CountFosco posted:

All neoliberals believe in free trade and global institutions. Do you understand why this is? It is to perpetuate the entrenched power of the developed west against the developing world, through a financial system which systematically devalues resources by denying African, South American, and Asian countries the ability to demand a fair price for the resources which they have. Neoliberals are tied to the libertarian wing of modern conservatism through their relentless advocacy of free trade, a rhetoric which disguises the fact that free trade has tremendous costs for the developing world. And they absolve their underlying guilt by making a special effort to buy "fair trade" coffee while meanwhile ignoring the reality that there is no "fair trade" movement for such fundamental resources as rare earth metals, timber, etc.