Every other modern narrative – communism, socialism, even those that were destructive, such as neoliberalism and fascism –
You mean that communism and socialism were not destructive?
Can we get a little perspective please on the “destructiveness of neo-liberalism”?
Even if we assume that everything that is happening now is purely the result of such, we’re losing a year or two’s worth of growth. We’re back to 2006 perhaps in our living standards. Trying to compare that to the decades long stagnation brought about by communism, to the gross poverty of actually existing socialism like Cuba, is simply absurd.
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1 Luis Enrique // Jun 29, 2009 at 10:05 am
I’d wager she blames global poverty on neoliberalism
2 Luis Enrique // Jun 29, 2009 at 10:48 am
here you go Tim:
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3714
3 Serf // Jun 29, 2009 at 11:52 am
Communism was not destructive.
How does she get dressed in the morning with her head shoved so firmly up her Ar*e?
4 Don // Jun 29, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Odd that she also seems to sneer at those who “retreat into private stories of transformation – cosmetic surgery, makeovers of home and person”. Wouldn’t such a retreat actually represent something of a triumph for market dogma and its championing of private, individual choices?
5 Martin // Jun 29, 2009 at 8:45 pm
The destructiveness of neoliberalism?
Has it ever been constructive?
6 Revelation and the grand narrative « bella gerens // Jul 5, 2009 at 7:39 pm
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7 bella gerens » Blog Archive » Revelation and the grand narrative // Dec 30, 2009 at 10:54 pm
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