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In reply to the discussion: Everyone Hates Neoliberals, So We Talked to Some [View all]socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Were they QUITE as blatant about it as Ryan? Nope, but the place they wanted to go with the economy was the same, global corporate power and "free" competition because the "market knows best". Obama himself said he was a 1980s moderate Republican and expressed his admiration for Reagan. And Bill Clinton said that "big government was dead". Who does Clinton and Obama feel is best to make investment decisions? The investors or society at large? Those are neo-liberal positions.
One thing that Marxists and Friedmanites agree on is that capitalism is set up to work ONLY for capitalists. For Marxists it's just a fact, albeit a fact that supports the need for a change in the way society is organized. For the neo-liberals, it's an idea that will, after much disruption, benefit everybody. Or at least that's the way they sell it to the rest of us. It's only the Keynesians that think that capitalism is set up to benefit society as a whole. It's not, it never was, and it never will be. And neo-liberalism IS capitalism in it's purest form.
Capitalism can't AFFORD Keynesianism any more. Neo-liberals and Marxists know this. It's only the Keynesians that are fooling themselves.