Neoliberalism Inequality and Authoritarianism

Neoliberalism Inequality and Authoritarianism
Author: Jon Kofas
Publisher: The Little French eBooks
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
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This book exposes the inherent contradictions of neoliberalism. The myth of limitless growth ignores the reality of resource constraints and fuels a global upward transfer of wealth. Meanwhile, a fractured global economy and intensifying class warfare chip away at neoliberalism's foundation. As inequality spirals and social justice crumbles, the model increasingly serves a privileged few at the expense of the majority. This undermines the Enlightenment ideal of using liberal democracy to improve lives in the age of mass politics, threatening neoliberalism's very survival.

Neoliberalism Inequality And Authoritarianism

Neoliberalism Inequality And Authoritarianism
Author: Jon Kofas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-07-09
Genre: Political Science
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This book delves into the inherent contradictions that threaten to unravel the entire neoliberal project. Central to this critique is the myth of limitless growth. Neoliberal ideology posits that unfettered markets and minimal government intervention will lead to a rising tide that lifts all boats. However, this rosy scenario ignores the harsh reality of resource constraints. Our planet has finite reserves, and the relentless pursuit of ever-expanding production puts immense strain on the environment, jeopardizing long-term sustainability. Furthermore, this model has demonstrably fueled a global upward transfer of wealth. The benefits of economic growth have been concentrated in the hands of a select few, while wages stagnate and social safety nets erode for the vast majority. The consequences of this skewed distribution are starkly evident in the fractured global economy. Unregulated financial markets can trigger devastating crises, rippling outwards and destabilizing entire nations. Developing countries are often left holding the bag, burdened by debt and struggling to compete with the cutthroat tactics employed by powerful corporations. This dynamic fosters intensifying class warfare, as the gap between the wealthy and the working class widens. Social mobility stagnates, and the promise of the American Dream fades for many. As inequality spirals and social justice crumbles, the very foundations of neoliberalism are laid bare. This model increasingly serves a privileged few, enriching the elite at the expense of the majority. This fundamentally undermines a core Enlightenment ideal: using liberal democracy to improve the lives of citizens in the age of mass politics. When basic needs go unmet, political participation withers, and faith in democratic institutions erodes. The legitimacy of neoliberalism itself is under siege, threatened not just by social unrest but by its own internal contradictions. The book explores potential alternatives, offering a roadmap towards a more equitable and sustainable future.

Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Author: Ian Bruff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100071246X

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Authoritarian Neoliberalism explores how neoliberal forms of managing capitalism are challenging democratic governance at local, national and international levels. Identifying a spectrum of policies and practices that seek to reproduce neoliberalism and shield it from popular and democratic contestation, contributors provide original case studies that investigate the legal-administrative, social, coercive and corporate dimensions of authoritarian neoliberalism across the global North and South. They detail the crisis-ridden intertwinement of authoritarian statecraft and neoliberal reforms, and trace the transformation of key societal sites in capitalism (e.g. states, households, workplaces, urban spaces) through uneven yet cumulative processes of neoliberalization. Informed by innovative conceptual and methodological approaches, Authoritarian Neoliberalism uncovers how inequalities of power are produced and reproduced in capitalist societies, and highlights how alternatives to neoliberalism can be formulated and pursued. The book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Author: Wendy Brown
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231550537

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Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. From its inception, neoliberalism flirted with authoritarian liberalism as it warred against robust democracy. It repelled social-justice claims through appeals to market freedom and morality. It sought to de-democratize the state, economy, and society and re-secure the patriarchal family. In key works of the founding neoliberal intellectuals, Wendy Brown traces the ambition to replace democratic orders with ones disciplined by markets and traditional morality and democratic states with technocratic ones. Yet plutocracy, white supremacy, politicized mass affect, indifference to truth, and extreme social disinhibition were no part of the neoliberal vision. Brown theorizes their unintentional spurring by neoliberal reason, from its attack on the value of society and its fetish of individual freedom to its legitimation of inequality. Above all, she argues, neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy disappears.

