The Predators who rule the world
By Siv O'Neall
Oct 28, 2005, 09:08
Who are the neoliberals?
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Bourdieu continues to prove that neo-liberalism is not the ‘order of things’: “Everything that falls under the descriptive and normative name of ‘globalization’ is not the effect of an economic fatality, but of a conscious and deliberate policy, the one that has made liberal or even social-democratic governments of a group of economically advanced countries dispossess themselves of the power to control the economic forces.”(3)
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It certainly doesn’t help the people’s cause in their fight against these imperial masters that administrations like Bush & Co ‘starve the beast’ by cutting off more and more money for education, healthcare and social programs across his nation. The finance lords have the administration, and seemingly the majority of both parties in Congress, so well in hand that there is no real opposition to all this cutting of essential funds. The individual citizens have been rendered helplessly unarmed for such a vitally important fight. And this is, sadly, a trend spreading throughout Europe as well. Even the most basic funds have to be cut to make it possible for the predators to amass their obscene fortunes.
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Who are the victims?
Ordinary people from all strata of society are feeling the heat of the battle for survival. But it’s primarily poor people in the rich countries and all but a few callous opportunists in developing countries who bear the heavy burden of suffering from hunger and deprivation. Heartless and mindless dictators who enrich themselves at the expense of their poverty-stricken countrymen will always be a fact of life. But the incredible arrogance and seeming invincibility of the corporate lords seems to be a twist that was born with neo-liberalism. And here we are back at the beginning. As Pierre Bourdieu says, it’s the “economic fatality against which all resistance is vain”, the implacable force of this system comes from the fact that it’s set up to appear simply as ‘the order of things’. It can’t be any different because that’s the way finance works in order to optimize profit, the only thing that counts in the world of the neoliberals.
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The heads of state are helpless tools in the claws of the predators since their countries would suffer loss of investment and capital flight in the face of their non-cooperation. The world thus depends on civil society and the strength of the masses of lucid and humane people, the power of the streets, to defeat the colossus that is eagerly devouring the world. Corruption and greed can ultimately be defeated if we the people see the truth and act in accordance with our common sense and human instincts.
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