A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey 5/5

Underground906 Says:

Apr 3, 2011 - Yes you would loathe people that oppose you pathetic and debunked fantasies. You would be the typical, hatetful to a an almost psychotic state, bigoted left winger communist who can only resort to emotive and hate filled ad homs, while distorting what is the truth about the situation if you didn't. Not, you fool, the US wasn't overthrowing 'leftist' governements, they have one now, but fighting the muderous ideology of communism, the only ones who did, thank god. You need to grow up.

Underground906 Says:

Apr 3, 2011 - @bapyou Throughout its bloodsoaked history, has been led by twisted, hateful, ruthless ideologues full of the same hate for others of a different view point and the same propensity to demonize capitalism in a far from a rational manner as you can get in as you are, in order to try to bring about some unobtainable socialist utopia. You people are sick fantasists. And the bitterness bought about by the defeat of your wolly headed communist ideas never ceases, as your ad hom shows.

bapyou Says:

Apr 3, 2011 - "Yes you would loathe people that oppose you pathetic and debunked fantasies. "No, you scum, I oppose ruling-class scum & their supporters who stand in the way of societies functioning for their people and not for the rulers."US wasn't overthrowing 'leftist' governements, they have one now"The fact that you think Obama is left wing is proof that you are a propagandized assfucking assfuck. The US has overthrown NUMEROUS leftist governments, you stupid fuck scum fuck.

Underground906 Says:

Apr 3, 2011 - The Democrats are leftwing. You're a spastic. Mentally handicapped. And a deeply vile individual. The kind of freak who believes one hundred per cent that everything would be perfect if ther was no social hierarchy and that those at the top of it are the ones in the way of that perfect society. You sad little man. Imagine if demented leftist morons like you really were on an equal footing to those higher up the social ladder. Society would crumble. Its just reality you pea brained cunt.

Underground906 Says:

Apr 3, 2011 - ''Provide some evidence to support your claim that Harvey is laying out a Utopian project?''There's an interview with a woman from the BBC on yt somewhere. He openly talks about the utopia he envisions. It's pretty sad watching a clearly intelligent man turn a blind eye to the inescapable reality of life and chose some fantasy life we everyone lives by utopian ideas. Wishful thinking.I live in reality. A free society. And accept that the leftist idea of 'equality' is nonsense..

Underground906 Says:

Apr 3, 2011 - Fucking nonsense in fact. And I see that because I'm humble enough to look at the world and know there are people better at things at me. I'm not eaten up and consumed with hatred that they do far better than I do. The left are pathological liars anyway. Living conditions and the inequality gap has shrunk in the west. Capitalism has made todays 'poor' far better off. This giant totalitarian paranaoia of capitalism is absurd, and indicative of the nuerosis that is modern leftism.

bapyou Says:

Apr 5, 2011 - "The Democrats are leftwing."Look: Little boy: Allow me to explain something: Becky Glenn & his mad chalkbaord rants are a comedy show. Becky wouldn't know a real left-winger if his fat-assed life depended on it.The members of both mainstream parties are composed of corporate whores doing the bidding of the Military Industrial Complex. Becky Glenn (who makes $23 million per year) tells you scary things about Dems to keep you fighting with other working class people.

Underground906 Says:

Apr 5, 2011 - It makes me laugh when you fucking clowns say ''they're not left-wing!!!1!!''. I swear I've never seen a (secular) group of people so completely deluded. It's part of the personality disorder your ilk invariably have. ''If they were really left wing they'd crush big business altogether and redsitribute the wealth''. What you mean is they are not communist/marxist/idealistic enough. Go fuck yourself you imbecil and stop wasting my time. Your lefty sanctimony is odius and nauseating.

bapyou Says:

Jun 26, 2011 - Yes, the Democrats are NOT left-wing. Sorry to burst your bubble, you right-wing dolt. The Democrats are as much a capitalist party as the Republicans. True left-wing is anti-capitalist; always has been the true definition of left-wing. The fact that right-wing dolts like you brand Democrats as "left-wing" is a tactic which limits possibilities, i.e. the Democrats are already left-wing, therefore there isn't anything that needs to be done beyond electing more Democrats. Fuck you.

