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"Herd Immunity" är epidemiologisk neoliberalism
Intressant artikel. Det ser mycket mörk ut för Sverige.
https://thequarantimes.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/herd-immunity-is-epidemiological-neoliberalism/
Tack för den! Mycket tänkvärt och välformulerat. Som en följd av covid sätts konsekvenserna av den sinnessjuka nyiberalismen i strålkastarljuset. På många håll förutspår man dess snara död och jag har noterat att det finns många röster som kommer från just nyliberalismens högborg USA. This is the end! Äntligen.
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Since the 1980s, we have been governed by the political paradigm of neoliberalism, which has replaced state-led social policy with privatization and deregulation of the market. Its belief in the inherent justice of the market has led to a political rationale, which literally puts profit before people. And it has colonized peoples’ minds by making them believe it is their fault if they are poor, precarious or unemployed.
The irony of neoliberalism is that it creates the illusion of social mobility, while reinforcing and even deepening social inequality. It assumes that if anyone can “make it” in a free market, it must be peoples’ own fault if they are poor. But this belief is not only wrong, it is also violent. Neoliberalism has resulted in the rich getting richer, and the poor suffering more from disenfranchisement, precariousness and dependency. What might seem like laissez-faire policy, is a refined and complex system of automated structural violence against the weak, which also shatters any possibilities of resistance.