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September 11, 1973: The start of the global neoliberal dictatorship

September 11, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the U.S.-backed military coup in Chile that ousted democratically-elected Salvador Allende in 1973 and led to a 17-year repressive dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. Chile became the first lab-rat of neoliberalism . Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys advise dictator Pinochet to kill the state and privatize everything. Chile was occupied by big cartels, US interests companies, people suffered from poverty and from Pinochet's cruel regime. Neoliberal dictatorship in Greece update:  Samaras under suspicion as he plots to sell BoG subsidiary to American associates

The self-reproducing language of economic cynicism

by system failure Despite the fact that the stance of people in Greece and Europe seems to change, rather slowly, against concepts which in the relatively recent past have been considered almost taboo, such as the concepts of collectivity and solidarity, the systemic establishment uses all available means to keep the culture of extreme individualism and brute economic pragmatism undamaged. This culture which spread rapidly over the past two decades in Greece and in the Western world - perhaps in a different form from country to country due to local particularities - serves fully the interests of the economic elites. Extreme individualism and economic pragmatism, were not just the main components of this peculiar culture, but ended up to be the basic building blocks of modern rationalism of Western societies, what one could name as Western neo-rationalism. It is characteristic that in Greece of financial crisis, the language of economic cynicism which propag

H αυτο-αναπαραγόμενη γλώσσα του οικονομικού κυνισμού

του system failure Παρά το γεγονός ότι η στάση των ανθρώπων σε Ελλάδα και Ευρώπη φαίνεται ότι αλλάζει, έστω αργά, απέναντι σε έννοιες που στο σχετικά πρόσφατο παρελθόν θεωρούνταν σχεδόν ταμπού, όπως οι έννοιες της συλλογικότητας και της αλληλεγγύης, το συστημικό κατεστημένο χρησιμοποιεί όλα τα διαθέσιμα μέσα, προκειμένου να διατηρήσει αλώβητη την κουλτούρα του ακραίου ατομικισμού και του ωμού οικονομικού πραγματισμού. Η κουλτούρα αυτή εξαπλώθηκε ταχύτατα τις τελευταίες τουλάχιστον δύο δεκαετίες στην Ελλάδα και γενικότερα στον Δυτικό κόσμο - ίσως με διαφορετική μορφή από χώρα σε χώρα λόγω τοπικών ιδιομορφιών – εξυπηρετώντας στο ακέραιο τα συμφέροντα των οικονομικών ελίτ. Ο ακραίος ατομικισμός και ο οικονομικός πραγματισμός, δεν αποτέλεσαν απλώς τα κύρια συστατικά μιας ιδιότυπης κουλτούρας, αλλά κατέληξαν να αποτελούν τα βασικά δομικά στοιχεία του σύγχρονου ορθολογισμού των Δυτικών κοινωνιών, κάτι που θα μπορούσαμε να αποκαλέσουμε ως Δυτικό νεο-ορθολογισμό. Ε

Latest news from the occupied Greece: Troika dictates the closing of three state industries through an email! Neoliberal dictatorship in full action!

“ The representatives of Greece’s lenders rejected the government proposal about the three defense industries LARKO, EAS and ELVO. IMF’s Thomsen and the other kids demanded that the three industries close immediately without compensation for the fired personnel and to be thoroughly restructured on a total new basis.” “ The Troikans’ point of view about the present and the future of the country’s defense industries was clear and brief: it was submitted to the Greek Finance Ministry via an e-mail!” http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2013/09/03/troika-demands-the-sudden-death-of-greeces-defense-industries/

Self-management societies vs anarcho-capitalism: The new global war of ideologies?

by system failure The last global economic crisis has brought the Left as well as the extreme nationalism in the front line. The rise of the Left in Greece and elsewhere came as an answer to the corrosion of the European Socialism and its absorption from neoliberalism. Current government coalition in Greece consisting from the two parties in power for the last 40 years, the right-wing, now neoliberal, party Nea Dimokratia and the "Socialist" party PASOK, is the best proof of this fact. Despite the fact that the rise of the Left and extreme nationalism creates a new front of intense ideological conflict, this is not something which prevents the dissolving of the old ideological lines. Therefore, we are now in a period where the old ideological lines are blurring, and various conflicts cannot prevent this fact. This is something which has to do mainly with the fail of the Left to construct a new autonomous language relieved from capitalistic terms, and the full capitu