Underground906 Says:

Jun 27, 2011 - You fucking jumped up little turd. You don't get to decide the definition of Left-wing you fucking cock. You're talking specifically about Socialism/Communism and saying that is 'left-wing', and nothing else is. Which is ridiculous. ''True'' Left-Wing? You just go on to repeat and reaffirm what I said in my earlier post to you. There is a reason why all anti-capitalist governments have murdered so many dissenters. They are full of hateful nutcases like you.

bapyou Says:

Jun 28, 2011 - "You don't get to decide the definition of Left-wing"And who decides? Right-wingers? What a stupid fuck you are. "Socialism/Communism . . . that is 'left-wing', and nothing else." Correct. And throw in the anarchists as well. Those constitute left-wing; not pro-capitalist Democrats. In Europe these are the parameters that are understood.In America propgandized dolts like you -- incapable of farting crosswise in the dark -- think they actually know something.Go F urself.

Underground906 Says:

Jun 29, 2011 - ''And who decides? Right-wingers? What a stupid fuck you are.'' The fact that the only alternative to you in who gets to decide must be right-wingers, and that fact that you assume I meant that shows what a complete fucking idiot you are. Like every single other postering lefty moron I have come across, you think in stereotypes and mischaraterization when it comes to people who disagree and never the real reality for why they do. I'm from the UK. You know nothing you cliche.

simonoconnor6 Says:

Aug 30, 2011 - Go Communism whoop whoop!!

Relugus Says:

Nov 12, 2011 - The funny thing is Friedrich Hayek was a welfare sponger, who used the wlefare systems he claimed to despise.When the Kochs invited him to America Hayek worried that he wouldn't get any medical benefits, so they sent him a pamphlet about the wonders of US social welfare.Hayek sponged off Austrian and US taxpayers, what a hypocritical scumbag.

Relugus Says:

Nov 12, 2011 - Why, then, were the bankers bailed out? Why does the US taxpayer fund Lockheed Martin (the failed aviation company)?Why does the US government subidise oil?Why are cheaper foreign import medicines not allowed in America?Why is Monsanto subsidised by the US taxpayer and allowed to bully American farmers?Why are government contracts handed out to companies without bids?I believe that private corporations should not be given a dime of US taxpayer's money.End all corporate welfare.

delusivex Says:

Dec 1, 2011 -  I fapped to this.

sfjeff1089 Says:

Jan 20, 2012 - kids, kids, settle down.It is pretty obvious that for free market capitalism to work, companies need to be motivated in such a way that their best outcomes are outcomes the rest of us would find acceptable. By way of analogy, society should reward better the person who saves up and buys a VCR more than the person who breaks a window and takes one. Similarly, companies who use safe mining techniques that don't drop arsenic in drinking water should find that's a competitive advantage.

sfjeff1089 Says:

Jan 20, 2012 - (continued), and companies that go out and build something should be more prevalent than companies that trick the government into large transfers of wealth via privatization. The Neoliberal's own theories would come around to this if they were more introspective. For example, Milton Friedman once said, whatever a society rewards, it finds it get's more of. This profit habit is all you need to know in order to realize that there will never be a privatization sale via public IPO.

godshiva Says:

Feb 13, 2012 - Was this meant as a reply to somebody? It doesn't make any sense as a reply to the lecture.

BariPescara Says:

Feb 24, 2012 - Quite possibly the stupidest analogy of 13,000 viewers...

sfjeff1089 Says:

Feb 25, 2012 - Is it then? Does that mean that you are a proponent of the idea that profit incentive is always aligned with public good? What about Haliburton going from 22nd largest military contractor to largest after its ex-CEO became vice president?I think you should be more constructive and offer a logical response or counter example instead of just saying it is stupid.

1michelemichele1 Says:

Mar 13, 2012 - with one excception -- something Harvey mentions about Mao near the end of the lecture -- he's so spot on, it's unnerving. and this was posted in 2007? surreal.