentlige prosjekt.
Neo-liberalisme høres godt ut - god, gammeldags liberalisme, men fornyet. "Ny og forbedret", det har vi lært av noen tiårs markedspåvirkning.
Hva er neo-liberalisme? Det nytter ikke å gå rett til oppslagsverkene. Man kan lese neo-liberalistiske manifest, for å komme nærmere svaret. Tony Blair og Gerhard Schröder utga et manifest de samarbeidet om - Blair med utgangspunkt i New Labour (New & Improved), og Schröder utfra sin Die Neue Mitte (også Ny & Forbedret, har man sett!)
Hva snakker vi om?
Her har Joanne Barkan annotert Blairs og Schröders fellesmanifest The Third Way/Die Neue Mitte:
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/pdfs/Barkan-ThirdWay.pdf
Det er mye å lese. La oss ta kortversjonen med en gang.
Neo-liberalisme er:
CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing government's role. Of course, they don't oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business.
DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminish profits, including protecting the environment and safety on the job.
PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. Although usually done in the name of greater efficiency, which is often needed, privatization has mainly had the effect of concentrating wealth even more in a few hands and making the public pay even more for its needs.
ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF "THE PUBLIC GOOD" or "COMMUNITY" and replacing it with "individual responsibility." Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves -- then blaming them, if they fail, as "lazy."
Around the world, neo-liberalism has been imposed by powerful financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. It is raging all over Latin America. The first clear example of neo-liberalism at work came in Chile (with thanks to University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman), after the CIA-supported coup against the popularly elected Allende regime in 1973. Other countries followed, with some of the worst effects in Mexico where wages declined 40 to 50% in the first year of NAFTA while the cost of living rose by 80%. Over 20,000 small and medium businesses have failed and more than 1,000 state-owned enterprises have been privatized in Mexico. As one scholar said, "Neo-liberalism means the neo-colonization of Latin America."
Det er en total tilbakevisning av grunnsetningene i den sosialdemokratiske bevegelsen, og en kapitulasjon for markedets diktat. Ordet sosialdemokratisk burde egentlig leses som "solidaritetsdemokratisk" - og med neo-liberalismen kastes all solidaritet overbord.
Paul Treanor har en langt mer brutal analyse av The Third "Way/Die Neue Mitte. Til tider nærmest rabiat, men fylt med sannhet, så får man være tålmodig med at han innimellom ikke skjuler sin forakt:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/drittemitte.html
Neo-liberalisme, et falskt flagg ord, som skjuler en samfunnsomveltning der harde markedsvurderinger skal inn på alle områder. Og merkelig nok er tidligere sosialdemokrater de ivrigste til å promovere tanken.
er i ferd med å snike seg inn under falsk flagg, på samme vis som Nasjonalsosialismen i sin tid gled på plass før den avslørte sitt egentlige prosjekt.Neo-liberalisme høres godt ut - god, gammeldags liberalisme, men fornyet. "Ny og forbedret", det har vi lært av noen tiårs markedspåvirkning.
Hva er neo-liberalisme? Det nytter ikke å gå rett til oppslagsverkene. Man kan lese neo-liberalistiske manifest, for å komme nærmere svaret. Tony Blair og Gerhard Schröder utga et manifest de samarbeidet om - Blair med utgangspunkt i New Labour (New & Improved), og Schröder utfra sin Die Neue Mitte (også Ny & Forbedret, har man sett!)
Hva snakker vi om?
Her har Joanne Barkan annotert Blairs og Schröders fellesmanifest The Third Way/Die Neue Mitte:
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/pdfs/Barkan-ThirdWay.pdf
Det er mye å lese. La oss ta kortversjonen med en gang.
Neo-liberalisme er:
THE RULE OF THE MARKET. Liberating "free" enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers' rights that had been won over many years of struggle. No more price controls. All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. To convince us this is good for us, they say "an unregulated market is the best way to increase economic growth, which will ultimately benefit everyone." It's like Reagan's "supply-side" and "trickle-down" economics -- but somehow the wealth didn't trickle down very much.
CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing government's role. Of course, they don't oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business.
DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminish profits, including protecting the environment and safety on the job.
PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. Although usually done in the name of greater efficiency, which is often needed, privatization has mainly had the effect of concentrating wealth even more in a few hands and making the public pay even more for its needs.
ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF "THE PUBLIC GOOD" or "COMMUNITY" and replacing it with "individual responsibility." Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves -- then blaming them, if they fail, as "lazy."
Around the world, neo-liberalism has been imposed by powerful financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. It is raging all over Latin America. The first clear example of neo-liberalism at work came in Chile (with thanks to University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman), after the CIA-supported coup against the popularly elected Allende regime in 1973. Other countries followed, with some of the worst effects in Mexico where wages declined 40 to 50% in the first year of NAFTA while the cost of living rose by 80%. Over 20,000 small and medium businesses have failed and more than 1,000 state-owned enterprises have been privatized in Mexico. As one scholar said, "Neo-liberalism means the neo-colonization of Latin America."
Det er en total tilbakevisning av grunnsetningene i den sosialdemokratiske bevegelsen, og en kapitulasjon for markedets diktat. Ordet sosialdemokratisk burde egentlig leses som "solidaritetsdemokratisk" - og med neo-liberalismen kastes all solidaritet overbord.
Paul Treanor har en langt mer brutal analyse av The Third "Way/Die Neue Mitte. Til tider nærmest rabiat, men fylt med sannhet, så får man være tålmodig med at han innimellom ikke skjuler sin forakt:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/drittemitte.html
Neo-liberalisme, et falskt flagg ord, som skjuler en samfunnsomveltning der harde markedsvurderinger skal inn på alle områder. Og merkelig nok er tidligere sosialdemokrater de ivrigste til å promovere tanken.
