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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:
142.207.145.31/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1172
Fuck Neoliberalism. That’s my blunt message. I could probably end my discussion at this point and it wouldn’t really matter. My position is clear and you likely already get the gist of what I want to say. I have nothing positive to add to the discussion about neoliberalism, and to be perfectly honest, I’m quite sick of having to think about it. I’ve simply had enough. For a time I had considered calling this paper ‘Forget Neoliberalism’ instead, as in some ways that’s exactly what I wanted to do. I’ve been writing on the subject for many years (Springer 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015; Springer et al. 2016) and I came to a point where I just didn’t want to commit any more energy to this endeavor for fear that continuing to work around this idea was functioning to perpetuate its hold. On further reflection I also recognize that as a political maneuver it is potentially quite dangerous to simply stick our heads in the sand and collectively ignore a phenomenon that has had such devastating and debilitating effects on our shared world. There is an ongoing power to neoliberalism that is difficult to deny and I’m not convinced that a strategy of ignorance is actually the right approach (Springer 2016a).
We need more honest and brave and truly intellectual scholars like Simon Springer. If you have a problem with his research, then you have a problem with science and true academic inquiry. This article is peer reviewed and the conclusion that neoliberalism sucks can no longer be argued.
142.207.145.31/index.php/acme/article/view/1342/1172
Fuck Neoliberalism. That’s my blunt message. I could probably end my discussion at this point and it wouldn’t really matter. My position is clear and you likely already get the gist of what I want to say. I have nothing positive to add to the discussion about neoliberalism, and to be perfectly honest, I’m quite sick of having to think about it. I’ve simply had enough. For a time I had considered calling this paper ‘Forget Neoliberalism’ instead, as in some ways that’s exactly what I wanted to do. I’ve been writing on the subject for many years (Springer 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015; Springer et al. 2016) and I came to a point where I just didn’t want to commit any more energy to this endeavor for fear that continuing to work around this idea was functioning to perpetuate its hold. On further reflection I also recognize that as a political maneuver it is potentially quite dangerous to simply stick our heads in the sand and collectively ignore a phenomenon that has had such devastating and debilitating effects on our shared world. There is an ongoing power to neoliberalism that is difficult to deny and I’m not convinced that a strategy of ignorance is actually the right approach (Springer 2016a).
We need more honest and brave and truly intellectual scholars like Simon Springer. If you have a problem with his research, then you have a problem with science and true academic inquiry. 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 conceptHarold 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.
"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.............."
"....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
Oh dear, I had wondered whether, having asked about the experiences that led me to my position, Vlad might do likewise and give a few examples of countries he'd been to, shining lights of communism in action, perhaps tell us about a teaching gig he had in Angola, or a family holiday in Cuba. Instead, all too predictably, he bores us with the same tired cliched diatribe as usual.vladimir wrote:Well, you're from a shamelessly capitalist country, a country so capitalist it whitewashes selling arms to the Middle East's biggest/worst nut jobs (no, not those guys, I'm talking Saudi Arabia) so they can oppress their own people and slaughter other nations.
Every school boy knows how well the dabbling ended for them. As for the present, why do you think those countries continue to profess communism, but no longer practice it.vladimir wrote: Yet you're here, in a country with a history of dabbling in communism and with strong ties to other countries which profess communism.
I found the place by complete chance and liked it. Not sure what it has to do with capitalism.vladimir wrote:
So if Blighty is so wonderful, why are ya here?
Legitimate question, methinks...
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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The gig in Angola wasn't exactly teaching. However, I grant you, there were lessons learned.
You regale us with visions of happiness in western capitalist countries, but choose not to live in your own one, instead living in an Asian emerging economy with strong ties to communist countries, which you hate so much.
I think that's the point. You know that, but you had to deflect.
You're a staunch conservative and supporter of the Tories, yet you choose not to live in the UK.
Come on, go home and Rule Britannia! Put ya money where your mouth is.
Hey, but the money here is way better than home, right?
Maybe Cambodia should give the UK govt some advice, LOL.
You regale us with visions of happiness in western capitalist countries, but choose not to live in your own one, instead living in an Asian emerging economy with strong ties to communist countries, which you hate so much.
I think that's the point. You know that, but you had to deflect.
You're a staunch conservative and supporter of the Tories, yet you choose not to live in the UK.
Come on, go home and Rule Britannia! Put ya money where your mouth is.
Hey, but the money here is way better than home, right?
Maybe Cambodia should give the UK govt some advice, LOL.
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Vladimir, I don't understand why you have a picture of Putin as your avatar because Putin supported the privatization of much of Russia's resources and industries. Putin has always been a supporter of free enterprise in Russia. Putin did admittedly target a number of oligarchs because they had acquired much of Russia's wealth through corrupt means.
