All proponents of neoliberal globalisation - Thatcher, Reagan, and centrists like Blair - should really go down in history as those who almost destroyed the planet.
The ‘free market’ system that they imposed on us is an anti-democratic system that inevitably is rigged in the interests of the most successful and powerful corporations and billionaires, who're interested primarily in profit-making. The welfare of nature and humanity is secondary.
Nobody in their right mind could possibly believe that such a system of mass privatization - handing society over to oligarchs and corporations - is a sensible strategy for a healthy, prosperous future. It’s a recipe for ecocide, mass corruption and plunderous war, as has now been demonstrated.
We do sort of have planned economies - they’re just planned more in the interests of the planet-killing corporations, rather than in the interests of the planet. We need to switch to economies that are planned purely in the interests of the latter!
And for that to happen, we need governments in the US, UK, etc, that are focussed on taking on the powerful. There can be no compromises. Centrism needs to die.
Just imagine the world we could have had by now if we had a sane system that wasn’t rigged by the super rich - instead of killing millions of innocents in their for-profit wars, we could have put $trillions into green tech etc. Ugh!! Neoliberalism is HELL.
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