Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: How Do We Break from Neo-Liberalism?

[@albertroundtree8546]

Great talk Professor Harvey. Constantly I have to quell Habitus from rising. Recently, I was shopping late in a DIY store when the loudspeakers began warning of closing time. My friend said just ignore it, because the manager is not going to turn away extra money. He didn't care, until I reminded him that his daughter is a cashier at a supermarket and is always moaning about the extra hours she has to do because of selfish people like us.

[@drebugsita]

Very relatable, as a former retail worker at an upscale company. The manager, a #girlboss, always gave me trouble when I closed on time if she or any of her "upscale guests" were still there. And then she wondered why the maintenance staff wouldn't answer her calls/demands

[@gfarrell80]

This man is a treasure.

[@mattfahey7250]

Yes! Yes! Yes! That's absolutely what has happened! Now, we just need to rephrase this in a way that the general public, and less intellectual among us, can understand. Then perhaps this long, sad decline of society, I have witnessed throughout my life, can finally come to an end.

[@nomosnomosowicz7379]

What and where have we declined from? I'd like to know about this utopia.

[@marygard4608]

@@nomosnomosowicz7379 The utopia ended for me when I realized who my government actually works for.

[@nl5455]

@@marygard4608 Whom does your government work for? Also, what is your government, if you don't me asking?

[@marygard4608]

@@nl5455 The US gov't works for Corporate America. I live under the government of the United States of America. People who immigrate here do well if they speak English and bring a skill. Help from back home is not uncommon. But the poor and desperate, who are fleeing here with little more than what they carry, they suffer mightily. That is the essense of American government.

[@nl5455]

@@marygard4608 Wow. I think it's called lobbying? Is that how big corporations influence the government and policy makers. I also think politicians and big corp CEOs meet up and become friends with each other to benefit each other.

[@LongDefiant]

3:23 This is how fascism develops. A part of the ruling class seizes the levers of power to overcome an economic disaster, or to suppress the working class.

[@ProleDaddy]

Fascism has been here for many decades.

[@LongDefiant]

@@ProleDaddy I don't disagree, however my comment was meant to elucidate the general trend that produces fascism (or any other reactionary -ism), rather than a commentary on fascist America.

[@ProleDaddy]

@@LongDefiant What definition are we going with? Fascism, if not from the capitalist definition, is the uniting of the economic and executive branches of a government under capitalism.

[@DJWESG1]

@@ProleDaddy the dictionary definition - a rightwing authoritarian form of government/ mentality

[@ProleDaddy]

@@DJWESG1 Feels pretty authoritarian and righty up in this dump.

[@jeffheller642]

This is beyond brilliant. It is essential, and so concisely yet passionately presented! Almost charming the way David brings in the French theorists Foucault and Bourdieu. I think however he should have referenced the 'early' Marx, in particular, the '44 Manuscripts, whence I believe the original mention of the idea that philosophical ideas are abstractions of material relations. Anyway, thank you Prof; please stay well and look forward to your return in February.

[@elysium619]

"The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening." --- Rosa Luxemburg

[@Drforbin941]

Absolutely brilliant. Wonderful, thank you Prof Harvey.

[@marygard4608]

Thank you, Professor for giving a context to the depression and despair that is so easily manipulated into anger. With this kind of clarity we can develop the righteous anger needed to bring this dying, kicking and screaming neoliberal lie into the sunshine where all vampires die!

[@denisemorton56]

Excellent. Such a good educator. Thank you David Harvey for your work.

[@dragonwright8913]

I've been very annoyed with the hyper individualism of our society and didn't understand where it came from .. you have once again opened my eyes, ears and mind .. thank you

[@tonywilson4713]

Yeah its a pretty interesting concept. About the only thing he said that I balked at was when he said there's no alternative form of capitalism than we can have. I find that as narrow minded as the fools who say there's no form of socialism that can work after the experiments of Eastern Europe and Asia. If we use those examples then there is no alternative to the world. Humanity has failed with socialism and failed with capitalism before that humanity failed with feudalism, failed with monarchies, theocracies, meritocracies, oligarchies, plutocracies and kleptocracies to name a few. It was a great talk but on that one point I'd ask him: What are we then left with? Because Marxism failed everywhere they tried it, because id didn't eliminate the one thing he points to here - the ruling class. All the Marxist states were run by a ruling class and all their policies were for keeping that ruling class in power.

[@burden9809]

This man has said more in this presentation than can be taken in in one viewing. Go back and watch it again. Then share it with all those that have the capacity to understand ! Ranked choice voting now will help move along the rising tide is awareness!

