Great analysis. The neoliberals understand they have to couch all their coercion and plunder in 'progressive' language. The traditional right-wing rhetoric has lost its cache and acceptability in public discourse. Now you can spin a surveillance system which will help paralyze the working class by calling it a "UBI", and the neoLs know that any authentic criticism towards it will be dismissed as heartless capitalist apologetics ('how can you deny people a basic income?!'). It's similar to calling all the truckers "Nazis".
BTW just saw this quote from Morales:
Evo Morales: "...I continue having doubts about …corona virus. I read…a report from the IMF that said…it’s important to reduce unnecessary population, & who are they? The old, the disabled, poor people, the working class. It looks like, brothers & sisters, that this pandemic is part of a biological war. Let the poor die, the old die, the disabled die.. It looks like… this pandemic is part of a biological war…”
Great analysis. The neoliberals understand they have to couch all their coercion and plunder in 'progressive' language. The traditional right-wing rhetoric has lost its cache and acceptability in public discourse. Now you can spin a surveillance system which will help paralyze the working class by calling it a "UBI", and the neoLs know that any authentic criticism towards it will be dismissed as heartless capitalist apologetics ('how can you deny people a basic income?!'). It's similar to calling all the truckers "Nazis".
BTW just saw this quote from Morales:
Evo Morales: "...I continue having doubts about …corona virus. I read…a report from the IMF that said…it’s important to reduce unnecessary population, & who are they? The old, the disabled, poor people, the working class. It looks like, brothers & sisters, that this pandemic is part of a biological war. Let the poor die, the old die, the disabled die.. It looks like… this pandemic is part of a biological war…”
There's room for hope, I think. The class war is global, and the people may win it with victories in places like Guadeloupe.