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Alternatives to Neoliberal Capitalism

Schmidt, Ingo
http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4549

Publisher:  Against the Current
Date Written:  01/01/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

Neoliberal capitalism today has become unpopular, but imagining alternatives is difficult nonetheless.

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Sustaining large-scale mobilizations over extended periods of time is impossible, but it should be possible to keep core groups of activists together who reflect on past experiences and strategize for the future. If the goal doesn't go beyond getting protestors out in the street again, a new catchy rallying cry might be good enough. Yet more is needed to build an alternative force to challenge and eventually replace the neoliberal bloc, which is fractured by its own internal contradictions but remains in place.

This doesn't mean that simple slogans should be replaced by baroque theories. What is needed, though, are analyses that help to identify the weak spots in the neoliberal bloc and formulate demands focusing on these spots. These demands, in turn, should appeal to people whose discontent with neoliberalism is coming from different directions, but also allow their convergence towards concrete common goals, part of a longer chain of further demands and goals pointing toward a markedly different vision of an economy and society.
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