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Autocracy is the American word for socialism.

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

One lesson is that it’s [Coronavirus] another colossal failure of the neoliberal version of capitalism. Massive failure…If we don’t learn that lesson it’s going to recur worse next time.

The ugly and de-facto neo-colonial international system no longer works, while the multipolar world order is, on the contrary, becoming stronger. This is an inevitable process.

Well, we have been through a 40-year, 45-year assault on the general population within the framework of what’s called neoliberalism. And it’s had a very serious impact.

This operation also means the beginning of a radical breakdown of the US-style world order. This is the beginning of the transition from liberal-globalist US egocentrism to a truly multipolar world…

Their hegemony [globalist elites] spells stagnation for the entire world and for all of civilization, and it includes bigotry, cancel culture, and neoliberal totalitarianism.

China is completely different, because, unlike the West, China treats money and credit as a public utility, not as a private monopoly.

There are two potential dangers in the war in Syria today. One is Western neoliberalism led by the United States, and the other is extremism. They are actually the same thing. The U.S. is behind all the oil wells controlled by the terrorists. The global superpower is colluding with terrorists.

The Democratic Party is in deep trouble. The neoliberal vision of brother [Joe] Biden, which, in his own individual case, is predicated on crimes against humanity…

The sad thing is that neither the neo-Fascists nor the neoliberals have too much deep love of poor and working people across race, gender, and nation, and very few of them are committed to democratic processes all the way down.

The more your ideology prohibits you from seeing capitalism as the problem, the more frantic you will be to seek out other explanations for why the world keeps getting more unjust and tyrannical.

Brother Glenn [Greenwald] has the same hatred of the hypocrisy of the neoliberal élites that Tucker [Carlson] has, and I have that hatred, too.

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that can provide alternative points of view, has been so powerful and so normalized.

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

At the same time, you see in those studies, you see the emergence of various movements among black youth that are really challenging the ideology of neoliberalism since the 1980s.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn’t been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create market-driven subjects, modes of consciousness, and ways of understanding the world that promote accommodation, quietism and passivity.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it’s violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

Under neoliberalism everyone has to negotiate their fate alone, bearing full responsibility for problems that are often not of their own doing. The implications politically, economically and socially for young people are disastrous and are contributing to the emergence of a generation of young people who will occupy a space of social abandonment and terminal exclusion.

Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood as flexible labor. This has really come to be the dominant form for about the last 20 years.

Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional changes, especially regarding wage-setting and other aspects of the employment relationship, would be essential if full employment was to be sustained.

Neoliberalism, arguably, sets the course for this kind for this kind of neo-extremism, this right-wing extremism that we are facing. The only way we solve that crisis, the rise of the right-wing extreme, is by truly progressive policies that address this crisis of economic security. That will not come from the lesser evil.

Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Neoliberalism isn’t an economic program – it’s a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

The most vocal cheerleaders for this censorship are the liberal class.