Interesting and informative article. One thing, which is never said and hardly thinkable by most, is that 'neo-liberal' is a false word.
Created by rightwing conservatives to divert blame from themselves and their monopolistic expansionist business-first ideology, it has worked to perfection. It confuses liberalism, human rights, with a hierarchical and materialist dogma ... making liberals take the blame and leftists to attack liberal identification.
Sure, a little thinking about it would correct the error: 'new' liberalism that promotes economic war is hardly an idea with human rights as its animating idea ... but a little thinking is too much when there's some hippies to bash. So we're caught by our own tribal warfare; at least the Aborigines likely knew which direction to throw their spear.
Nearly there, but not quite...Chewing a bit more than you can digest...Rousseau was not an idealist and...never mentioned "le bon sauvage". You can find that in Montaigne, Montesquieu and Voltaire and in Defoe's robinsonades in 1884, and before in the accounts of the conquistadores, the spearheads of proto-capitalism and its successive avatars under various labels, incarnating the Macht. After the eras of Feudalism and the "Democratic" esclavagist societies. Engels wrote a very interesting book in the very same 1884, a century before 1984, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" which might give a deeper perspective to your anthropological references. The conflation of Capitalism and Communism with Fascism has of course been one of the most successful piece of propaganda coming out the Atlantist sphere. Capitalism is a cancer which has been metastasing for half a millennium. You live in a country which is a fully paid member, at extravagant cost to yourselves, of the Auckus-Pocus alliance, read vassal to the hegemon, under the guise of a so-called "left" government, as we are also in Europe, the uniparty, which is the agglomeration of left and right into the"extreme" center. Another inversion/perversion of language. Will you succumb to the ultimate transformational metastasis, the one killing the host? The cure is real socialism, as has happened in China & Vietnam, your neighbours and not your enemies, except in the inflamed minds of the American deep state whose only business is the Business of War, the engine of "profits", for the happy few.
Sadly, the followers of Marx, like yourself, are nearly always blind to why "Capitalism" was seen correctly as a Revolutionary Force by the Feudal lords of its day.
Most garden-variety self-proclaimed "Communists" see the ethos of "Capitalism" as merely a continuation of Feudalism (Interestingly, Marx himself did not fall into this error, but then he also despaired at the stupidity of his supposed followers "Marxists"), but nothing could be further from the truth.
At Capitalism's core is the central Liberal tenet: "You Own Yourself'.
This change, which is now so embedded as to be invisible to most Westerners, ended direct slavery, ended Feudalism, and damned near ended wage-slavery to boot, only failing in that revolutionary aim by a determined centuries-long rear-guard fight by the existing wealthy and powerful, and by the creation of the Class-war "Stock Market".
The large majority of so-called Marxists simply cannot imagine a world without wage-slavery, without replacing it with State-slavery or Party-slavery.
They see actual worker-ownership as "Petite-bourgeois counter-revolutionaryism" - in other words, THEY want all the power and control.
Which is to be expected if Niall's biochemical model is understood, although the self-congratulatory back-patting of Leftists blinds them to this reality.
As a soft-left anarchist, this has been as plain as day to me since my mid teens and awakening to political debate.
Private worker-ownership IS Capitalism at its very core.
It is what Adam Smith fought for with every one of his liberal breaths.
To remove the scourge of rentierism, aka Feudalism, and not to ignore the role of the State in enabling vast concentrations of wealth and power, in a word: Domination.
Sadly, most "Marxists" are so devout, they would rather chew broken glass than read anyone except their chosen Prophet.
Interesting and informative article. One thing, which is never said and hardly thinkable by most, is that 'neo-liberal' is a false word.
Created by rightwing conservatives to divert blame from themselves and their monopolistic expansionist business-first ideology, it has worked to perfection. It confuses liberalism, human rights, with a hierarchical and materialist dogma ... making liberals take the blame and leftists to attack liberal identification.
Sure, a little thinking about it would correct the error: 'new' liberalism that promotes economic war is hardly an idea with human rights as its animating idea ... but a little thinking is too much when there's some hippies to bash. So we're caught by our own tribal warfare; at least the Aborigines likely knew which direction to throw their spear.
Nearly there, but not quite...Chewing a bit more than you can digest...Rousseau was not an idealist and...never mentioned "le bon sauvage". You can find that in Montaigne, Montesquieu and Voltaire and in Defoe's robinsonades in 1884, and before in the accounts of the conquistadores, the spearheads of proto-capitalism and its successive avatars under various labels, incarnating the Macht. After the eras of Feudalism and the "Democratic" esclavagist societies. Engels wrote a very interesting book in the very same 1884, a century before 1984, "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" which might give a deeper perspective to your anthropological references. The conflation of Capitalism and Communism with Fascism has of course been one of the most successful piece of propaganda coming out the Atlantist sphere. Capitalism is a cancer which has been metastasing for half a millennium. You live in a country which is a fully paid member, at extravagant cost to yourselves, of the Auckus-Pocus alliance, read vassal to the hegemon, under the guise of a so-called "left" government, as we are also in Europe, the uniparty, which is the agglomeration of left and right into the"extreme" center. Another inversion/perversion of language. Will you succumb to the ultimate transformational metastasis, the one killing the host? The cure is real socialism, as has happened in China & Vietnam, your neighbours and not your enemies, except in the inflamed minds of the American deep state whose only business is the Business of War, the engine of "profits", for the happy few.
Sadly, the followers of Marx, like yourself, are nearly always blind to why "Capitalism" was seen correctly as a Revolutionary Force by the Feudal lords of its day.
Most garden-variety self-proclaimed "Communists" see the ethos of "Capitalism" as merely a continuation of Feudalism (Interestingly, Marx himself did not fall into this error, but then he also despaired at the stupidity of his supposed followers "Marxists"), but nothing could be further from the truth.
At Capitalism's core is the central Liberal tenet: "You Own Yourself'.
This change, which is now so embedded as to be invisible to most Westerners, ended direct slavery, ended Feudalism, and damned near ended wage-slavery to boot, only failing in that revolutionary aim by a determined centuries-long rear-guard fight by the existing wealthy and powerful, and by the creation of the Class-war "Stock Market".
The large majority of so-called Marxists simply cannot imagine a world without wage-slavery, without replacing it with State-slavery or Party-slavery.
They see actual worker-ownership as "Petite-bourgeois counter-revolutionaryism" - in other words, THEY want all the power and control.
Which is to be expected if Niall's biochemical model is understood, although the self-congratulatory back-patting of Leftists blinds them to this reality.
As a soft-left anarchist, this has been as plain as day to me since my mid teens and awakening to political debate.
Private worker-ownership IS Capitalism at its very core.
It is what Adam Smith fought for with every one of his liberal breaths.
To remove the scourge of rentierism, aka Feudalism, and not to ignore the role of the State in enabling vast concentrations of wealth and power, in a word: Domination.
Sadly, most "Marxists" are so devout, they would rather chew broken glass than read anyone except their chosen Prophet.