[@avs4365]

Being 75 years old and having lived through the decades covered can I say that common sense could see where, as nations, we were headed. It's wonderful to hear such an analysis that opens a debate very necessary in our present time. Thank you Professor.

[@PonyTrotsky]

Harvey is SO good on this topic! His "The Condition of Postmodernity" is one of the most exciting books I've ever read, and I love these little elaborations on the subject. You just don't come across this kind of very broad, very comprehensive thinking very often.

[@judithwyer389]

We need to create and expand the institutions of solidarity which challenge the psychological hold of post-modern neo-liberalism, a cultural and emotional waste land. Organizing the working class through unionization is a good place to start. The neo-liberal project from day one was about union busting: Reagan and the air traffic controllers and Thatcher with the coal miners. Human beings are not meant to be isolated "competitors." We are wired for a collective existence. Read Rutger Bregman's Humankind.

[@nomosnomosowicz7379]

That collective existence sounds nice - where has that existed historically?

[@marygard4608]

@@nomosnomosowicz7379 Probably still exists among native peoples and old hippies.

[@nl5455]

Collective existence, WITHIN groups. Ie. Tribe A will still be in some form of competition with Tribe B.

[@bemusedobserver6476]

@@nomosnomosowicz7379 When you work for any of these Capitalist operations...you work in a collective to achieve a goal. Capitalism would NOT exist if workers were not working in a collective.

[@nomosnomosowicz7379]

@@bemusedobserver6476 yes, when you're using the word in that sense, yes everything that is not entirely individual and done in isolation would technically fall under that umbrella. Of course, using the word that way in this context renders it entirely useless.

[@vickieblakeley4501]

Thank you David Harvey

[@jeannined7532]

Dr. Harvey, what a dazzling expression of deep insight into reality combined with masterful presentation of factual data! And the weaving together of these separate threads to present us with a coherent, easily understood template: ruling class, ruling ideas, ruling policy, and habitus. Just knowing how the current system operates has given me a way I can coherently explain a very complex reality to other people. I can remember my sister's high school graduation in 1966 and the idea of the "individual" was gaining ground in Goldwater"s Arizona. My dad was so annoyed by the addresses given to the graduating class spouting Individualistic notions of responsibility...I was 13, but because my father was LOUDLY annoyed, I remember very clearly the word "individual" being spouted over and over to the graduating class. My dad saw very clearly then how society would disintegrate if the focus became "meism" Perhaps a more impeccable word to describe individualism (which, by the way doesn't even exist according to quantum physics) is "chaos". Infinite "choices" is not freedom. It is just one other way that the masses are distracted and enslaved. It makes me wonder, does the 1% understand that when it all goes down they will be included in the collapse? Or are they all building spaceships to take off to some distant planet? I say this tongue in cheek, but honestly, when one takes a long painful look at the reality of the powers of this world, the often intentional evil that is foisted on those below in the food chain make me think anything is possible. But I won't go down the rabbit hole and stay there. As a lifetime meditator and contemplative practioner, I have seen the fundamental truth of the Great Reality. It is Goodness, Truth, and Beauty. Human beings have the capacity to shift gears and come together to work toward a vision that includes the longing for these virtues as the primary vision towards which we aim. It may require a lot of suffering and destruction first, but this vision is not utopian bosh either. Human perfection is not required. Only a desire to humbly serve the cause of Love and to practice forgiveness. Thank you!

[@andrealb4363]

Outstanding, truly Outstanding. One of the best ep. from this podcast. How prof Harvey frames the question of the habitus as an armor allowing the ruling class to reproduce itself and its wealth and power is fantastic. And it's fantastic also the relation between habitus and the individual, again, a neoliberal armor imposed upon, and absorbed by, the indivudials to automatically instinctively, i would say, "naturally", counter intrusive anticapitalist mindsets, ideas, practices. So the individual is brought unconsciously to defuse any antisystemic thoughts from within because of the neoliberal habitus. Amazing prof. Harvey. I hope he's going to formalize all this in a book.

[@lawsonj39]

As an intellectual exercise, postmodernism is a lot of fun: to play around with a lot of different ways of looking at--"constructing"--reality is both freeing and intensely interesting. It reveals, among many other things, how one point of view makes certain facts recede in importance and foregrounds other facts. But when you try to go beyond intellectual play to make substantive decisions about how to conduct yourself and how society should direct the flow of human activities, you've got to settle on a point of view, a set of priorities about what sorts of facts we should use to measure the impact of our actions. I don't regret my enjoyment of postmodernist thought, but I recognize that it's not a basis for coherent action.

