Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: Russia Leaves Neoliberal West To Join World Majority

by Michael Hudson

Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 17, 2023

Geopolitical Economy Report on Apr 13, 2023

In this episode of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour, economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss Russia’s economic transition away from the neoliberal West and integration with what it calls the “World Majority” in the Global South.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/michael-hudson-and-radhika-desai-russia-leaves-neoliberal-west-to-join-world-majority/

Finian Cunningham and Clara Mattei: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

 by Finian Cunningham

Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
April 13, 2023

Western liberal democracy and its ubiquitous “austerity economics” is a euphemism for fascism. And the charade is finally coming to an end.

Austerity is not some recent policy under neoliberal capitalism. It was born out of the historic crisis in the Western system following the First World War and during the 1930s when fascism became a way to curtail any democratic challenge to the prevailing capitalist system.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/clara-mattei-the-capital-order-how-economists-invented-austerity-and-paved-the-way-to-fascism/