George Monbiot on replacing neoliberalism

Journalist and author George Monbiot on the task of replacing neoliberalism, reinvigorating democracy and averting climate breakdown.

[@vidiveniviciDCLXVI]

I remember in my teens, I lived in Devonport in Plymouth, they had a huge public swimming pool, every summer we'd be down there every weekend, engaging with a huge community and it was amazing, some of my best memories as a human let alone as a child.

[@chuckkottke]

Sounds like fun, and a wonderful community commons! Here we all headed down to Newton Lake, sand beaches and warm water in summer, our local swimming lake. I met a gal from Plymouth, she's a wonderful artist now residing in Arizona. Good people come from your area 🌞.

[@ledgeastend07]

Yanis Varoufakis of Diem25 has a lot of very similar ideas. Absolute common sense from George. Definitely get my vote. System we’ve got serves only the few. And represents only a few.

[@theperson6929]

Well said.

[@SlackBallSack]

If I had to put one guy in charge right now it'd be George M.

[@moulinduviaduc]

What sense George. This is a future.... resource based. Yes

[@GlobeHackers]

Resource-based economy - yes!

[@chuckkottke]

Maybe a land value tax on increases in land value paid by the seller upon sale of the land, adjusted for inflation. My concern is what this might do to small organic farms in Wisconsin, usually cooperative or family farms.🌄 Great idea though, and I am in favor with George's thinking on all the other areas he talked about.

[@bgiv2010]

Mutual Aid. Prefiguration. Dual Power. Permaculture. De-growth AKA De-waste. Building the Commons. They're all right here! Pick one!!!

[@glenmccarthy8482]

Brilliant analysis , but we have crossed the rubicon when it comes to global warming .The positive feedback loops have been set in motion.

[@adampowell5376]

Yanis Varoufakis seems to have a lot of good ideas. I wish I could do more to help the post neoliberal world.

[@ozzy5146]

"community" revolves around "kinship," not some version of government planning.

[@GlobeHackers]

Can "the people" afford to have an imagination? Can they afford to get their narrative out there? Will "their" narrative sit well the people on the other side who love their narrative? One group's obviously amazing narrative is another group's distasteful and dangerous propaganda. Those of us who enjoy reading have known various narratives for decades and yet here we are talking about narratives. I fancy the ideas but a fireside chat won't get us there. Organize, organize, organize...

[@AudioPervert1]

Anarcho Syndicalism ... He is talking about. Read Rudolf Rockers theory and practice of ....

[@eameece]

I see this course as a more long-term solution that will climax its momentum in the 2040s. Meanwhile we still need a green keynesianism to confront and defeat neoliberal deregulation and inequality now destroying our lives, our climate and our democracy, and that means voting for left politicians proposing these policies, as we also lay the groundwork for this more local work and more democracy. But now neoliberalism is on the ballot, and it's almost entirely a partisan choice.

[@nthperson]

The grand theory has existed for a very long time, and the restoration story is right there to be told. The story was told in the late 19th century by Henry George, and his story almost changed the course of history. But only almost. George Monbiot taps into Henry George's narrative, not totally, but substantially. As Spock would agree, the public collection of the rent of land via land value taxation is only logical.

[@davidlloyd3116]

Can you run for PM?

[@toyotaprius79]

They will call him an IRA antisemite communist

[@michaelhudson5287]

what do you think of DieM25 George ?

[@fluorescentblack4336]

How to I find more information about common land and the history of land management? I really don't think that humans are the problem on this planet it's the greed of a few driving every kind of exploitation to the point of destroying the biosphere for profit. If we returned to a system of common land ownership with a true husbandry with the land as opposed to seeing it as something that can generate profit we will live in a global garden. There is more than enough for all

[@emmamushroom257]

You should look up the enclosures.

[@propositionjohnston]

George needs to work on his PR. He seems to always feature in videos which have 5k views rather than 5million reviews. He needs to work on that.

[@justinjameson8767]

You have fool's-and-fiends on each-and-every front-and-floor politics is a circus and economics is a casino

[@justinjameson8767]

Mark blyth and george monbiot and other's are right on publicly passively discussing keynesian/marxoid social democratic liberal/libertarian capitalism which in essence is regulatory/interventionist capitalism state/government/public-sector capitalism and welfarist capitalism which is where-and-what many-and-most segment's of society are at-and-want since feudalism was spiritualist materialism capitalism is realist materialism and marxist/marxian socialism with marxist/marxian communism in mind is idealist materialism

[@lilynathan7308]

NEW NOAM CHOMSKY

[@GlobeHackers]

Those shoes are a size too large for George. However, I am very happy he's here spreading these ideas.

[@emmmmmmma92]

Not even close. He’s an advocate of “humanitarian intervention”

[@robertocalledecresta2312]

hello

[@inferno7181]

WE REPLACE LIBERALISM WITH LIBERTARIANISM, NOT COMMUNISM.

[@inferno7181]

Lee Mouatt we have also tried lazzes faires in Hong Kong and it works well. One of the faults with libertarianism is that it requires a fairly well educated population to prosper. Libertarianism is not "an"com. That's just plain up retarded.

[@inferno7181]

Lee Mouatt Lazzes faires hasn't produced poverty. When everything (even wages) are competitive, only the best options are allowed to continue being active participants in the economy. And no, your rich-poor contrast graph doesn't prove this as that graph only shows to what extent a nation has developed. Both poor wages and rich wages increase when an economy develops. It just happens that the rich get richer quicker than the poor. The rich getting richer doesn't make the poor poorer. These "civilised countries" you speak of. What are they? The UK states libertarianism is all about freedom. The US believes this too. Hell, every country with a connection to the internet believes this.

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

Libertarianism leads to gangsterism by the richest! It's neoliberalism on steroids. Ultra-individualism is not the way to go, unfortunately.

[@zeebee8527]

Libertarianism is a left wing ideology, they stole the term from socialists. Look up the history of the ideology. Libertarian capitalism is just neo-feudalism.

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

inferno Laissez faire has produced poverty - again.