Slog - Comments on The Age of Post-Neoliberalism http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism After a terrific (for a few) and brutal (for many) 30-year run, neoliberalism has reached death's door. That door will have to open and the world economy will enter the solution to everything: a permanent and universal state of socialism. Welcome to the future! The crisis was caused by the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in the history of humanity were excessive leveraging and bubbles were not limited to housing in the US but also to housing in many other countries and excessive borrowing by financial institutions and some segments of the corporate sector and of the public... Copyright 2008 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:54:48 -0800 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:49:22 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Socialism sounds nice and all, but I don't want my fortunes and chances at life tied to the rest of humanity. Humanity is pretty dumb.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169943 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169943 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:55:28 -0800 Comment by charles mudede Mr. Poe, there is no other choice. This it. We now breath in and out the air of socialism. The world will be a better place.

]]> charles mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169947 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169947 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:40 -0800 Comment by w7ngman To think that that sentence might actually continue is numbing my brain.

]]> w7ngman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169955 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169955 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:11:06 -0800 Comment by NaFun Holy garbled sentence, Batman! That thing was so painful to read I had to stop. Charles, can you give a summary that makes sense, please?

]]> NaFun http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169957 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169957 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:11:30 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe So buy me a drink.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169960 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169960 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:13:54 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens "Le laissez-faire, c'est fini." --Nicolas Sarkozy, Sept. 25, 2008.

The Good News, straight from the mouth of France's erstwhile Reagan-in-waiting. Reaganomics is, at long last, dead. GOOD. FUCKING. RIDDANCE.

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169974 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169974 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:24:50 -0800 Comment by tomasyalba Funny, socialism and neoliberalism each has lovely benefits obvious to all, but each carries its shadow around, its consequence, its price. In neither case will we ever endure the consequence, neither today with the neolib market functioning perfectly normally, accurately reporting that nothing is worth what we hoped; nor in future after we slouch toward socialism, when we will absolutely refuse to pay for the kind of excellent free universal early education upon which the hope of socialism must rest.

The coffee is so strong this morning that I have no idea what I may have written. NaFun, how's this for garbled?

]]> tomasyalba http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169976 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169976 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:27:32 -0800 Comment by Humanity Capitalism sounds nice and all, but I don't want my fortunes and chances at life tied to the rest of humanity. Mr. Poe is pretty dumb.

]]> Humanity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169991 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169991 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:35:04 -0800 Comment by CA "Mr. Poe, there is no other choice. This it. We now breath in and out the air of socialism. The world will be a better place."

Exactly what the socialists and the communists were saying before and after the Great Depression.

"A gifted platoon of muckrakers-Ida Tarbell, David Graham Phillips, Lincoln Steffens-charged through the country exposing theft, scandal, brutality. Directly behind them came the Socialists, pointing to the system that had created the abuses which the muckrakers exposed" Irving Howe.

They were wrong then and they will be wrong now. If the Great Depression was incapable of turning the US into a socialist economy, then why are you convinced it will happen this time?

]]> CA http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169994 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1169994 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:36:21 -0800 Comment by Trevor Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. What kind of socialism leaves all the neoliberals in power?

]]> Trevor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170048 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170048 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:16:27 -0800 Comment by RonK, Seattle Is that how you interpret this ink blot, mudede?

Others see a door opening to a dystopian corporate paternalism, where everybody is "too big to fail" ... contemporary Japan meets Rollerball.

]]> RonK, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170130 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170130 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:14:45 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave Too big to fail should equal antitrust breaking up.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170173 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170173 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:02:36 -0800 Comment by eric sic You are really crap when it comes to economics... the blog entry you link to has not one well thought out argument, just a lot of "Holy Shit!" Stick to Negri/Hardt regurgitations, old cove.

]]> eric sic http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170218 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170218 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:40:23 -0800 Comment by max solomon instead of socialism, can't we just call it fascism? because that's what murkins are going to want.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170272 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170272 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:18:22 -0800 Comment by Issur Charles, the idiot Christians are to stupid to grasp Hegel and Marx. Israel long ago grasped the social evolution of economics into a higher form know as Socialism.

Obama lives and breathes Marxism, and his whole campaign is social construction theory write large. Obama will smash us corporate capitalism and if we are lucky idiot capitalists like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos will be sent to a farm with William Buffet to shovel pig manure and plant organic kale.

Capitalism is over, long life socialism with Obama as our first socialist Great Leader. Mazel Tov!

]]> Issur http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170285 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170285 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:29:19 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave Issur, when you move out of the basement at your parent's place, make note - it's Warren Buffet.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170297 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/the_age_of_postneoliberalism#c1170297 Money Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:42:08 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster It's Jimmy Buffett, you putz!

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