The Left Has Better Things to Do Than Watch Liberals Scratch Their Heads

http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/09/the-left-has-better-things-to-do-than-watch-liberals-scratch-their-heads/
Date Written:  2018-11-10
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2018
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23059

Drawing from author David Harvey's work "The Ways of the World", Munson examines how Liberal-democracy has changed when the nucleus of capitalism shifted in the 1970's from the production of goods to the production of 'signs'. He further examines how 'neo-liberalism' is now grappling and adjusting in the era of Trump.

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Question is, is that what's happening now? Is neoliberalism capitulating to neo-fascism? Is, as a matter of creative-destruction, democracy going by the way side? Or are we just pouring a new color over the old one? Leaving aside that Trump adds something far worse than lead to his red, white, and blue concoction.

Like with Detroit, liberal-democracy's not gone. Just, instead of a regenerative community, it's been parted-out to slum-lords. Feels like that's what's happening. The democrats have sailed on, and the slum-lords are mining the wreckage. Literally a slum-lord in Trump's case.