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NEOLIBRALISME, sering dipertukarkan dengan fundamentalisme pasar (market fundamentalism) (Stiglitz, 2006:576), menjadi kata yang populer saat ini. Menjelaskannya tidak mudah, tetapi kalau ada kata lain yang bisa dipakai untuk menggantikannya agar mudah dipahami secepat kilat, maka pilihannya mungkin jatuh pada kata ‘kemerdekaan’ atau ‘kebebasan’ (freedom). Ada alasannya, karena Milton Friedman, penerima nobel tahun 1976 dan penulis buku ‘Capitalism and Freedom,’ yang dianggap salah seorang penggagas ide-ide neoliberalisme, menjadikan freedom sebagai hal paling pokok dalam gagasan-gagasannya.
Monthly Review Volume 63, Number 11 (April 2012) For decades we have been arguing in Monthly Review that stagnation is the normal state of the mature monopoly-capitalist economies. Today the reality of stagnation is increasingly gaining the attention of the corporate media itself.… For those accustomed to thinking of the capitalist economy as either growing rapidly or occasionally falling into a severe crisis (from which it quickly bounces back), long-run stagnation is a difficult to understand phenomenon. [A stagnating economy] neither collapses into a full (or “classic”) crisis, which would allow it to clear out (or devalue) its overaccumulated capital, nor is it able to achieve a full recovery.
LAKI-LAKI dan perempuan pertengahan 20-an tahun bergandengan masuk ke kedai kopi di ujung jalan. Mereka melepaskan gandengan tangan ketika seorang waitress perempuan di depan pintu menyapa mereka, ”selamat sore,” dengan senyum menawan sedikit genit. Si Perempuan cemberut yang memaksa Si Lelaki mengeluarkan lima enam kalimat rayuan. Mereka mendapat meja di sudut kiri kedai itu.
We continue our interview with ousted Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed and ask him if he plans to seek office again. "I will contest the coming elections," Nasheed says, noting that, "if the coup was so popular, we would have seen people coming out, rejoicing with the military." [includes rush transcript]
On Thursday, March 22nd, around 300,000 students, teachers, and workers took to the streets of Montreal in a massive demonstration of historic proportions. On that day, 308,723 students were united in a strike across the province. The march was joined by buses from all over Quebec which brought students from universities, CEGEPs, and surprisingly, even a significant contingent from high schools! Workers’ unions, from the metallos to the nurses to the teachers and others, also came out, flying their union flags.