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> My rebuttal, of course, would be that "neoliberal discourse" would not have gained any traction but for the trade unions, and the parties based on them, having been gravely weakened by the revolution in technology and communications and the political transformations in the fSU and China. These in combination opened vast new markets for capitalist expansion and profitability and hammered the industrial working class in the advanced capitalist countries.
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Should read the "revolution in communications and transportation technology" rather than "revolution in technology and communications".