Tegenlicht: De Chicago Sessies

Milton Friedman heeft gefaald. Maar hoe nu verder?

Zie de uitzending van Tegenlicht:

De Chicago sessies: de kredietcrisis, markt en moraal
Martha Nussbaum met studenten van de University of Chicago op zoek naar recht en rechtvaardigheid

The Shock Doctrine

Eerder hier geplaatst

Of: Gebruik een zware, desoriënterende crisis om een mens, of een heel volk jouw wil op te leggen.

Echt, doe dat boek eens lezen! En kijk dan voor de gein alleen al terug naar de Nederlandse geschiedenis van de afgelopen twintig jaar.

The Bush gang's parting gift: a final, frantic looting of public wealth

In the final days of the election many Republicans seem to have given up the fight for power. But don't be fooled: that doesn't mean they are relaxing. If you want to see real Republican elbow grease, check out the energy going into chucking great chunks of the $700bn bail-out out the door. At a recent Senate banking committee hearing, the Republican Bob Corker was fixated on this task, and with a clear deadline in mind: inauguration. "How much of it do you think may be actually spent by January 20 or so?" Corker asked Neel Kashkari, the 35-year-old former banker in charge of the bail-out.

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Naomi Klein: Olympics Are Coming out Party for "McCommunism"

JAY: The fireworks have been bursting at the most expensive opening to an Olympic ceremonies in history. Just what is being celebrated? You've called what's happening in China the communism. What do you mean?

KLEIN: The communism, Stalinism, market Stalinism, authoritarian capitalism, I think this is an incredibly efficient, actually, a scarily efficient way of organizing society that's actually being celebrated here, which is a hybrid of some of the worst elements of authoritarian communism—mass surveillance of the population, total lack of civil liberties, lack of a free press, lack of democratic rights, authoritarian central planning, all harnessed not to advance the goals of social justice, even in name, although there may be some lip service still paid to that, but to advance the goals of global capitalism. So it is Stalinism meets global capitalism. And it works. China is the most successful capitalist economy in the world: 11 percent growth, year after year after year. It is the most successful economy in the world. And that efficiency, that success, is intimately tied, I would argue, to the suppression of democratic rights. It's not successful despite the fact that it's not a democracy, despite the fact that you don't have independent trade unions; it is successful in large part because of that, because workers can't organize independent unions, [coughing] because Beijing, if they want to build a new export processing zone or a new shopping mall or a new Olympic stadium, can just raise whatever they want to raise and build whatever they want to build and displace as many people as they want to displace.

The Real News

China's "communisme" lijkt verdacht veel op de "successen" van de neoliberale globalisering...maar dan nóg ongeremder. Hoe meer economisch succes, hoe minder democratie.

Klinkt als de race to the bottom die ook met Europa in gang is gezet...