[@leam1978]

agreed. i think something that often gets lost in criticism of postmodernism is that it is primarily useful as a thought exercise and a critique--not necessarily as a discourse replacement. when i hear intellectuals treat it as though it is relativism manifest, i think they've missed the point altogether. to take a quick example, duchamp's "fountain" was a postmodern exercise in deconstructing both the artistic ideas and the hierarchy from which they arose. at the same time, art fundamentals were never discarded; our understanding evolved to meet the challenge.

[@nomosnomosowicz7379]

if consistently maintained it leads to nihilism - but consistency is little valued.

[@DerekSpeareDSD]

Enlightening!

[@darrencampbell2260]

We have a bankers economy now.This is what they wanted all along but how do you get rid of it ?

[@nonameslb]

Thanks Prof.Harvey 👌

[@ac7205]

That's a wrap.👏👏👏 👍❤️🔔

[@patrickmazza7055]

Take that, Derrida!

[@jgwizo]

Democracy is under corporate power whose success is based on making discreet changes that makes public to accept and downplay joint success. If one considers the number of "Boka Haram" US bases through out the world and people accept this as not bad because they accept this unileral decision until like Cambodia they findout that their freedom has been highjacked.

[@bz7901]

I would love to read about the neoliberal habitus and the unconsciousness of how our thinking is limited by neoliberal ideas. Book recommendations please???

[@rbu83145]

Would recommend David Graeber's book: Debt, Service And The Origins Of Capitalism. You'll find it explodes many of the myths that underpin present day neoliberal ideology, which is, after all, just a more naked form of capitalism in general.

[@DJWESG1]

Anything by Ulrick Beck in his risk society series. Margaret Archer and Anthony Giddens on reflexivity and reflexive modernisation.

[@JoeBauers8]

We don’t. The world becomes like Childreb of Men without the sterility part.

[@virabearshiva703]

Does the top really need to scalp the labor costs in order to profit? Thanks for sharing this! I will need to listen again!!

[@LongDefiant]

Billionaires don't get that way by stealing from other billionaires. All the wealth starts in the poorest household and works it's way up.

[@boathemian7694]

They don’t have to, but greed knows no restraint. I worked in Norway once and was surprised to see US oil companies operating there, a country that taxed them far more and demand far more safety precautions. They simply made a fraction less profit.

[@ethanstump]

i think that interestingly it's not about profit, but power. i honestly think that they make less profits and money overall than they did during the golden age pre-nixon shock. however, they have greater control, greater authority, and have tamped down most of the revolutionary spirit, and the spirit that is left is isolated from the wider society. growth has been stagnant for half a century. it's almost like disempowering the generator's of wealth(worker's) limit's societies development. in order to keep worker's from becoming the ruler's of society, they need to make sure worker's only have enough energy to go to work, eat/sleep/piss/repeat. TLDR: they are a bit less wealthy than they were pre-Nixon shock, but everyone else is a whole lot less wealthy, and they like that way.

[@ashdavies621]

@@ethanstump hi in the US army, drafted men, please bear with me, if the soldier does not pick up his gun and use it, the noncombatants accreditation is destroyed, he's jailed, and not heard of if he had words, the US fear is others will follow, just saying.

[@yizhai776]

I love his English accent 😂

[@polihayse]

Maybe I'm not educated enough on this, but I had a hard time following.

[@d.russellmoros7841]

"But all science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided." K. Marx Capital Vol. III Part VII. Revenues and their Sources Chapter 48. The Trinity Formula Just keep studyin' and always remember that... "There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits." K. Marx Capital V. 1, 1872 PREFACE TO THE FRENCH EDITION

[@rockyfjord3753]

Man does not have a nature. Man has a history. [Man in the generic sense, as used for millennia.] Ortega y Gasset. In 'Man and Crisis,' Ortega talks about the individual and 'people,' or society. I think Ortega's insights are also a good addition to the discussion. Jacques Barzun also wrote about Marx, and critically. I suspect there is something paradoxical between the individual and society, not unlike the paradox between freedom and security Dostoevsky elucidated in 'The Parable of the Grand Inquisitor' in The Brothers Karamosov. The 'I' is the responsible I; society is the irresponsible 'I.' But one must read this idea in the context of Ortega's development. I like the discussion here by David Harvey. At the same time, it's necessary -- or so I think -- to juxtapose his ideas with historical analysis and reason, and vital reason as well. [I.e. Life is the fundamental reality for humans.] We are at the apogee of the Cartesian revelation while lapsing into barbarism [Rendition] while already living in the Carsonian epoch [climate change] but in need of a new revelation to displace the Cartesian. This is classic Ortega y Gasset, who I think is the philosopher present generations need to listen to. Ortega is known for 'Revolt of the Masses,' which people superficially interpret [without reading] as anti-socialist. But philosophy is a discipline, not a horoscope to be believed. Or so I think.

