As the French Marxist Louis Althusser pointed out in his essay on the ideological state apparatuses, this is what makes the ‘interpellation’ process (his name for a particular kind of capitalist indoctrination) so effective
Neoliberalism – the reduction of all social life to the logic of profit-seeking behaviour – ought to have disappeared in 2008, and a form of it certainly did
As the cultural critic Mark Fisher insightfully demonstrated, contemporary capitalism wages a psychological war as much as a pecuniary one, where melancholy is systematically induced on a mass scale to tame the revolutionary rage that marked the 1960s and 1970s apart
from Ghosts of My Life which I really need to read
A land purchase qualifies as a grab when it entails a transfer of at least 500 acres to be converted from smallholder production, collective use or ecosystem services to commercial activity. Land grabs may provide abstract economic benefit--increasing GDP, for instance
This Manichean view fits nicely with our already existing assumptions
on TI's corruption report (rich countries do well, poor countries do badly)
