Harold wrote:Brilliant tenured professor and modern Cambodian studies scholar makes a devastating and thorough criticism of the philosophy of capitalism and the neoliberal order in peer reviewed article:
This article is peer reviewed and the conclusion that neoliberalism sucks can no longer be argued.
Have you read it! So he comes to the conclusion that "neoliberalism sucks" From the following argument! I think he needs to argue his case, rather than just lambasting the concept
"And so I settled on ‘Fuck Neoliberalism’ because I think it conveys most of what I actually want to say. The argument I want to make is slightly more nuanced than that, which had me thinking more about the term ‘fuck’ than I probably have at any other time in my life............"
"The first sense is perhaps the most obvious. By saying ‘fuck neoliberalism’ we can express our rage against the neoliberal machine. It is an indication of our anger, our desire to shout our resentment, to spew venom back in the face of the noxious malice that has been shown to all of us............."
"There is nothing about neoliberalism that is deserving of our respect, and so in concert with a prefigurative politics of creation,
my message is quite simply ‘fuck it’. Fuck the hold that it has on our political imaginations. Fuck the violence it engenders. Fuck the inequality it extols as a virtue. Fuck the way it has ravaged the environment. Fuck the endless cycle of accumulation and the cult of growth. Fuck the Mont Pelerin society and all the think tanks that continue to prop it up and promote it. Fuck Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman for saddling us with their ideas. Fuck the Thatchers, the Reagans, and all the cowardly, self-interested politicians who seek only to scratch the back of avarice.............."
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Fuck the ever-intensifying move towards metrics and the failure to appreciate that not everything that counts can be counted.
Fuck the desire for profit over the needs of community. Fuck absolutely everything neoliberalism stands for, and fuck the Trojan horse that it rode in on!..........."
"Ultimately neoliberalism is a particularly foul idea that comes with a whole host of vulgar outcomes and crass assumptions. In response, it deserves to be met with equally offensive language and action. Our community, our cooperation, and our care for one another are all loathsome to neoliberalism. It hates that which we celebrate. So
when we say ‘fuck neoliberalism’ let it mean more that just words, let it be an enactment of our commitment to each other.
http://142.207.145.31/index.php/acme/article/view/1342......"
However if you want a better argued discourse on neoliberalism read his article:
Violent Neoliberalism: Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodia
https://www.academia.edu/7448468/Violen ... n_Cambodia