• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I dunno if I were in Germany I wouldn’t be so smug about electing politicians that prevent a slide into fascism.

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      4 months ago

      Are you actually trying to make a point or did you simply want to be hostile.

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        4 months ago

        My point is that it’s not as simple as setting “common sense” neoliberal rules when the corporations actively evade them. The problem in the US is also more complicated than you’re making it, here we need to basically redo a court which is full of people on lifetime appointments in order to roll back their ruling that political corruption is basically free speech.

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          4 months ago

          The stuff I described was not a neoliberal rule at all, they abhor any kind of regulation that’s not securing property rights for the affluent.

          This “regulate away market failures to approach the ideal of the free market better” thing is ordoliberalism. An actual economic theory I don’t fully agree with but which is mostly sane, and is, most of all, unlike neoliberalism not pure class war. Ordoliberalism e.g. considers welfare necessary so that the labour market isn’t stacked in favour of the employers.