En marge de ces agitations autour de la crise financi\u00e8re, le commentateur britannique George Monbiot juge important de nous exposer comment nous en sommes arriv\u00e9s l\u00e0, comment l’hyper-lib\u00e9ralisme, ou n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9ralisme, s’est impos\u00e9 \u00e0 la civilisation occidentale en un gros demi-si\u00e8cle (Dans un article du Guardian<\/em>, le 28 ao\u00fbt<\/a>.) Il le juge d’autant plus important que le bilan est remarquable :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abFor the first time the UK’s consumer debt exceeds the total of its gross national product: a new report shows that we owe \u00a31.35 trillion. Inspectors in the United States have discovered that 77,000 road bridges are in the same perilous state as the one which collapsed into the Mississippi. Two years after Hurricane Katrina struck, 120,000 people from New Orleans are still living in trailer homes and temporary lodgings. As runaway climate change approaches, governments refuse to take the necessary action. Booming inequality threatens to create the most divided societies the world has seen since before the first world war. Now a financial crisis caused by unregulated lending could turf hundreds of thousands out of their homes and trigger a cascade of economic troubles.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThese problems appear unrelated, but they all have something in common<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCe qu’ils ont en commun: le n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9ralisme. Monbiot propose un historique de l’action d’un petit groupe, le Mount Pelerin Society, anim\u00e9 notamment par l’\u00e9conomiste lib\u00e9ral autrichien Friedrich von Hayeck, qui, \u00e0 partir du 1947, entreprit de r\u00e9pandre la doctrine n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9rale. Le processus se trouve renforc\u00e9, \u00e0 partir des ann\u00e9es 1970, par l’effort lanc\u00e9 aux USA de privatisation et de lib\u00e9ralisation du syst\u00e8me (\u00e0 partir du Manifeste Powell<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa culmination du processus n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9ral fut la prise en main des m\u00e9dias. Ces moyens de communicaton r\u00e9pandirent la doctrine n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9rale, ses formules, ses simplismes, jusqu’\u00e0 changer la psychologie, le m\u00e9canisme de la pens\u00e9e menant au jugement, jusqu’\u00e0 faire para\u00eetre dans le chef de chacun le jugement de conformit\u00e9 au n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9ralisme comme une chose naturelle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abBut the most powerful promoter of this programme was the media. Most of it is owned by multimillionaires who use it to project the ideas that support their interests. Those ideas which threaten their interests are either ignored or ridiculed. It is through the newspapers and TV channels that the socially destructive notions of a small group of extremists have come to look like common sense. The corporations’ tame thinkers sell the project by reframing our political language (for an account of how this happens, see George Lakoff’s book, Don’t Think of an Elephant!). Nowadays I hear even my progressive friends using terms like wealth creators, tax relief, big government, consumer democracy, red tape, compensation culture, job seekers and benefit cheats. These terms, all invented or promoted by neoliberals, have become so commonplace that they now seem almost neutral.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbNeoliberalism, if unchecked, will catalyse crisis after crisis, all of which can be solved only by greater intervention on the part of the state. In confronting it, we must recognise that we will never be able to mobilise the resources its exponents have been given. But as the disasters they have caused unfold, the public will need ever less persuading that it has been misled.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tUn point important est cette confluence entre le groupe Hayeck (dont Monbiot d\u00e9taille l’historique), et la structure du syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme. L’int\u00e9r\u00eat de la chose est qu’en faisant la promotion du m\u00eame syst\u00e8me, les deux groupes en arrivent tout de m\u00eame \u00e0 des postions contradictoires sur des points non n\u00e9gligeables. Le syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme a install\u00e9 le n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9ralisme mais en d\u00e9veloppant le gouvernement et ses moyens de puissance pour \u00e9tablir l’h\u00e9g\u00e9monisme militariste US. Sur ce point, les n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9raux US d’ob\u00e9dience Hayeck directe ou indirecte, qui sont souvent des libertariens adversaires de l’Etat, se trouvent en opposition farouche et d\u00e9termin\u00e9e au syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme. (Par exemple, le chroniqueur et directeur d’Antiwar.com<\/em> Justin Raimundo<\/a> est un libertarien adversaire de la puissance publique mais surtout connu pour son opposition \u00e0 la politique expansionniste US.) Cette contradiction interne est un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne important qui n’est pas assez exploit\u00e9 par les adversaires du n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9ralisme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 29 ao\u00fbt 2007 \u00e0 09H38<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" En marge de ces agitations autour de la crise financi\u00e8re, le commentateur britannique George Monbiot juge important de nous exposer comment nous en sommes arriv\u00e9s l\u00e0, comment l’hyper-lib\u00e9ralisme, ou n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9ralisme, s’est impos\u00e9 \u00e0 la civilisation occidentale en un gros demi-si\u00e8cle (Dans un article du Guardian, le 28 ao\u00fbt.) 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