am I alone in dating the very beginning of the neoliberal wave of Thatcher, Reagan, Bush #1, Clinton, Bush #2, and Obama to 1973, with Pinochet?
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:32 AM, robert mckee <[email protected]> wrote: > The Thatcher period lasted from 1979 to 1990. Much is made of > ‘Thatcherism’ as some counter-revolutionary force on behalf of Capital, > widely acclaimed by its supporters as saving Britain for capitalism , or > turning it around from disaster. But the reality was is that Thatcherism > was just one strand of a general sea change in economic strategy forced on > Capital by the crisis that major capitalist economies had got into by the > end of the 1970s....Thatcher did her job of destroying millions of Britons’ > jobs, incomes and lives with enthusiasm, dedication and arrogance. But in > the interests of capitalism, there was no alternative (TINA). > > > http://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/thatcher-there-was-no-alternative/ > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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