[@satya3290]

❤️ and respect Prof. Harvey thank you so much for the series. @30:01 you talk about becoming neoliberal and reacting in ways that are neoliberal -- what does that mean? What are these ways of reacting? Anyone else in the comments who might have any thoughts on this, please do respond to my questions too...

[@allonesame6467]

There is an aphorism that might help, or at least this is how I think about habitus. "The fish does not look for or try to find the ocean."

[@satya3290]

@@allonesame6467 thanks, i'll think on that - yeah the conditioning is deep. it's so serendipitous you mention this... only just now i saw this Yugopnik vid with a reference to fishes, oceans and barrels - kzbin.info/www/bejne/g52zYaGsf7imnrc

[@clararomero9206]

You asked for it. My personal position being insignificant, I simply determine to BE the change I want to see. Sufficiently prescient to FLEE the failing empire upon Reagan's election, have spent the past 40 of my miraculously realized 76 scenic summers traveling across 23 countries and sojourning in 10, teaching English for survival-funds. Have never played a video-game, watched a porn-film, purchased anything online, eaten in a fast-food temple, nor touched any anti-social media; my simple cell-phone has no apps and my various homes, no sugar or salt. I read continually (in 8 languages ), play classical piano, and prioritize PEOPLE....ALL of them - and, even more, the fuzzy furry slimy shiny superior Beings who suffer US. I guard my pennies under the pillow upon which I relish 9 hours of peaceful snoozing nightly - and enjoy near-perfect health and enviable energy. My adult children ( my daughter, a Spanish-language teacher; my son, a hospice nurse) also boast fitness and world-communication skills - as do their own adopted kids. Neoliberalism preys upon Humanity's WORST GREED and most profound fears.....WE celebrate Life's every day, relatively free from both traps. WE sing and dance and cook ( with home-grown herbs and spices ) and swim and hike and laugh and play with our numerous World-families - and we honor ALL the Goddesses ( as well as their respective male partners). The simplistic formula: EVERYTHING that breathes and grows ( bees, bugs, trees, rivers, seas and slugs - and EVERYONE's KIDS!) has EXACTLY the SAME VALUE. Must survive another 70 summers to enjoy Humanity's inevitable evolution....am seizing the opportunity you have presented to share my perspective: THANKS!

[@paladinsorcerer67]

Neoliberal: liberal on social issues, conservative on financial issues. Reacting in ways that are neoliberal: following the stock market because it impacts your 401K, voting for Donald Trump because no other politician makes claims that they will bring back jobs, participating in the adoration of corporate heroes because you want a piece of or to learn from their success, denigating labor unions as being the source of corruption, participating in mindless consumption as a means of propping up the economy and supposedly being a valid form of patriotism, using the automated check-out lines in grocery stores because your convenience is more important than the jobs it displaces, voting for politicians that arent necessarily working in your best interests because you are uninformed and you tend to vote for whoever is popular at the moment, sending your kids to private school because public schools have been underfunded and depend solely on property taxes, focusing on identity politics to the exclusion of fiscal issues because financing is too difficult to understand, etc.

[@satya3290]

@@clararomero9206 thank you for your perspective 🙏

[@rockyfjord3753]

Arnold Toynbee invented 'racism' and 'anti-racism,' the latter he believed only he embodied among all intellectual peers. It's bogged down generations in some dialectic of race. I wonder if class falls into the same conundrum as a concept that man gets caught up in, as a template placed upon reality and seen as defining. I've never felt comfortable with the idea of jobs, working for wages, completely removed from the immediacy of natural resources with which man -- unadaptable to nature -- uses to adapt nature to himself. [Man in the generic sense used for millennia.] I don't like the idea of working for money. And money was meant as a convenience for trade, not as a commodity in itself to be traded for profit, upon which the whole financialist schema is based. No fan of an oligarchical and/or plutocratic class ruling over us. But I also am no fan of 7 billion+ masses of people who thus far have refused to control their biological function over procreation, valuing quantity of life over quality of life, and having jeopardized environment and climate in the mindless pursuit of sexual compulsion. Somewhat apocalyptic about Western Civilization, with US hegemony, unreckoned destruction of life and states, renascence of barbarism, economic sanctions as warfare ad nauseam.