States of Discipline

States of Discipline
Author: Cemal Burak Tansel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2017-02-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783486201

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Despite the severity of the global economic crisis and the widespread aversion towards austerity policies, neoliberalism remains the dominant mode of economic governance in the world. What makes neoliberalism such a resilient mode of economic and political governance? How does neoliberalism effectively reproduce itself in the face of popular opposition? States of Discipline offers an answer to these questions by highlighting the ways in which today’s neoliberalism reinforces and relies upon coercive practices that marginalize, discipline and control social groups. Such practices range from the development of market-oriented policies through legal and administrative reforms at the local and national-level, to the coercive apparatuses of the state that repress the social forces that oppose various aspects of neoliberalization. The book argues that these practices are built on the pre-existing infrastructure of neoliberal governance, which strive towards limiting the spaces of popular resistance through a set of administrative, legal and coercive mechanisms. Exploring a range of case studies from across the world, the book uses ‘authoritarian neoliberalism’ as a conceptual prism to shed light on the institutionalization and employment of state practices that invalidate public input and silence popular resistance.

Authoritarian Contagion

Authoritarian Contagion
Author: Luke Cooper
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529217792

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This innovative book uses examples from around the world to examine the spread of draconian and nationalistic forms of government - ‘authoritarian protectionism’ - which provides new insight into the changing nature of the authoritarian threat to democracy and how it might be overcome.

Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism

Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism
Author: Dennis C. Canterbury
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351152823

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Originally published in 2005. Domestic and foreign economic and political policies in the rich capitalist nations in the North and in the poor countries in the South are geared towards globalization and democratization. Indeed the dominant view held by countries in the North is that globalization leads to democracy and vice versa, and that in turn economic development will result from that process. Thus many scarce resources are allocated to bring about globalization and democracy. Exploring the dynamics of change that allow for the persistence of authoritarian states in the Third World, this illuminating book highlights certain aspects of democratization that have not been investigated fully. Anyone interested in development politics and political sociology will draw a plethora of important theoretical insights into globalization, authoritarianism and transition/democratization from this original study.

Terror of Neoliberalism

Terror of Neoliberalism
Author: Henry A. Giroux
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2018-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317250672

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This book argues that neoliberalism is not simply an economic theory but also a set of values, ideologies, and practices that works more like a cultural field that is not only refiguring political and economic power, but eliminating the very categories of the social and political as essential elements of democratic life. Neoliberalism has become the most dangerous ideology of our time. Collapsing the link between corporate power and the state, neoliberalism is putting into place the conditions for a new kind of authoritarianism in which large sections of the population are increasingly denied the symbolic and economic capital necessary for engaged citizenship. Moreover, as corporate power gains a stranglehold on the media, the educational conditions necessary for a democracy are undermined as politics is reduced to a spectacle, essentially both depoliticizing politics and privatizing culture. This series addresses the relationship among culture, power, politics, and democratic struggles. Focusing on how culture offers opportunities that may expand and deepen the prospects for an inclusive democracy, it draws from struggles over the media, youth, political economy, workers, race, feminism, and more, highlighting how each offers a site of both resistance and transformation.

New Landscapes of Inequality

New Landscapes of Inequality
Author: Jane Lou Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: United States
ISBN: 9781934691014

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The twenty-first century opened with a rapidly growing array of markers of human misery: endemic warfare, natural disasters, global epidemics, climate change. Behind the dismal headlines are a series of closely connected, long-term political-economic processes, often glossed as the rise of neoliberal capitalism. This phenomenon rests on the presumption that capitalist trade "liberalization" will lead inevitably to market growth and optimal social ends. But so far the results have not been positive. Focusing on the United States, the contributors to this volume analyze how the globalization of newly untrammeled capitalism has exacerbated preexisting inequalities, how the retreat of the benevolent state and the rise of the punitive, imperial state are related, how poorly privatized welfare institutions provide services, how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies are melding, and how recurrent moral panics misrepresent class, race, gendered, and sexual realities on the ground.

The Global Rise of Authoritarianism in the 21st Century

The Global Rise of Authoritarianism in the 21st Century
Author: Berch Berberoglu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100017106X

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Neoliberal globalization is in deep crisis. This crisis is manifested on a global scale and embodies a number of fundamental contradictions, a central one of which is the global rise of authoritarianism and fascism. This emergent form of authoritarianism is a right-wing reaction to the problems generated by globalization supported and funded by some of the largest and most powerful corporations in their assault against social movements on the left to prevent the emergence of socialism against global capitalism. As the crisis of neoliberal global capitalism unfolds, and as we move to the brink of another economic crisis and the threat of war, global capitalism is once again resorting to authoritarianism and fascism to maintain its power. This book addresses this vital question in comparative-historical perspective and provides a series of case studies around the world that serve as a warning against the impending rise of fascism in the 21st century.