I am personally for radical direct democracy, nothing less, nothing more, because I view the political as trumping the economic, feel free to purge me once the revolution is there but I am interested if there are other “alternative” takes

  • sagarmatha [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    in all honesty i do believe that every single part of the human system matters, but that for political purposes the political takes precedence or at least can, I am definitely not just a materialist though since i consider ideas and most importantly institutions, if equal weight, it is messy because it is fragmented and would take a full novel or more to outline everything

    • p_sharikov [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If ideas are so central to the rise of neoliberalism, why was it implemented more or less simultaneously in multiple ideologically independent regions of the world?

      • sagarmatha [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        what do you mean ideologically independent? if you believe in the class analysis no ideology of the top is independent and if you look at history US-EU ties plus american advisers in south america and the former ussr territory, plus the hegemony of the us in media, plus the predominance of neolibs in the scientific publications of the time, which later seeped into the higher education are clear explanations