Död åt marknadsliberalismen !

Jag följer George Monbiots krönikor i The Guardian. Han är en oerhört engagerad kritiker av kapitalism och marknadsekonomi. Nu har han hittat en ny frände som han gärna vill sprida kunskap om. Det är den belgiske psykoanalytikern Paul Verhaeghe vars bok  What About Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society i dagarna utkommer på engelska.

Monbiot:

The market was meant to emancipate us, offering autonomy and freedom. Instead it has delivered atomisation and loneliness.

The workplace has been overwhelmed by a mad, Kafkaesque infrastructure of assessments, monitoring, measuring, surveillance and audits, centrally directed and rigidly planned, whose purpose is to reward the winners and punish the losers. It destroys autonomy, enterprise, innovation and loyalty, and breeds frustration, envy and fear. Through a magnificent paradox, it has led to the revival of a grand old Soviet tradition known in Russian as tufta. It means falsification of statistics to meet the diktats of unaccountable power.

The same forces afflict those who can’t find work. They must now contend, alongside the other humiliations of unemployment, with a whole new level of snooping and monitoring. All this, Verhaeghe points out, is fundamental to the neoliberal model, which everywhere insists on comparison, evaluation and quantification. We find ourselves technically free but powerless. Whether in work or out of work, we must live by the same rules or perish. All the major political parties promote them, so we have no political power either. In the name of autonomy and freedom we have ended up controlled by a grinding, faceless bureaucracy.

Jag tror vi kommer få höra mera om detta.

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