[@rgaleny]

IRRATIONAL PROFIT EXPECTATIONS

[@randy2819]

Hm difficult talk ^^ this is going to take months if not years for me to digest , atleast it can be gnawed on for months atleast untill febuary 😁

[@normalizedaudio2481]

If you listen to this guy, you really jumped down the rabbit hole. I'm just here to see the cactus blooms.

[@tarnopol]

Harvey’s great, but god forbid we lefties should broaden our audience by using normal English. For example, “habitus” seems to be Bourdieu for “conventional wisdom.” It’s a problem of the academic left-I mean, it is a problematic tendency within the knowledge-worker formation of the anarcho-marxian anticapitalist nexus.

[@jefffarmer5785]

I apologize for my IGNORANCE, But- what are the drawbacks of Neoliberalism-?? 🤔😁✌

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

Liberals are capitalists who believe in freedom and equality (even though capitalism makes that impossible). Neo-liberals are conservative-capitalists who believe corporations are people (the only people who matter).

[@jefffarmer5785]

@Krzysiek Mazanek WTH-??????? 🤔😳😠💩👎

[@gfarrell80]

Ayldbr Madison gave a pretty good response, but I'll fill in more: Neoliberals believe 'free markets' are capable of delivering a fair, free, and prosperous society. So they do things like deregulation and privatization of government or socialized programs. A Neoliberal would take a nationalized company and give it to a private corporation, believing the private corporation would run it better. The Affordable Care Act, for instance, is Neoliberal legislation because it mandates people by in to the private health insurance market (have our health care costs gone down? is our system efficient?). Neoliberals are interested in Venezuela because Venezuela currently has its energy sector nationalized, i.e., the profits are used for public services rather than private profits. Neoliberals are interested in destroying the US Postal Service, hoping to replace it with private for-profit carriers. This also extends to the military. Since Bush 2, private contractors have been used by the military for a lot of logistical, intelligence, and even combat roles. To the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars of contracts (those 'no-bid' contracts in the Iraq war, for example, going to private corporations). Previously the military would handle most or all of that stuff. Relying on private ('free market') contractors for those kind of roles is another example of Neoliberalization. You'll notice our military budget hasn't gained any efficiency lately. Basically, Neoliberalism leads to a consolidation of economic power among monopolists. Since legislatures can be bought, it also leads to a monopoly on political power. This is why all our legislature seems to be able to do over the last 45 years is pass tax cuts, deregulation, privatization, and corporate handouts to monopolist sectors of the economy.

[@pb8601]

The obliteration of “the common good” resulting in the following: Widespread planetary destruction with a TINA imagination and/or plan to fix it Gross inequality with a parallel weakening of democracy Health care for profit, resulting in poor outcomes and an inability to handle public health crisis A broken government that can’t solve problems because it is a slave to capital The commodification of everything These are just a few things that pop into my head. I’m old and remember when there was such a thing as the public good. I don’t believe people would have felt put upon to wear masks and vaccines would not be exploited for obscene profit.

[@TheaHFrancis]

@@gfarrell80 a great explanation! ☺️

[@nitsujnaej]

When is David Harvey going to come down from his academic ivory tower and enter the real world? That is, the world that we have lived in for the past 20 months, under a 'Neo-liberalism' construct, according to Klaus Shwab and the WEF (World Economic Forum).

[@Objectivityiskey]

This man is masterful in the implementation of the meaningless word salad. What a waste of time.

[@DJWESG1]

It's not your fault you don't understand basic English. Take an Introduction to economics or social science and it'll give the tools you need to understand.

[@Objectivityiskey]

@@DJWESG1 My understanding of English is immaculate and the reason I can differentiate between individuals with something important to say, and bots like this old man that imitate the speech patterns of their betters in an attempt to trick their Marxist cult members into believing they are saying something important. You would benefit from learning the difference.

[@DJWESG1]

@@Objectivityiskey so you do understand him, and instead you refuse to accept what he says, probably due to that massive chip on your shoulder. Can you understand that?

[@Objectivityiskey]

@@DJWESG1 LOL, I understand what he is trying to sell, but I don't buy into cult propaganda.

[@DJWESG1]

@@Objectivityiskey you can't buy anti capitalism.

[@rvaclavek]

Thank you for your work Professor Harvey. Have a great holiday season, and I look forward to seeing you in February.

