Neoliberals tend to act a lot like neoconservatives; they both say one thing and do the other.
“There is no such thing as society, there are only individuals” — Margaret Thatcher.
It is important to note that both Bernays and his uncle, Sigmund Freud, did not hold out much hope for human intelligence. They held mostly elitist views over the masses and feared mass democracy. Sigmund Freud lived to see horrific revolutions and revolts which followed the…
“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane…
The elites were capitalists, not socialists, and then you went from socialism to feudalism. You acknowledged before Chavez there was a kind of Latin feudalism, which is completely different from socialism, and it completely contradicts what you just said earlier.
“The Bolivarian experience in Venezuela
Americans have been trained by decades of Cold War propaganda to look for any confirmation that “socialism means poverty.” A quick, simplistic portrait of the problems currently facing Venezuela, coupled with the fact that President Nicolas Maduro describes himself as a Marxist, can…
You call it socialism. I call it state capitalism. Anyway, you are wrong. I highly recommend you read the article I linked to. Below is an example.
“Another consequence that Venezuela’s oil wealth has had for its political system is that it turned it into what political scientist Terry Lynn Karl calls a “pacted democracy.”…