NEOLIBERALISM WAS BORN IN CHILE AND WILL DIE IN CHILE.

[Perissodactyla]

 

[Phalena]

Hi, this looks interesting, isn't really the focus over here though. Mind to give some context?

[RoseGoesToYale]

Well, her initial statement does hold up. Chile embraced neoliberal policies as early as the 70s. But I would need more context for the dying part.

 

Socialism didn't really have a change to get going in other Latin American countries due to Operation Condor, which was essentially my country getting so scared of Russia and Communism that they did everything in their military power to set up decidedly anti-Communist dictatorships down there.

[Alawyn-Aebt]

Neoliberalism being born in Chile? I don't think that really holds up historically. Chile did take a neoliberal slant from the end of Allende in the 1970s onward, but I would argue neoliberalism is much older than the 1970s. I really do not want to accidentally derail this thread into a debate as to what neoliberalism actually is so I will withhold my individual points, but even in its name, neoliberalism, it indicates itself as a new resurgence of liberalism, which can be traced back to the 1700s with ease.

[-1=e^ipi]

I guess Milton Friedman was from Chile...

 

Neoliberalism is just Classical Liberalism + an understanding of Economics. It has brought Chile to the most prosperous South American country. In comparison, the socialism in Venezuela has brought misery and death.

[Perissodactyla]

 

 

https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/chile-protests-fare-hike-pinera-demands

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Chile

 

htps://twitter.com/infoambiental/status/1188150495392784384?s=19

 

https://twitter.com/infoambiental/status/1188150495392784384?s=19

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chilean_protests

[Sally]

No.  

[gisiebob]

use your human words pls

[Jean Claude Van Ace]

Well, it certainly wasn't born in Chile, but it was the place in which neoliberal economists probaly had the most room and and government backing to implement their ideas.

 

Almost like a textbook experiment, neoliberals didn't have to bother with elections, media criticism or protests - it was a dictatorship, and a particularly harsh one at that - and retooled the economy as they saw fit.