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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
By Noam Chomsky
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Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and hundreds of cities economically devastated? Why would the world’s most powerful military spend ten years fighting an enemy that presents no direct threat to secure resources for corporations? The culprit in all cases is neoliberal ideology—the belief in the supremacy of "free" markets to drive and govern human affairs. And in the years since the initial publication of Noam Chomsky’s Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, the bitter vines of neoliberalism have only twisted themselves further into the world economy, obliterating the public’s voice in public affairs and substituting the bottom line in place of people’s basic obligation to care for one another as ends in themselves. In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism through an incisive analysis of free trade agreements of the 1990s, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund—and describes the movements of resistance to the increasing interference by the private sector in global affairs. In the years since the initial publication of Profit Over People, the stakes have only risen. Now more than ever, Profit Over People is one of the key texts explaining how the crisis facing us operates—and how, through Chomsky’s analysis of resistance, we may find an escape from the closing net.
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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival and Failed States. A laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives in Tuscon, Arizona.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Chomsky shows us how Big Business and Government collude in private to prevent democracy from happening and impose Free Market Capitalism which forces people into low wage insecure jobs, no human rights, fucked up work-life balances, no benefits etc. This is to facciliate what Naomi Klein-another leading figure of the Left called 'Wild Capital', and 'Wild' Capital, if it is to flow freely between Nation States, must be able to do so unimpeded by such things as Human Rights, Labour Rights, Democracy etc.
The most distressing aspect of all this is how Chomsky shows us how the above subvert and prevent Democracy whilst giving an appearance of Democracy by holding Elections which are as he points out just 'Electoral Exercises' rather than true exercises in People Power and the People, he points out, are stripped of their powers and controlled by 'men of superior quality' (probably a Platonic thing as in the Republic?) who know how to govern [properly] the 'rabble hordes' or vulgar masses as he points out.
This book, and the rest of Chomsky's Ouvre therefore is ESSENTIAL Reading for all those seeking to understand the landscape/s they are forced to inhabit and the need to overcome them,which again Chomsky shows us to give us hope that the Rich and Unaccountable Agenda setters CAN be called to account and not just ride roughshod of the wills of the peoples. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Try as a might I can't really find any holes in his arguments except of course he always sees any socialists as some benign creatures with nothing but charity in their hearts and not just the other side of the same power coin.