NEOLIBERALISM, NOT ECONOMICS,
IS ABOUT PROFITING FROM SCARCITY
many of y’all speak of economics as if were a subset of finance and a necessity based on precarity. this is not and was not how Economics was defined well into the 1970s. the break came with Reaganism, austerity politics but even worse, the enshrining in the Federal Reserve of Randian cultist, Alan Greenspan.
it is because of Alan Greenspan and his subversion of capitalism that many of y’all equate economics with scarcity… 🧵
am not turning this into an intro course, but if you are studying economics and have yet to read The Wealth Of Nations and have yet to study the economists involved in developing USA economic policy since FDR, but especially for Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter, then you do not have any idea of how violent was the break from a labor-based view of the economy to a market-finance one with Reagan and thereafter.
most people don’t even know of this break and that’s why… 🧵
the definition of inflation for the working classes, people like you and me, is completely different from capitalists and their bootlicking political managerial classes.
because when you decide that the economy is based on capitalists needs, not the labor of ordinary people and their capacity to buy what they need to sustain themselves and thrive, YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE SCARCITY… 🧵
capitalists living off dividends and controlling the economy of a nation are like the kings and queens and nobility of yore that squeezed and squeezed the peasantry to support their bigger hairs, bigger castles, bigger wars ―until in one country many last saw the blood pooling at the guillotines.
ADAM SMITH WROTE THE WEALTH OF NATIONS FOR A MOMENT MUCH LIKE THE ONE WE ARE IN NOW
a terrible time of inequality when engineered scarcity was thought of as the basis of the economy…🧵
he was a professor of MORALS & ETHICS.
let that sink in: the dude who supposedly invented capitalism (or at least the arguments for it), did so to prove, WITH EVIDENCE, that all European monarchs’ holdings alone were NOT the wealth of their nations.
he even gives in the book a rationalization for the abolition of slavery by capitalizing on the externalities of free laborers.
the thing is, he never uses the word economics. only economy or political economy… 🧵
this is important because this is the problem with how the United States, with the Chicago Boys, completely upended the concept of national economic activity. it was not something to observe, it was something to engineer and manage.
Milton Friedman, gaslighter extraordinaire and big daddy of neoliberals everywhere, believed so much in free markets that he high-fived the assassination of Salvador Allende and hand-picked Pinochet for his buddy Kissinger…
MILTON FRIEDMAN’S FREE MARKETS WERE BULLSHIT.
the Chicago Boys were never, ever about managing economic activity for all; just moving the goal posts of abundance for only one social class.
the coup against Allende and the subsequent unraveling of Latin American economies that ended with Clinton bailing out the same banks that 10 yrs later took hostage the world economy in 2008, prove neoliberalism, NOT economics is about engineering scarcity by all means necessary…🧵
ALL THIS TO SAY
stop parroting the talking points of the oppressor.
there is enough everything to feed, clothe, house, heal, educate, employ and even “start up” not just every human, but generations to come.
the problem are the .1% who don’t want that to happen.
those are the people who make money blocking universal health care and forcing us into insurance companies that are nothing but eugenics-as-a-service.
that’s why when CEOs get shot, nobody bats an eye.
the scarcity is false./ 🧵
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
Matt Godden