I'm old and jaded. I sure hate to see the enthusiasm of young people stifled instead of encouraged.

[dr60omg]

78. I am not trying to be disrespectful but your definition of neoliberalism is incorrect

There is a specific definition of neoliberalism and before you go hoping to squash opposition like a bug perhaps it would help if you understood the term. Here is the good old fashioned Encyclopedia Britannica's definition http://www.britannica.com/topic/neoliberalism
But I will use a transcript from Democracy now to demonstrate how it is put into action http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/6/naomi_klein I am also going to provide you a link to her book which is not filled with dense or opaque language that honestly everyone should read entitled the Shock Doctrine which luckily is now available for free online in pdf form http://www.infoshop.org/amp/NaomiKlein-TheShockDoctrine.pdf ... The movie made from it is available on you tube

Her latest book this changes everything frames neoliberalism within the environment .... There are other authors for example Henry Giroux who have written extensively on the topic:http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26885-henry-giroux-on-the-rise-of-neoliberalism you can go on his own website where he has put up some of his articles which also is helpful.


Having said that neoliberalism consigns everything and throws literally everybody or every BODY into the market place to be bought sold and used as a commodity. In other words subjects become objects and objects are assigned value. We have seen that happen to public education in the US, the private prison industry (remember that in order to be profitable the private prisons must be filled), the examples go on and on ... It is not something that people ought see as a personal critique against them but as an institutional critique if you are taking it personally it is a function of hegemony (I think that word is used to often so I will not use it again here).

It may be a function of education or a knowledge of the forces that shape the society in which we exist in now. It is not a term that is just thrown around it has very specific meaning.