[@ashdavies621]

YOU SAY China struggles with their oligarchy "tell us me how" ? where is the prof? Is this you say the only reason the US oligarchy holds on to their pathetic attempts to put the world into chaos? tell us where in the world China helps countries their dirty deeds are done? this allegation must be found out from your facts. thankyou and thankyou for a good listening in from your vast knowledge.

[@screenarts]

The fact it's an oligarchy alone is disturbing enough would you not agree? Let alone social credit scores, censorship of media. Lmfao, Chinese people are being used, just like American people. Same Master rules both. Money, power, class, greed.

[@ashdavies621]

@@screenarts No I absolutely disagree Chinese people are far from USA people the opposite more like in cleanliness, business, ethics and genuine people and are not greedy that's truly USA the politicians do not say one thing and keep doing the other. The Chinese and called committees are the oligarchy pay heavily to the united Chinese bilateral belt and road initiative, and pay all their employee's well, they all make money, that is truly not the American custom, there is just about zero homelessness, considering the population, compared to 340 million Where do you base American values to China argument? please don't say your 'democracy'. The US oligarchy steal trillion upon trillion off the American public and put zero to infrastructural and the US economy, America prints money. Where as China helps and lift poverty at home and world wide the countries they develop China does not blockade and starve countries to submission. Please if you can tell us of Americas greatness and American oligarchy's good deeds, thankyou Oh lets not talk US nor international Media censorship. and silly me I thought this plate form was for intelligent past notable actualities in philosophic truths? without verification and prof such allegations said, in this type of platform reputation could make you or kill off subscriptions, thankyou, Does 'Lmfao' mean ''laugh my fucken ass off" genuine,

[@screenarts]

@@ashdavies621 What are you talking about? The Chinese people have the exact same problem the American people have run into. Neither peoples are free both ruled by power begotten by foreign and national moneyed interests. The Chinese people should be in solidarity with the American people to rid themselves of these wood be dictators, in China's case actual dictator. China people have had fascism put on them like the Americans have. Both peoples kept in the dark and fed bull ship. Get it?

[@screenarts]

@@ashdavies621 yes us privately owned banks print money. Not the us government but privately owned banks create debt. That is money from created thin air on your promise to pay it back at a interest charge. The interest is never created. If we ever quit borrowing from the private banks all money will soon leave circulation in service to the debt. This power of the private banks not only enslaves the American people but this individual debt is infecting China at a rapid pace. Imagine you run the nation and want to accomplish something but the banks don't like the idea. They can raise interest or quit lending. Who has the real power? China has let in a trojan horse and its tentacles have already consumed American people. Yes laughing my fuking are off. Lmfao..

[@julieannmyers8714]

Who are these "no one" & "everyone" & "we all"? I've hated & resisted this rot from the first days of Thatcher-Raygun... neoliberal economics always & very stridently came with a destructive "value" system. Saying "There is no such thing as society" & "There is no alternative" was so obviously retrograde & classist. Surely I have not been the only human on earth, Prof. Harvey, that was able to see where this destruction would lead us & has resisted EVER allowing my thinking to be captured by this insidious ideology.

[@ashdavies621]

me to Julie, he also stated 'China struggles with their oligarchy' so l asked were and how? he won't answer back. He said a lot of words, not bad? and with one allegation stabbed China in the back.

[@darrencampbell2260]

Well said.We are under the control of an oligarchy now.De-industrialisation, post modernism, global warming, woke .It will self destruct.

[@DJWESG1]

@@darrencampbell2260 Giddens juggernaut springs to mind.. except for the woke part. The rest has happened because everyone has been asleep for decades. Now ppl are awake to these issues, the powers that be want them to go back to their slumber

[@d.russellmoros7841]

@@ashdavies621 Um, do you know what a search engine is? Have you not heard of Jack Ma? He's part of this "oligarchy". How about the China Evergrande Group? Both have been in the news recently.

[@DJWESG1]

On point as ever👍👍

[@Insightts]

I could stay here all day learning from you Prof. David Harvey,thank you.

[@diosamurcielaga9418]

Do, it is wonderful.

[@magnushomestead3824]

So spot on as to the intentional manipulation of the popular mindset by Milton Friedman and the like. Very nice talk.

[@DeathToMockingBirds]

Summary: How to break away from Neo-Libearlism? Think of the habitus, be conscious that it comes from the ruling class... Ok... I'm conscious. Neo-Liberalism's still here. I would have loved me some revolution somewhere in there.

