Neoliberals were boxed out of the bulk of the Asiastic mainland and Eastern Europe. They'd periodically lose control of large chunks of Africa and were in an endless struggle to wrest control of Latin America from the 1930s to the 1980s. It wasn't until the 90s and the end of the USSR that the dominoes really began to tumble.
Neoliberalism won in no small part because Soviet Era leadership was sclerotic, dysfunctional, and - particularly in Eastern Europe - deeply corrupt. Without a growth-oriented economy and an imperial core willing to plow all that surplus into endless war, the Soviets simply couldn't keep the barbarians off the gates. Once guys like Gorbachev and Yeltsin began selling out to the West, nothing remained to backstop the weaker corners of the globe against Americans simply overrunning them.
What's interesting to witness in the modern era is the failure of neoliberal institutions to consolidate control. A financial sector that spend the 90s and 00s gobbling up global assets with abandon has run in a wall following the '08 meltdown. Neoliberals failed to conquer the Middle East under Bush/Obama. Their effort to flip India has met deep domestic resistance. In the fight to control Afghanistan, they've burned bridges from Pakistan to the Philippines and ceded significant ground to China.
In another 10-20 years, we might be writing history books about the Fall of the Liberal West.
Capitalism still, by definition, controlled the majority of the planet. That's my point, not necessarily that the ideological concept of neoliberalism controlled it.
so Neoliberalism "won" because it was being helped by it's buddy buddy pal pals
they "lost" because neoliberalism controlled 90% of the planet you reddit fucks
I don't know about that.
Neoliberals were boxed out of the bulk of the Asiastic mainland and Eastern Europe. They'd periodically lose control of large chunks of Africa and were in an endless struggle to wrest control of Latin America from the 1930s to the 1980s. It wasn't until the 90s and the end of the USSR that the dominoes really began to tumble.
Neoliberalism won in no small part because Soviet Era leadership was sclerotic, dysfunctional, and - particularly in Eastern Europe - deeply corrupt. Without a growth-oriented economy and an imperial core willing to plow all that surplus into endless war, the Soviets simply couldn't keep the barbarians off the gates. Once guys like Gorbachev and Yeltsin began selling out to the West, nothing remained to backstop the weaker corners of the globe against Americans simply overrunning them.
What's interesting to witness in the modern era is the failure of neoliberal institutions to consolidate control. A financial sector that spend the 90s and 00s gobbling up global assets with abandon has run in a wall following the '08 meltdown. Neoliberals failed to conquer the Middle East under Bush/Obama. Their effort to flip India has met deep domestic resistance. In the fight to control Afghanistan, they've burned bridges from Pakistan to the Philippines and ceded significant ground to China.
In another 10-20 years, we might be writing history books about the Fall of the Liberal West.
Capitalism still, by definition, controlled the majority of the planet. That's my point, not necessarily that the ideological concept of neoliberalism controlled it.
so Neoliberalism "won" because it was being helped by it's buddy buddy pal pals