I don't plan on reading his other works. I posted the last link because the author is a Cambodia scholar and because he published his "critique" of neoliberalism in a peer reviewed journal even though his article is filled with profanity and is devoid of arguments and reason. I would be embarrassed to write what he wrote on K440. I really do hate some of these left wing extremists who are now powerful in academia in the United States and one reason I oppose socialism is because I do not want these people to have any more power than they already do.Meo Den wrote: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
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I think you answered your own question, but I have many reasons.Harold wrote:Vladimir, I don't understand why you have a picture of Putin as your avatar because Putin supported the privatization of much of Russia's resources and industries. Putin has always been a supporter of free enterprise in Russia. Putin did admittedly target a number of oligarchs because they had acquired much of Russia's wealth through corrupt means.
You'd prefer more of this kind of leper?:Harold wrote:one reason I oppose socialism is because I do not want these people to have any more power than they already do.
https://www.rt.com/usa/419986-centcom-v ... an-russia/
That's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Look at the turds we have with the present system. I think you and others are assuming I want total socialism or communism. That's BS spread by morons who can't read or trailer trash who try to discredit me. It's a bit like the anti-Semite slur when I complain about the IDF shooting defenceless women/ children or prisoners.
I'm a social democrat if you want to label me, I suppose, and I also believe that capitalism has to be regulated. Any idiot who has lived through the currency manipulations, the economic thuggery, sub-prime scandals and the bank bailouts can see that, but it seems some trailer trash don't want to.
Until they get affected.
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I'm sure the weather, food, people, wife and kids, ease of regional travel, beaches, fun of living abroad, and the fact that he is running a private business here have nothing to do with why Slavedog chooses to stay.vladimir wrote:The gig in Angola wasn't exactly teaching. However, I grant you, there were lessons learned.
You regale us with visions of happiness in western capitalist countries, but choose not to live in your own one, instead living in an Asian emerging economy with strong ties to communist countries, which you hate so much.
I think that's the point. You know that, but you had to deflect.
You're a staunch conservative and supporter of the Tories, yet you choose not to live in the UK.
Come on, go home and Rule Britannia! Put ya money where your mouth is.
Hey, but the money here is way better than home, right?
Maybe Cambodia should give the UK govt some advice, LOL.
No matter what your politics are, you're not going to be hanging out under palm trees sipping rum out of a coconut on the beaches of the UK anytime soon.
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I miss oak trees.
But other than the palm trees, there is nothing on that last that you can not do in the UK
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But other than the palm trees, there is nothing on that last that you can not do in the UK
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You certainly can't jump on a $30 one-hour flight to Bangkok from London, that's for sure.Playboy wrote:I miss oak trees.
But other than the palm trees, there is nothing on that last that you can not do in the UK
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No you can’t. You can only catch $30 one-hour flights (or trains) to boring, bland places such as Paris, Amsterdam and Dublin.Miguelito wrote:You certainly can't jump on a $30 one-hour flight to Bangkok from London, that's for sure.Playboy wrote:I miss oak trees.
But other than the palm trees, there is nothing on that last that you can not do in the UK
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$30 flights to Bangkok? I'm just about to pay $359 return for one adult and one child.Miguelito wrote:You certainly can't jump on a $30 one-hour flight to Bangkok from London, that's for sure.Playboy wrote:I miss oak trees.
But other than the palm trees, there is nothing on that last that you can not do in the UK
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TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
Don't really get what you are driving at with most of this.vladimir wrote:
You regale us with visions of happiness in western capitalist countries, but choose not to live in your own one, instead living in an Asian emerging economy with strong ties to communist countries, which you hate so much.
I think that's the point. You know that, but you had to deflect.
You're a staunch conservative and supporter of the Tories, yet you choose not to live in the UK.
Come on, go home and Rule Britannia! Put ya money where your mouth is.
Hey, but the money here is way better than home, right?
Maybe Cambodia should give the UK govt some advice, LOL.
I don't hate communism or anything else, just seen enough of it to know it doesn't work in practice, regardless of how good it looks on paper.
There's very little communist about about Cambodia or the countries it has ties with. The only thing that's communist about it / them is a lack of democracy and opposition parties. One of the great things about living here is watching people embrace capitalism and seeing their lives improve massively as a result of it.
No idea what all the Rule Britannia, put your money where your mouth is stuff is all about. I like it here.
As for Cambodia advising the British government, you could well be on to something there, especially with regard to Brexit. We need an HE in there to tell the Merkels and Tusks of this world where to stick their failing EU project.
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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Well if you catch a deal it’s less, but I guess $40 without a deal here:slavedog wrote:$30 flights to Bangkok? I'm just about to pay $359 return for one adult and one child.Miguelito wrote:You certainly can't jump on a $30 one-hour flight to Bangkok from London, that's for sure.Playboy wrote:I miss oak trees.
But other than the palm trees, there is nothing on that last that you can not do in the UK
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I can't read that, which airline is it?Miguelito wrote:Well if you catch a deal it’s less, but I guess $40 without a deal here:slavedog wrote:$30 flights to Bangkok? I'm just about to pay $359 return for one adult and one child.Miguelito wrote:You certainly can't jump on a $30 one-hour flight to Bangkok from London, that's for sure.Playboy wrote:I miss oak trees.
But other than the palm trees, there is nothing on that last that you can not do in the UK
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TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.