Comments on: Birth of a new movement: Occupy goes global http://www.redpepper.org.uk/birth-of-a-new-movement/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Syzygy http://www.redpepper.org.uk/birth-of-a-new-movement/#comment-21250 Syzygy Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:17:52 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=5420#comment-21250 ‘According to David Harvey, within a brief period, neoliberalism was co-opted by the economic elites and was essentially used to ‘privatise the commons for a second time’; a vehicle to restore the power and the wealth of the power elites back to that condition which they had enjoyed prior to World War II and the creation of the Welfare State….. a kind of one sided neoliberalism, where government intervention is bad if it would protect labour or the environment, but government intervention is good if it will help economic elites.’

http://think-left.org/2011/10/14/capitalism-neoliberalism-plutonomy-and-neo-feudalism/

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1

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