[lbo-talk] Fundamentalism and neo-liberalism

[Wojtek S]

"Pulling this together, people fight over urbanity because it’s a sort of
substitute for equality. In some ways, it’s real equality, as the
institutions of the city are often open to all. In others, perhaps more
important, it’s potential equality – we can all be the minority, we can all
fall into the path of a tube train, the mob is out there."

[WS:]  Indeed, cities are equalizing places.  One one level, people still
take the Metro to work, whether they have white or blue collar jobs.  And
the rich pay taxes that support public services.

On another level, the fact that you share the same physical space with
people of different backgrounds tends to reduce prejudice.  I often hear
form suburbanites that they are afraid to go to the city and most of that
fear is prejudice. I am not saying that city folk cannot be prejudiced but
that they are less likely than suburbanites.

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:00 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> I don't know if this observation is superficial, but it caught my eye: the
> shared interests of fundamentalism and neo-liberalism
>
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> http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/heres-something-about-turkey-and-everyone-else/
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> Joanna
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Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."