Let’s begin with the Neo-Marxist version, as presented by famous British sociologist David Harvey:
Listening to Harvey makes you wonder if he ever heard of the disaster brought about by Marxism over Eastern Europe. As a Brit, he has the luxury of speculating of the theoretical goods of the Marxist solution. We know already, from experience, that that is no solutions at all. Although he seems to have a point, his blindness to the failed Marxist utopia makes you want to move to the right.
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Let us watch now a neo-Liberal critique of Harvey’s analysis (there is no information available about who is speaking).
Listening to this guy praise greed as economic drive (he seems to have no ethical organ, whatsoever – a pure breed capitalist) and the supposed sacred nature of the market that self-regulates the economy, makes you wonder if he lives in reality and if he has any idea of the corruption of the human nature. When you hear this kind of rubbish, it makes you move inevitably to the left.
As usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle, but it seems that no one was able yet to formulate a solution that actually works in the present global economic system.
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