August 09, 2004

Goodby democracy?

Another link. This time it is to an article on neo-liberalism by Henry Giroux. He says:


"Free market fundamentalism rather than democratic idealism is now the driving force of economics and politics in most of the world, and it is a market ideology driven not just by profits but by an ability to reproduce itself....Wedded to the belief that the market should be the organizing principle for all political, social, and economic decisions, neoliberalism wages an incessant attack on democracy, public goods, the welfare state, and non-commodified values."

This describes how the world of economics and politics is seen from Canberra. The deregulated market has become the central organizing principle of social life.

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at August 9, 2004 10:56 PM | TrackBack
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