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Not another neoliberal shock therapy revolution, like Atlantic Council / New American Century stans want, it doesn’t.
I'm just now making the connection that the overtly fascist "shock doctrine" is directly tied to the neoliberal "shock therapy" (kind of like how "third way liberalism" and "third position fascism" have the same definition)
When you look at what happened to Chile, you come to realize that neoclassical / neoliberal / Chicago School economics and neocolonialism are very closely related.
IMO, neoclassical economics is a wildly successful psyop, such that it has become hegemonic in all capitalist countries. It’s an absolute garbage theory and yet is canon at every university, outside of perhaps China and the few other socialist states. Marxist economist Michael Hudson has helped me unlearn a lot of junk economics.
I unlearned junk economics through youtube and memes 😂
Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson’s Geopolitical Economy Hour YouTube series is excellent.
Correct. Bad revolution is bad but good revolution would be good.