marcelo602 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

American interventions in, not only in South America, but all over Latin America has begun very very long before the 1970's.

Marly61 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Please give examples.

MarxBakuninMe (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"pretty much no-one outside of government is happy with the way things are! :)"I think Wall Street is pretty ecstatic.

DengarRoth (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I've had to read excerpts of this or other works of Harvey's every semester for four years straight now.it's nice to have an audio clip on youtube

OperationNorthwoods (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

New labor in uK is actually right wing party says John Pilger.labor is old name in old party...but path of party like many others like that have changed like incomes

OperationNorthwoods (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

it is that already.....since before 1913

jsgdk (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

neoliberalism quickly turns to fascism.. too much personal freedom makes people harder to control.. much better cattle if fearful of the authorities.. and neoliberalism is all about cattle. On a side note: nothing Al-qaeda had done can rival the terror in south america perpetrated/supported by the Goverment since the 70s and forward.

danieleriskay (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

""Less government" and "free market" are just slogans used to destroy social services"The social services of the 1960s and 1970s were worthy of being destroyed.

pilkingtonphil (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

One other point, for those who point to China not being neo-liberal due to it's oppressive, anti-rule of law form of legal contract, one of the very first things that Harvey points out is that THE VERY FIRST ATTEMPT AT NEO-LIBERALISM WAS TRIED IN PINOCHET'S CHILE!!! Of course this is far from the first time where liberalism has used an anti-democratic authoritarian system, or elements thereof, to promote free-trade, see in this regard post-war Japan and Germany...

pilkingtonphil (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

...manner comes across as relatively weak and vaguely defined, in fact it really seems to resemble those that try to support dubious regimes of a bygone era by claiming "Well, that's not what Stalin/Mao/Castro intended". The irony about Harvey is that, although his argument is definetly more radical and more clear-cut than almost anyone else today, he's essentially coming from a center-left position and arguing for fairly basic Kautskyesque social-democratic change, it's all radically pragmatic!