Le Profit avant l'homme

In Profit Over People, Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide. By examining the contradictions between the democratic and market principles proclaimed by those in power and those actually practiced, Chomsky critiques the tyranny of the few that restricts the public arena and enacts policies that vastly increase private wealth, often with complete disregard for social and ecological consequences. Combining detailed historical examples and uncompromising criticism, Chomsky offers a profound sense of hope that social activism can reclaim people's rights as citizens rather than as consumers, redefining democracy as a global movement, not a global market.… (more)

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Chomsky schreibt engagiert, stellenweise auch polemisch, doch immer lesbar und allgemein verständlich. Das Material an Zahlen und Daten, das er vorlegt, ist erschreckend. Das tatsächlich Spannende sind jedoch die sich dahinter verbergenden politischen Muster, die Chomsky freilegt. Selbst wer den

Neoliberalismus durchschaut zu haben glaubt, wird in diesem Buch Neues finden.

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LibraryThing member wonderperson

Chomsky shows us how Big Business and Government collude in private to prevent democracy from happening and impose Free Market Capitalism which forces people into low wage insecure jobs, no human rights, fucked up work-life balances, no benefits etc. This is to facciliate what Naomi Klein-another

leading figure of the Left called 'Wild Capital', and 'Wild' Capital, if it is to flow freely between Nation States, must be able to do so unimpeded by such things as Human Rights, Labour Rights, Democracy etc.
The most distressing aspect of all this is how Chomsky shows us how the above subvert and prevent Democracy whilst giving an appearance of Democracy by holding Elections which are as he points out just 'Electoral Exercises' rather than true exercises in People Power and the People, he points out, are stripped of their powers and controlled by 'men of superior quality' (probably a Platonic thing as in the Republic?) who know how to govern [properly] the 'rabble hordes' or vulgar masses as he points out.
This book, and the rest of Chomsky's Ouvre therefore is ESSENTIAL Reading for all those seeking to understand the landscape/s they are forced to inhabit and the need to overcome them,which again Chomsky shows us to give us hope that the Rich and Unaccountable Agenda setters CAN be called to account and not just ride roughshod of the wills of the peoples.

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LibraryThing member Paul_S

Try as a might I can't really find any holes in his arguments except of course he always sees any socialists as some benign creatures with nothing but charity in their hearts and not just the other side of the same power coin.

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