[@diosamurcielaga9418]

Yes, yes... thank you Prof Harvey for expressing this so clearly. Here in Mexico, where I am from, the "new" (neoliberal individualistic) discourse so often pops up and serves as a "natural obstacle" against more collective ideas and policies that we want to implement, it astounds me both how this plethora of "common sense" individualistic arguments seem to stand so well in people minds and allowing for millions of our people to remain in utter poverty, but also, it astounds me how from other aspects of life, not a clear and sharp economic argument, but rather the way people still remember pre-neoliberal terms and practices, local traditions, a bit of nostalgia and idealization, and some obvious material deficiencies in our regular lives, something like a anti-neoliberal emotion still persists and sometimes even pushes back. Greetings from Tenochtitlan.

[@zoktoberfest]

Excellent thoughts from an excellent mind

[@AoE2Replays]

Answer: we dont, its already too late!

[@d.russellmoros7841]

Yeah, like "thou shalt not steal"! Ingrained. Proletarians must challenge these ruling class ideas. Thanks for the overview and analysis David Harvey.

[@williamforrestall2161]

oh Boys ... Love old David ...WHAT A QUESTION !!! . How Do We Break from Neo-Liberalism? ... but WHO is the WE in this question??? ... Those WHO want to be a WE in some sort of 'collectivist" vision are entitled to by individual voluntary consent join such a We .. like the AMISH , the most successful socialist on earth do ... but there is no excuse for the use of coercion to inflict a collectivist "WE' on anyone in violation of basic human rights ( see UDHR 1948) ... As Charming as David is , he still is trapped in the "dog Chasing Tail" rhetoric of "marxist logic" , sad but true ....We all love someone like David , really we do ... but the sad fact that the acknowledged bone headed stupidity of Karl Marx’s "Labour theory of Value", as well as a host of other mind numbing pseudo economic nonsense that crazy Karl came up with it is hard to believe that anyone would waste a moment on Marxist nonsense, but they do. It is best to understand that Marxism, operates not as a rational structure, but as a ideological ( or rhetorical) framing devise which places the “Marxist” protagonist in an position to arbitrary “critique” or even impose their views on others. Sadly ideological framing is the essence of cultural colonialism and the most prevalent mode of colonization today. The fact is Marxism (and its many Cultural Leftist variants) appeals not to reason, but ego ... or more to the point the toxic egotism of those who seek to politically dominate others. Marxism can be best understood not as a rational set of beliefs but as a political expression of a collective Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a pathology that by all indications from his sad dysfunctional life Marx himself manifested. Marxism (and its Cultural Leftist variants) offer by its uniquely political rhetorical premise a source of Narcissistic Supply that attracts both the latent and manifest narcissist. As a politicized narcissistic source Marxism ( and its Cultural Leftist variants) offers the narcissist a ‘theoretical” rational or veil for their pursuit of a controlling, self-serving politics as it also explains their lack of empathy and consideration for others that, when left unchecked has resulted in the deaths of millions ( see Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin) . The politicized narcissists of the Cultural Left can be readily identified by their support of policies that erode or diminish the basic human rights (see UDHR 1948) www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights and dignity of others. Narcissists, Marxist and a broad range of Cultural Leftists are known to tell any lie, engage in a wide range of cultural gaslighting , subterfuge, deceit and even violence to politically influence, control or dominate the lives of others. Like ducks to water, narcissists are irresistibly attracted to the conceited, abusive and controlling “politics” of Marxism and its many “progressive” Cultural Leftist variants. Sad but True. Marxists as they promote their “save the world” campaigns have like most classical narcissists an excessive need for both admiration and domination of others. Those suffering from NPD are defined by their manipulative, selfish, patronizing, and demanding personality traits once again characteristics long associated with Marxist and the the Cultural Leftists and Karl Marx himself. I have never met a Marxist or Socialist that did not think that their “Sacred Rhetoric, Theories and Politics” gave them the SPECIAL right to erode or violate the rights of others. in clear violation of normative understandings of Human Rights ( see UDHR 1948). Acknowledging the reality of such narcissistic pathologies are the key to understanding Marxists and the Cultural Leftists that fall for the pseudo economic nonsense of Karl Marx. Its not “Reason” or their “Theories” its Narcissism that drives them. Three Questions the Cultural Leftists and other political narcissists can not answer… Three Questions that expose leftist self serving “solutions” Compared to What? At What Cost? What Hard Evidence Do You Have? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpKpaaWBlsSCndk

[@timunderwood4314]

How to separate financial power from political power. Obviously, the politicians must do this. They have to quit being the policy makers for the ruling class. Our future politicians, then, would be more like secular priests. How would these priests then guard against becoming corrupted?

[@timonnieveler1486]

I'm so sad that he doesn't actually define what he is talking about. He is extremely vague. Sadly not useful for good anti-capitalist practice.

[@derekwfrazier]

Conduct of conduct? Is that feedback? Same thing?

[@manuellanthaler2001]

I already felt as a young 5 year old kid this notion of neoliberalism floating around in our culture. And that it s fuking inhumane and depressing. What a coincidence that nowadays everyone is depressed and those who officially arent depressed just dont know it yet. Neoliberalism i guess does economic growth for a time but is sickening if done too long. Its like a football trainer burning his players out. It works perfectly for one season but in the next season the players are just burnt out.

[@iloveamerica4891]

ANSWER: Stop purchasing #Tesla or #Amazon or #Facebook or #Netflix or #Alibaba or #Bidu and on and on products. Buy products made in your #local #community and bank with your #local #community #bank where you live and everyone will be #happy and #wealthy too. and before purchasing alternate product check they are not owned by these parent companies. This is the only #proven #solution that works.

[@davidevans6618]

300 trillion dollar global debt ( approximation). Good luck with that.

[@Marco-wq7nn]

The idea of postmodernism is wrongly translated. If everything is relativistic then also the self is relativistic. If however postmodernism is abused to the idea that everybody has its own truth then the self becomes atomised and helps the idea of neo liberalism. Actually postmodernism says everything is a perspective, so ideas only exists in relation to something else, as a truth cannot fall back on ittself. That means that the relation itsself is paramount and means that a society can only be there if this is acknowledged. The relation isttself in that sense is not relativistic, as the relation is nessecary to have a perspective in the first place. Then the question is how is this sense of relation being managed. It must be balanced, otherwise a relativistic statement would contradict ittself.

[@pcraig50]

This is a brilliant analysis but the key is working out effective methods to disrupt the unconscious constraints contradictions and contentments of the neoliberal habits.

[@iloveamerica4891]

Seems Google AI engine keeps auto-deleting comments based on keywords

[@Booer]

13:10 Amanda Cooper family values book reference

[@anhedonic-voting]

Thank you🌎✊🌹🗽

[@Jimbowholivesinsoup]

this is awesome. we need hear more people like him. Or connect all these people. He says, and makes so many ideas, concepts to put your mind around.. thats great.. made me think about so many figures, things going on..Made my sad sleeping mind awake again.. we need some hash tag or idk.. really good 5/5 I send a chocolate to this man !

[@markmccormack1796]

Don't forget Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The policy implementors for the ruling class.

[@bigbillhaywood1415]

The Powell memo kicked it all offm

[@iamstartower]

🍅🍅🍅... You don't, you understand it and use it to your advantage...

[@LongDefiant]

I've been trying to express this thought to other Communists like myself online. Personally I think the most radical, revolutionary thing that you can do under capitalism is to start your own business. The rejection of capitalist relationships starts with each one of us. Jobs are for losers. I refuse to be a loser, and I refuse to make any other person a loser. I will work independently, with other people who work independently.

[@LongDefiant]

@Krzysiek Mazanek Every person who refuses to take a J O B reduces the power of the ruling class by that much. As individuals it seems like it wouldn't matter that much, but if thousands or tens of thousands of us actively reject capitalist relationships it will start to move the dial

[@iamstartower]

@Shnarfy McShmoombles rather be a tyrant than a lamb... why would anyone accept suffering when it can be easily transfered... watch closely what ideology have you been fed and make sure it works in your favor.

[@ethanstump]

​@@LongDefiant yes, the way to move past being a slave is being a slave master!🥴🤡 the people here don't want to be a French king ridden with syphilis, but to move to better societies that AREN'T tyrannical. but apparently you just love the ancien regime.

[@ethanstump]

@@iamstartower yes, the way to move past being a slave is being a slave master!🥴🤡 the people here don't want to be a French king ridden with syphilis, but to move to better societies that AREN'T tyrannical. but apparently you just love the ancien regime.

[@pipster1891]

I don't agree that Americans rate Biden so low because they're only thinking about what he has done for them only. Plenty of people either don't like him anyway - Republicans - and plenty of people don't like him because of what he hasn't done for any ordinary people. Most people don't think, "A universal healthcare system is good because it's good for ME" or "Improvement of infrastructure is good because it improves things just for me" or "I'm against free childcare only because I don't have children".