Neoliberalism Isn't An Economic Program - It's

Meanwhile, The U.s. Debt Remains, As It Has Been Since 1790, A War Debt; The United States Continues To Spend More On Its Military Than Do All Other Nations On Earth Put Together, And Military Expenditures Are Not Only The Basis Of The Government's Industrial Policy; They Also Take Up Such A Huge Proportion Of The Budget That By Many Estimations, Were It Not For Them, The United States Would Not Run A Deficit At All.

It Affects Every Aspect Of Our Lives, Is Often Said To Be The Root Of All Evil, And The Analysis Of The World That It Makes Possible - What We Call 'the Economy' - Is So Important To Us That Economists Have Become The High Priests Of Our Society. Yet, Oddly, There Is Absolutely No Consensus Among Economists About What Money Really Is.

Consensus Isn't Just About Agreement. It's About Changing Things Around: You Get A Proposal, You Work Something Out, People Foresee Problems, You Do Creative Synthesis. At The End Of It, You Come Up With Something That Everyone Thinks Is Okay. Most People Like It, And Nobody Hates It.

If Your Father Is An Air-conditioner Repairman From Nebraska, Its Conceivable That You Might Become A Ceo, But You Can't Imagine Being The Drama Critic For The New York Times. So If You Come From A Background Like That And You Want To Actually Have A Career Which Involves Doing Something Noble In The World, What Can You Do? You Can Join The Army. That's About It. Or You Can Work For The Church. That Explains A Lot Of The Focus Of Right-wing Populism. The Right Wing Figured That Out, That People Want Enough To Survive And To Do Good.

What We're Already Doing Is Communism. The First Step We Have To Make Is To Realize That We're Already Closer To It Than We Think.