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marmar

(77,094 posts) Sat Jan 17, 2015, 12:20 PM Jan 2015

Neoliberalism has made you a disposable human being

Listen to the interview: https://soundcloud.com/this-is-hell/832henrygiroux

The future demands a new political consciousness. We can't just wait for neoliberal economics to tear apart society and then build from scratch. Cultural critic Henry Giroux published his thoughts in the Truthout analysis article Authoritarianism, Class Warfare and the Advance of Neoliberal Austerity Policies. Author and cultural critic Henry Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28600-searching-for-radical-democracy-in-the-ruins-of-capitalism-s-economic-depravity

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Neoliberalism has made you a disposable human being (Original Post) marmar Jan 2015 OP

Recommended with prejudice mmonk Jan 2015 #1

oooohh, it goes so much further than that: not only is every flower, every species, every human, MisterP Jan 2015 #2

mmonk

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1. Recommended with prejudice

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Sat Jan 17, 2015, 12:22 PM

Jan 2015

MisterP

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2. oooohh, it goes so much further than that: not only is every flower, every species, every human,

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Sat Jan 17, 2015, 03:21 PM

Jan 2015

every thought, every learning experience boiled down to its dollar value and financialized, Charles S. Sanford, Jr., of Bankers Trust in 1993 proclaimed a "particle finance" will let all wealth and investments be consolidated into "wealth accounts" divisible into particles of risk derived from the original investment, which can be sold and bundled--distressed Japanese real estate, Gabonese perfume futures, Nigerian foreign debt, everything not just a commodity but the same commodity

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