Neo-Liberalism Ruined The World, U.S. Author Argues

Author David Rosen has scored Russia expert and The Atlantic columnist Anne Applebaum for claiming “there is no liberal world order, and there are no riles without someone to enforce them.”

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In his essay “The Neo-Liberal World Order May Be Over” published by CounterPunch magazine of the US on April 16, 2022, Rosen said Applebaum ignores how “ferociously” the US has fought since World War II to maintain the global hegemony she identifies as liberalism.

Yes, the US is a very dynamic nation with, for many, unprecedented freedom to do almost anything they want – and with the largest military (and military-industrial complex) in the world. Her celebrated “Never again” mantra is the social lubricant of decades of foreign intervention – from Vietnam to Afghanistan and everywhere in between.

“Precisely because there is no liberal world order, no norms, and no rules, we must fight ferociously for the values and the hopes of liberalism if we want our open societies to continue to exist,” Applebaum argued.

“Wealth would bring liberalism. Capitalism would bring democracy—and democracy would bring peace.”

These statements are a call for a strong Western alliance that would impose a real liberal order since Russia, North Korea, China, Belarus, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, Hungary, and “potentially others” are threats that must be subdued to end tyranny and re-establish the rule of monopoly capital.

However, Rosen argued that the era of “relative” equality has been eclipsed by a new order of “inequality,” of Robber Baron capitalism reliving the Gilded Age. A century ago, the Gilded Age was an era of the celebrated grand bourgeoisie but also marked by widespread poverty, racist violence, and women launching first-wave feminism.

“We appear to be swimming in an unstable era marked by not only a global pandemic, but the ever-growing rise of environmental concerns, increased forced migration, widespread malnutrition (especially among the very young) and neo-colonial warfare fought with postmodern techno-madness,” Rosen told Applebaum.

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