Re: Neo-liberalism

re: Agreement from me on "organising and initiating has always come about
as a function of government policy".

You might like to take a look, at:

1.      Forrester, Viviane, The Economic Horror. (Cambridge: Polity Press,
1999). ISBN: 0-7456-1994-0

and

2.      FASCISM AND NEO-CONSERVATISM: IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?*  John McMurtry
The Common Etiological Pattern* Prepared for presentation to the Liberalism
in Crisis Conference, University of Guelph, June, 1983. Published in:
Praxis International 4:1 (April 1984), 86-102.
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/ECON/needhdata/mcmurtrypraxis.htm


>On Wed, 3 May 2000, Cedric Beidatsch wrote:
>
>>Left to their own devices I just don't see the evidence for widespread
>>ordinary human brutality - brutalisation and participation yes, but the
>>organising and initiating has always come about as a function of
>>government policy.
>
>In Eastern Europe (for example in Latvia), as soon as Nazi disabled the
>local police, citizens began beating Jews to death with sticks and their
>bare hands.
>
>Andrew Austin
>Knoxville, TN


Dr. W. Robert Needham
Director, Canadian Studies Program
St. Paul's United College
University of Waterloo
Waterloo Ontario N2L 3G5
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/ECON/faculty/needham.html