Hindu Far-Right and ‘Left’ Politics in India
I In India, the ‘left politics’ assumes significance in the context of neoliberal globalisation and the political ascendancy of the Hindu far-right. Here the left politics does not mean politics…
Neoliberalism
Indian elites ride high on preventive counterrevolution
As on the expected lines, tech-driven neoliberalism that stands for a market-driven consciousness (of the state and the self) wrecked widespread havoc on India’s welfare state and social security, the…
Three and a half decades of victory of neo-liberals
1 If we look at the journey of neoliberalism/privatisation in India for the last three and a half decades, we find that the game has been completely in the hands…
Tyranny of Free Market
The market, as a social and economic institution, is fundamentally a process designed to facilitate human life by bringing consumers and producers together. It ensures economic activities serve the social…
The Bloody Path of Alberto Fujimori’s Neoliberalism
CAMBRIDGE – The script of Latin American politics too often reads like a “dictator novel,” and on September 11, another chapter drew to a close with the death of Alberto…
Missionaries of the Mont Pelerin Society in India
The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is organising its 2024 Biennial Congress and General Meeting from September 22 to 26 in New Delhi, India, with the goal of advancing freedom and…
Neocon Realists and Global Neoliberals Dead on Arrival: A Theoretical Autopsy
Orientation Who are Neocons and Neoliberals today? In the collapsing Mordor society of today we have two contending foreign policy theoretical tendencies, the Neocon realists and the Neoliberal globalists. The…
Implications of Dr. Manmohan Singh’s interview
An interview of former finance minister and former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has been published in the English daily ‘The Indian Express’ (8 September 2023). Information about the journalist/journalists…
Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster
It’s official, according to a speech by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the United States is jumping off the neoliberal globalization bandwagon (a root cause of domestic extremism) and it…
Neoliberalism’s GDP Hoax and its Costly Consequences: Time for a different ‘Development’ paradigm?
It is true that economic growth – meaning rising GDP - is one of the key indicators of rising prosperity in a society though as the Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz…
Neoliberalism, Stress, and Sex
Writing about sex in the year 2022 is not at all, like writing about sex in the late 1960s - the time of student revolution, and 1970s - the time…
Our Future vs. Neoliberalism
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies In country after country around the world, people are rising up to challenge entrenched, failing neoliberal political and economic systems, with mixed…
From 1980s Neoliberalism to the ‘New Normal’
Sold under the pretence of a quest for optimising well-being and ‘happiness’, capitalism thrives on the exploitation of peoples and the environment. What really matters is the strive to maintain…
A Brief history of Neo-imperialism-History and Methods
Till the 1960's, Neoliberalism had the same status in economics as Wahhabism (a supremacist, fundamentalist and intolerant version of Islam) had in Islam. (1). How it became the guiding principle of Western countries…
A Rejoinder to Chetan Bhagat’s Neoliberal Prescriptions
Chetan Bhagat’s article “Wanted: A bill to fix Indian manufacturing” - published on March 27, 2021 by “The Times of India” - is a paradigmatic example of neoliberal oversimplification. While…
Neoliberalism and State in the Age of Pandemic
The doxa of neoliberalism as the post second world war dominant ideology spreads utilitarianism, narrow visions of life, individualistic values, and competitive-essentialist knowledge traditions that destroy the emancipatory and collective…
Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Is At Our Throats
The invisible hand As everyone knows, Adam Smith invented the theory that individual self-interest is, and ought to be, the main motivating force of human economic activity, and that this,…
Neoliberalism and its criminal confessions
The pandemic has shaken up the neoliberalism as an economic project of capitalism. The economic architecture of neoliberalism based on austerity, liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation has failed to provide…
Industrialisation, Neo-Liberalism And The Pandemic
The human civilization, as we know it, is facing its worst crisis. One that has bought the global village to a standstill, baffled world leaders, claimed thousands of lives and…
Neoliberalism and the Indian Educational Apparatus
India is currently reeling under the deleterious effects of decades of neoliberalism. It is increasingly becoming clear that the financial imperatives of neoliberalism have severely subverted social infrastructures which could…
Netflix, Chattichoru and Chumpak……
Late capitalism is all about cultural metamorphosis. The intriguing share of pie is the choices of adaptation, resuscitation or both in a 3rd world economy. The cultural envisage of neo…
Neoliberal Psychological Romanticism: From The Primal Scream To The Collective Unconscious – Part II
Orientation In Part I of this article, I begin by grounding neoliberal psychology in the political and economic reality of neoliberalism between 1970 to 2020. First, we discussed the historical origins of…
Neoliberal Psychological Realism: From Barbie Dolls To Hook-Up Sex
Orientation In this two-part article, I trace facets of neoliberal psychology over a 50 years period, from 1970 to present. The first facet of neoliberal psychology is the “realist” phase…
Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism and Right-wing Politics
The world is facing its deepest crisis after the world wars. The legitimacy of Westphalian international systems and their post-war reincarnations are falling apart. The political parties are losing the…
The Illusions of Bourgeois Democracy
Democracy is a product of struggles and sacrifices of the working classes. The October revolution, French revolution in Europe and anti-colonial struggles in Africa, Asia and Americas shaped democracy. The…
Neoliberal Totalitarianism And The Social Contract
Neoliberal Totalitarianism and the Social Contract Abstract Analyzing aspects of the rightwing populist tide arising largely in reaction to the pluralistic-diversity model of neoliberalism, this essay examines the evolving social…
Neoliberalism And The Chicanery Of Victim-Blaming
It is an indisputable fact that the British colonizers built roads and railways in India, they established missionary schools, colleges and universities, they enforced English common law and the goal…
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