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Neoliberalism is an ideology promoted primarily by the super-rich to morally underwrite their excesses and direct ever more wealth into overstuffed pockets. Margaret Thatcher opined that “there is no such thing as society” and the captured British political / media complex has worked for decades to realise this dystopia by destroying the NHS, rolling back the welfare state and undermining democracy.
Neoliberalism is not an attack on nationalism or the military-industrial complex. Arms sales, deep-state surveillance and para-military police forces protect capital assets and drive profits. Neoliberalism promotes wars and domestic repression, but corrodes our collective will towards compassion and solidarity .
The super-rich act as parasites within a civilised society – they do not need representative democracy nor the protections against illness and misfortune that we do. Neoliberalism is a cancer of society, replacing human values with market forces and relentlessly hollowing out the social institutions and moral norms that prevent feudalism.
The 1% imagine that their privileges are all down to them and thus place no value on the environment, Justice or human solidarity – but their hubris incurs a social debt and sooner or later that debt is paid by everyone.
Across the globe we see gathering evidence of a fascist turn. In Gaza we see Israel engaged in genocide, with fulsome western support, Argentina has just elected the Fascistic Javier Milei, the spectre of Donald Tump looms large in the USA, Suella Braverman is manoeuvring for the Tory leadership by deploying dog-whistle racism and Keir Starmer is a genocide enabler.
In the Netherlands the far right is now the largest party, in Ireland a knife attacker was disarmed by a Brazilian deliveroo rider but this led to an anti-immigrant riot and looting anyway.
Neo-nazi militias have been incorporated into the Ukrainian military and Zelenksy wants to create a large new Israel – all part of Joe Biden’s new world order. Hungary is now described as the most right wing nation in Europe and hard right populist Viktor Orbán pants for the return of Donald Trump .
In Turkey nationalism increasingly holds sway and the European Union having draped itself in the flag of Israel is now muttering about having its own army.
Fascism and genocide are the inevitable destinations of a society hollowed out by neoliberalism. Once the populace accepts the bombastic propaganda, despair and dark forces rush in. As people see that their humanity isn’t valued anymore and that there is no community of compassion and kindness to contribute to – they get angry and venal power seekers use refugees and other scapegoats as a path to power.
If you imagine that this authoritarian punishment inflicted on the working classes is bad then wait until the other debts of neoliberalism become due. A gathering global ecocide will lead to starvation and a mass displacement and don’t imagine that it will always happen somewhere else.
The ‘values’ of neoliberalism were always a toxic sham and as traumatised people increasingly internalise them we risk a societal feedback loop that will destroy everything and everyone.
Look out world, take a good look what comes dawn hereYou must learn this lesson fast and learn it wellThis ain’t no upwardly mobile freewayOh no, this is the road, this is the road
...this is the road to hell
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