Hudson Orwells Some Economic Terms: None Too Soon!

[Jan Klimkowski]

The neoliberal ideal of free markets is thus basically that of a bank robber or embezzler, wishing for a world without police so as to be sufficiently free to siphon off other peoples’ money without constraint.

Precisely.

However, for Them to pull off this trick in Europe and North America will require some sort of "unifying cause" that ordinary people can be persuaded to believe in.

The "War on Terror" just doesn't cut it.

So, They will need another, far more fundamental psyop.

It may be frightening: eg a Tesla weapon style vaporization of something symbolic.

Or transcendent: eg a new Messiah for the Twenty-First Century.

The Chicago Boys in Chile realized that markets free for predatory finance and insider privatization could only be imposed at gunpoint. These free-marketers closed down every economics department in Chile, every social science department outside of the Catholic University where the Chicago Boys held sway. Operation Condor arrested, exiled or murdered tens of thousands of academics, intellectuals, labor leaders and artists. Only by totalitarian control over the academic curriculum and public media backed by an active secret police and army could “free markets” neoliberal style be imposed. The resulting privatization at gunpoint became an exercise in what Marx called “primitive accumulation” – seizure of the public domain by political elites backed by force. It is a free market William-the-Conqueror or Yeltsin-kleptocrat style, with property parceled out to the companions of the political or military leader.

Sigh.

Yes - there's always the fascist option....