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episode 15: Capitalism Without a Human Face: Neoliberalism as a Stage of Capitalism?
Like most other political terms, the word "neoliberal" has been used so much to describe so many disparate things that it has ceased to have meaning. Well, unfortunately neoliberalism is real and it is an economic idea and political project that completely dominates every aspect of modern capitalist society and even our resistance to it.
So, listen up and learn what we just learned about how much everything sucks.
Varn talks with Mirowski on Symptomatic Redness
https://www.mixcloud.com/symptomatic-redness/ep-1-phillip-mirowski-on-neoliberalism/
Harvey on Neoliberalism As a Political Project
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/
Interview with Mirowski
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/fixing-old-markets-with-new-markets-the-origins-and-practice-of-neoliberalism.html
Mirowski on Neoliberalism
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/02/neoliberalism-movement-dare-not-speak-name/
The Uses and Abuses of “Neoliberalism”
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/uses-and-abuses-neoliberalism-debate
Michael Roberts on Neoliberalism
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/neoliberalism-not-so-bad/
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/neoliberalism-works-for-the-world/
Music: MelonadeM- Garfield Gameboy'd Credits