Reddit mentions of A Brief History of Neoliberalism

But where do the raw materials for goods made in China come from? The energy resources to keep that those factories and industries running? Certainly not China. This is actually why China was supportive of the US invasion of Iraq, they're extremely oil-hungry as well and had a gentleman's agreement. Same thing with the fancy electronics and cars Japan makes, all that rubber and rare earth mineral comes from Africa at rock-bottom prices.

Africa is holding a lot of the world's economy on its back, so is the middle east, and South Asia and parts of Latin America with their sweatshops.

If all US troops left their bases and came home probably the biggest immediate thing that would happen is that the US puppet government in Iraq would be either co-opted by pro-Iranian elements or overthrown completely, and the price of oil would skyrocket. That would immediately put the world economy in huge crisis.

In places like the Philippines or Colombia (Colombia supplies a huge amount of produce and coffee for cheap prices), revolutionary guerrilla elements that have been fighting for decades and hold territory like the New People's Army and FARC-EP would immediately kick their war into overdrive since the governments in power would no longer be supported/aided by the US military (US Marines were recently aiding Filipino Marines against the NPA and muslim insurgents).

In poor countries with center-left populist governments (Latin America), leaders would stop accepting austerity packages foisted on them by the IMF and World Bank and demand better wages and a big public sector for their worker's which would cause the 'price of doing business' in those countries to skyrocket.

If you're interested in the specifics of the current political and economic order of the world, here are two books I would recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Neoliberalism-David-Harvey/dp/0199283265

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312565747&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Imperialism-Clarendon-Lectures-Geography-Environmental/dp/0199278083/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312566375&sr=1-1

Sometimes David Harvey is hard to find in public libraries but I've found Confessions of an Economic Hitman in most of them.

They earn x 1000s more than everyone else..


Suppressing wages, pushing for less public spending, opening immigration borders among other things.


Take a red pill, learn who your masters are. You aren't for men, you are for them and their low growth small gov economy.

>Mr. Harvey explains that neoliberal propaganda has succeeded in fixating the public on a peculiar definition of 'freedom' that has served to conceal a project of upper class wealth accumulation. In practice, the neoliberal state assumes a protective role for capital while it sheds as much responsibility for the citizenry as possible. Mr. Harvey details how neoliberal theory is ignored whenever it comes time to bail out corporate interests from bad decision making while the safety net for the working class has been gradually eviscerated. The author effectively intersperses the text with graphs to illustrate how thirty years of neoliberalist policies has resulted in rising inequality, slower economic growth, higher incomes among the upper class, and other measures that serve to convincingly support and prove his thesis.


>Mr. Harvey's history of how neoliberalism has gained ascendancy mostly treads through familiar ground but also highlights some key events that are sometimes overlooked by others. For example, Mr. Harvey relates the well-known stories of how the Chilean coup in 1973 opened the door for Augusto Pinochet to implement the first national experiment in neoliberalism, followed by Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain in 1979 and Ronald Reagan in the U.S. in 1980. However, we also gain greater appreciation about the importance of the New York City bankruptcy in the 1970s. We learn how the city's financial crisis allowed for the imposition of neoliberal reforms in a manner that would prove to be a familiar template around the world: the rollback of labor rights, the privatization of public assets, cuts in public services, and increased policing, surveillance and political repression of a markedly polarized population.
http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Neoliberalism-David-Harvey/dp/0199283265/ref=cm_rdp_product_img


Your masters are the same people promoting multiculturalism and feminism.