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A review by joaofranciscof
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
informative
reflective
3.0
It is a very (VERY) repetitive and poorly organised book. However, it is always interesting to read Chomsky’s perspective on current affairs, specially USA affairs.
“(…) today, after forty years of the ‘savage capitalism’ unleashed by the neoliberal assault. (…) The effects of the assault are sharp concentration of wealth and power, increasingly in largely predatory financial institutions, stagnation or decline for the majority, deterioration of benefits, astonishing collapse of infrastructure, a form of globalisation designed to pit working people against one another for the benefit of international investors, weakening of institutions to protect worker rights, undermining of functioning democracy, and much else that is all too familiar.”
“(…) today, after forty years of the ‘savage capitalism’ unleashed by the neoliberal assault. (…) The effects of the assault are sharp concentration of wealth and power, increasingly in largely predatory financial institutions, stagnation or decline for the majority, deterioration of benefits, astonishing collapse of infrastructure, a form of globalisation designed to pit working people against one another for the benefit of international investors, weakening of institutions to protect worker rights, undermining of functioning democracy, and much else that is all too familiar.”