Manuela Cadelli, President of Belgian Magistrates — Neoliberalism is a form of Fascism

The time for rhetorical reservations is over. Things have to be called by their name to make it possible for a co-ordinated democratic reaction to be initiated, above all in the public services.

Liberalism was a doctrine derived from the philosophy of Enlightenment, at once political and economic, which aimed at imposing on the state the necessary distance for ensuring respect for liberties and the coming of democratic emancipation. It was the motor for the arrival, and the continuing progress, of Western democracies.
Neoliberalism is a form of economism in our day that strikes at every moment at every sector of our community. It is a form of extremism.

Fascism may be defined as the subordination of every part of the State to a totalitarian and nihilistic ideology.

I argue that neoliberalism is a species of fascism because the economy has brought under subjection not only the government of democratic countries but also every aspect of our thought.

The state is now at the disposal of the economy and of finance, which treat it as a subordinate and lord over it to an extent that puts the common good in jeopardy.…

Transnational corporate totalitarianism.

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The President of Belgian Magistrates: Neoliberalism is a form of Fascism
Manuela Cadelli, President of the Magistrates’ Union of Belgium
Published in the Belgian daily Le Soir, 3.3.2016
Translated from French by Wayne Hall
ht Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism