In the article at http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21584, Kim Scipes writes that >The case of the United States is particularly useful to examine because its elites have projected themselves as "first among equals" of the globalization project (Bello, 2006), and it is the place of the Global North where the neo-liberal project has been pursued most resolutely and has advanced the farthest.<
is this true? my impression is that the neoliberal project has been pursued most resolutely where resistance to it has been weakest. For example, the World Bank and the IMF have been running roughshod over sub-Saharan Africa for decades. It's Bolivia, not the U.S., where the privatization of water supplies was tried. (Of course, it _has_ been privatized in the US in the sense that marketeers convinced many of us to buy bottled water using scares about pollution in the public water supply. But we can still drink from the tap with minimal cost.) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
