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The Cultural Revolution was an emergency measure too, in response to western imperialism.
Good luck with Trumps version- it does not look like a fun time for the USA.
What Trump is doing is crudely copying Chinas State Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Autocracy because neoliberalism has failed the USA.
How thin and flimsy the pretense of freedom and democracy, when imperialist hegemony is slipping from your grasp.
Good luck with Trumps version- it does not look like a fun time for the USA.
It's fun for the winning side.
What Trump is doing is crudely copying Chinas State Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Autocracy because neoliberalism has failed the USA.
What you call "neoliberalism" is just a brand of the same Jewish Marxist statist anti-nationalist slop that infected China.
No, what I call neoliberalism is where bankers and corporates (ie capital) captured the narrative and power of government in the west and turned it entirely to their short sighted profit maximisation objectives rather than what good government does- which is to protect and preserve the collective best interests of the entire nation.
Something your neoliberal infected mind probably cannot even conceptualise- you were probably bottle fed on the neoliberal rat poison...most of you Libertarians were.
Learn from history or repeat its tragedies...
Death rates from Covid virus in New Zealand were extremely low, while in the USA they were significantly larger.
Trumps neoliberal negligence-incompetence resulted in hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths.
USA 1,232,181 Dead
NZ 4,538 Dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country
Free markets do not protect the elderly and infirm.
Compassionate governments can.
It was a deadlier-than-average flu. Did not justify a global economic shutdown that catered to leftist elites at the expense of the working class.
what good government does- which is to protect and preserve the collective best interests of the entire nation
The government is a killing machine. It does not know how to manage an economy. There's no such thing as a "collective" interest.
You prove my earlier point eloquently-
No, what I call neoliberalism is where bankers and corporates (ie capital) captured the narrative and power of government in the west and turned it entirely to their short sighted profit maximisation objectives rather than what good government does- which is to protect and preserve the collective best interests of the entire nation.
Something your neoliberal infected mind probably cannot even conceptualise- you were probably bottle fed on the neoliberal rat poison...most of you Libertarians were.
Collective interest refers to the shared goals and benefits that a group or community seeks to achieve, often prioritizing these over individual interests for the greater good. It emphasizes the importance of cooperation and coordinated action to promote societal welfare and sustainability.
Something you, sadly, cannot understand.
When the private interests of the individual are promoted over and above those of the collective, as in Libertarian and feminist dogmas, the collective (ie community and nation) strength is degraded and ultimately, may fail. This is how empires collapse.
No, what I call neoliberalism is where bankers and corporates (ie capital) captured the narrative and power of government in the west and turned it entirely to their short sighted profit maximisation objectives rather than what good government does- which is to protect and preserve the collective best interests of the entire nation.
It had nothing to do with capital. They weren't profit motivated, which is why large corporations still refuse to touch BTC despite the obvious financial benefit.
"Collective interest" was the argument for deliberately promoting the nation's decay. The success of America's founding stock and even the country as a whole was framed as detrimental to the common good.
Collective interest refers to the shared goals and benefits that a group or community seeks to achieve, often prioritizing these over individual interests for the greater good.
Which community? You clearly aren't willing to sacrifice your individual private interests for the greater good as defined by the Emperor of the English-speaking world, so you're only a collectivist when it's conveniently aligned with your self-interest.
These are emergency measures for specific short-term goals in response to communists. It's not the same as idolizing the command economy as a positive in itself.