"By the early 1980s the more perceptive sectors of the neo-liberal ruling classes realised that their policies were polarising the society and provoking large-scale social discontent. Neo-liberal politicians began to finance and promote a parallel strategy of “from below”, the promotion of “grassroots” organisation with an “anti-statist” ideology to intervene among potentially conflicting classes, to create a “social cushion”. These organisations were financially dependent on neo-liberal sources and were directly involved in competing with socio-political movements for the allegiance of local leaders and activist communities. By the 1990s these organisations, described as “non-governmental”, numbered in the thousands and were receiving close to US$4 billion world-wide."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Petras
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
James Petras
16 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by James Petras →
Related Quotes
"The future of popular-based social and economic changes does not he in parliamentary elections, given their elitist s…"
"The inefficiency of the state is directly related to its subordination to private interests."
"Most dictatorships have been anti-statist and pro-free market, today and in the past and probably in the future."
"...The counter-position of “civil society” to the state is also a false dichotomy. Much of the discussion of civil so…"
"...The problem, we are told, is not foreign investments or foreign aid but their absence and they ask for more imperi…"
"In fact, the industrial workers and in particular their trade unions have been the least active and least militant co…"
"Anti-imperialist movements are no longer middle class dominated nationalist movements, they are class-based because i…"
"Proclaiming 19th Century ‘liberalism’, British opium addicted over 50 million Chinese in less than a decade."
"Competition over shrinking resources intensifies conflict over shares of a shrinking pie."
"The trade unions, narrowly focused on everyday issues and their immediate membership, ignored the mass of unemployed,…"