Saturday, April 07, 2007

Reforming the Reformers

"This is the strategy of neoliberalism. It is a two-stage process. The first stage is to make use of centralized state power to promote insider dealings and give a patina of legitimacy to the theft of public resources. .... The second stage involves closing ranks to prevent anyone else from doing this, once the prizes have been handed out. A campaign is mounted against government power to reduce and even eliminate the state's ability to exert a countervailing force on the propertied oligarchy. The narrow oligarchy becomes society's new centralized planners, replacing the state."
What happened in Russia? Is it happenning in Lebanon as well? Are our fears real or will this idea be branded a 'conspiracy theory'?

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