How Propagandists for the 1% Are Manipulating Christian Teachings to Rob the Middle Class 

The neoliberal utopianism that caused the financial crisis has been repackaged for the 2012 election.

In order to understand the fervor of this continued popular support for failed policies, it is important to grasp the utopian, quasi-theological nature of neoliberal ideology. In the neoliberal worldview, the self-regulating market is not a merely human construct, but a form of naturally-occurring "spontaneous order" that produces optimum outcomes and maximum individual freedom if left completely unfettered. (13) It is, as Karl Polanyi pointed out in "The ... Full Story »

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