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#neoliberalism

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Estelle Platini

"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."

It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."

"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."

braveneweurope.com/aurelien-th

Brave New Europe · Aurelien - The End? - Brave New EuropeThere must be some way out of here … surely? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack A scene from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame The original idea behind these essays when I started them three years ago, was that [...]
#civilService#statehood#bureaucracy
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Hamish Campbell

The Seagull Knows: Notes on a Constipated Discipline

The opening moment of the workshop on Methodological Strategies for Real-Life Theorising was unintentionally profound. A story of a seagull crieing above the glass façade of the Blavatnik School of Government. A temple to the #deathcult that shaped our lives for the last 40 years of #neoliberal change and shaping. In hindsight, that seagull metaphor may have been the wisest participant at the event.The sessions that followed offered a painful reminder of just how entrenched and constipated […]

hamishcampbell.com/the-seagull

#blocking#climatechaos#deathcult
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸

How to Turn the Anti-Trump Resistance Into a Movement

All these #protests, marches, emails, petitions, and social media posts will naturally be somewhat anarchic and disarrayed, but if they don’t build toward power, we won’t have much impact.

from #CommonDreams

Christopher D. Cook
Apr 17, 2025
Common Dreams

"If the emergent movements can find ways to solidify, coalesce, and build power, they should do it outside of the #DemocraticParty, even while allying with it. Why? Because the #Democratic establishment, while vastly better than #Trump and #MAGA #Republicans for humans and the planet, are profoundly compromised and show no signs of transcending their decades-long immersion in corporate #neoliberalism."

commondreams.org/opinion/anti-

#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

Common Dreams · How to Turn the Anti-Trump Resistance Into a Movement | Common DreamsAll these protests, marches, emails, petitions, and social media posts will naturally be somewhat anarchic and disarrayed, but if they don’t build toward power, we won’t have much impact.
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witchescauldron

hamishcampbell.com

This site is both a personal journal and a platform for wider conversations. It reflects years of deep engagement with grassroots media, #4opens tech, and the ongoing mess created by #neoliberalism and consumer culture.

It’s a woven tapestry of reflections, critiques, and experiments—rooted in activism, media, and the social impact of technology. It’s not polished, and it’s not meant to be. Like the world it reflects, it’s messy, alive, and full of contradictions.

What you take from it is up to you. What are your intersections of tech, society, and activism? What thoughts do you want to compost?

hamishcampbell.comHamish Campbell – An #openweb organic intellectual,technologist and part of the #OMN
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Michelle

I have spent a lot of time unpacking neoliberal discourses in micro finance (2nd MA) and food production & procurement (PhD).

It is amazing how persistent these discourses are, STILL, in my own head. Being "productive" & valuing participation in the capitalist economy. I really struggle with non productive activities.

Minecraft has become a practice of embracing non productivity. One block at a time, resisting capitalist values.

#Minecraft#Neoliberalism#FuckCapitalism
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Desperate for a new intellectual underpinning, neoliberals and libertarians sought refuge in the work of economist Friedrich Hayek, who famously argued in his 1944 polemic The Road to Serfdom that government intervention in markets is antithetical to individual freedom. But Murray, Rothbard, Hoppe, and others fatally twisted Hayek’s message, claims Slobodian, and took it so far as to argue that only Western countries are intellectually and culturally primed for capitalism.

The politics of this cohort, which he dubs the “new fusionists,” was rooted in “three hards,” argues Slobodian: “Hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money.” They forged sordid alliances with biologists, evolutionary psychologists, and ethnonationalists, spouting pseudoscience about the link between race and IQ, a topic famously repopularized in the 1994 best-seller The Bell Curve, coauthored by Murray and psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein. They railed against lax immigration policies on the premise that they led to cultural decay. But perhaps most strangely, they ballyhooed the value of gold as a backstop against a looming economic cataclysm caused by incompetency in Washington. (Talk about apropos.)

In an interview with Vanity Fair, which has been edited for length and clarity, Slobodian analyzes Donald Trump’s radical agenda through this new prism of neoliberalism. He also unpacks the distressing parallels between goldbugs and crypto bros, and details why the tech set has suddenly taken up with the MAGA right. Silicon Valley’s “willingness to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Donald Trump,” he says, is indicative “of the embrace of an ideology that pretty frankly ranks human capacity along the spectrum of intelligence and IQ.”"

vanityfair.com/news/story/dona

Vanity Fair · Donald Trump, Silicon Valley, and the Neoliberal Roots of an Unlikely AllianceBy Jon Skolnik
#Neoliberalism#Capitalism#USA
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Hamish Campbell

Messy language feeds back into our culture

The #blocking of current action, the constant stalls, confusion, and fragmentation, has a lot to do with the mess our language makes. And the deeper issue is how this messy language feeds back into our culture, which then loops back to make the language even murkier. It’s a feedback loop that clouds meaning, erodes trust, and paralyses collective action. The last 40 years of postmodernism and neo-liberalism have made this worse. #Postmodernism chipped away at the idea of shared reality, […]

hamishcampbell.com/messy-langu

hamishcampbell.comMessy language feeds back into our culture – Hamish Campbell
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#blocking#deathcult#dotcons
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DJM (freelance for hire)

Mutant Capitalism
How the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.

Excerpt adapted from Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian

hnn.us/article/mutant-capitali

History News Network · Mutant CapitalismHow the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.
#Capitalism#NeoLiberalism#AltRight
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DJM (freelance for hire)

Beyond national liberation

A new book issues both an indictment of South Africa’s failed transition and a call to rebuild the left through climate justice, solidarity economies, and radical humanism.

africasacountry.com/2025/04/be

"The decline was the outcome of a class project overseen by the ANC, which he terms an 'Afro-neoliberal mode of transformation.'"

africasacountry.comBeyond national liberationA new book issues both an indictment of South Africa’s failed transition and a call to rebuild the left through climate justice, solidarity economies, and radical humanism.
#SouthAfrica#Africa#NeoLiberalism
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Caro S.

@RichardJMurphy explains here that Labour 's Rachel Reeves could save unnecessary interest payments of £20 billion per year, which makes Labour's choice to cut funding for the elderly and disabled people even more blatantly a choice for necropolitics, IMO.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=XITKNios

More on the necropolitical aspect: Work or Die: Labour's War on Disabled People, by John the Duncan
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk9WgnIz

YouTubeWhy won’t Rachel Reeves could cut the interest paid by the government to the UK’s commercial banks?By Richard J Murphy
#capitalism#neoliberalism#RachelReeves
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Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke

@minimalparts This is central to our present day political issues. AI is the fastest rising factor of #technofascism. Refusing to look at AI if you are not a specialist is like asking us to simply renounce democracy, because none of us is a specialist of everything. We need to worry about it, all of us. It's not really a language? Well, too bad. But it's still working quite well for the digital #neoliberalism launched by the #siliconvalley #techbros who are now dominating the 1st world economy.

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