Neoliberalism

The 21st century socialism is an idea that came over in 1996 and took relevance when the president elected for Venezuela in 1999, called Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, started talking about it in a speech in 2005, referring to the way it would benefit the country and the way that it would improve the economy levels by that time. This variety of socialism grew up with foundation in Carl Marx theory but taking into consideration the changes that have gone through the world in the last century. The four…

Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic), and he backed Germany's welfare cuts in 2003. In the South, the International Monetary Fund forced market reforms on indebted post-Communist countries, and some former Communist elites proved eager converts to neoliberalism. Only a handful of nominally Communist states now remain: North Korea and Cuba, and the more capitalist China, Vietnam and Laos. A new left might then succeed in uniting the losers, both white-collar and blue-collar, in the new economic…

Globalization refers to the worldwide scope of economic growth through integration of the global economy created by free trade, capital and labour markets. Globalization has subsisted from the commencement of humanity in practices such as the spread of religion and ideas, however its very nature has significantly altered its process and means of distribution. Globalization now nurtures interconnectedness, democracy and strength between nations. On the other hand, with such forces between…

Lima, the capital of Peru failed to render safe water services to all of its residents, especially those with low-incomes. The author stated that around 8.5% of the residents receive water from water trucks, 3.9% from public fountains and 4.3% from boreholes or watercourses. The piped water service is available for only a few hours every day and around 90% of the sewage remains untreated in many parts of the city. The country has become one of the main laboratories in Latin America for…

Media Shaming, Press Pacification, The Power Elite and Socialization The integration of views of misrepresented communities have been determined in many instances as ways of promoting collective identity in the process of normalizing their experiences within a given setting. However, the kind of globalization that is taking place today works ona different level. On the one hand it supposes that the necessity of promoting diverse views is informed by the idea that people are interacting on a…

The reading, “Kicking Away the Ladder: Neoliberalism and the Real History of Capitalism” by Chang Ha-Joon explains about how countries developed. In addition, Ha-joon’s article compares todays countries with past countries and discusses strategies that can help the future develop. An example of countries comparison is “United States was at a level of economic development similar to the of today’s Mexico” (Kicking Away the Ladder, 6). Similarly, Philip McMichael’s article “Development Project”…

understandings of the world and autonomy. He uses the work of philosophers from the 17th and 19th centuries to situate Eating Anxiety historically, and to understand how what he calls “digestive subjectivity” can help us navigate globalization, neoliberalism, global inequality, and democracy in the modern world, as well as our understandings of modern liberalism. Digestive subjectivity relies on the idea that food and digestion disrupt the dominant discourses associated with liberal institutions…

The two main branches of liberalism that rose during the 20th century were reform liberalism and neoliberalism. Reform liberalism argues that governments should play an active role in promoting the freedom of citizens and the development laws that support and maintain the rights and freedoms of every individual within society (Mastin). Neo-Liberalism believes…

One frequently discussed implication of neoliberalism is a movement towards collaborative community processes as an alternative to traditional top down resource management and regulatory actions by the state. Some suggest that in certain contexts, devolved government processes, such as collaborative or community management, allow powerful capital interests to co-opt democratic processes for further accumulation while circumventing traditional regulatory enforcement (Purcell 2009). These devolved…

A New York billboard brought viral controversy in Lower East Side in late February of 2011, after residents of Soho felt highly offended by an ad Life Always placed at the intersection of Sixth Ave. and Watts St. The billboard featured a young, innocent looking, African American girl with a quote stated above her picture: “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” Life Always, an anti abortion organization from Texas, defended their billboard by stating, “The intent of…