Constructing an anti-Neoliberal Analysis to Arrive at Truly Alternative Alternatives

• Published in: Struggle in a Time of Crisis p. 103
• Main Author: Salimah Valiani
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Pluto Press 20-11-2015
• Subjects: Capitalism; Continental philosophy; Economic disciplines; Economic liberalism; Economic theory; Economics; Education; Employment; Health care costs; Health care economics; Health sciences; Hospital costs; International economics; Labor economics; Macroeconomics; Marxian economics; Medical education; Medical personnel; Medical sciences; Medical technology; Metaphilosophy; Nurses; Nursing education; Occupations; Philosophy; Professional education; Specialized education; Western philosophy; World economy
• ISBN: 0745336213; 9780745336213
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt183p5st.24

For the past few decades the world economy has been shifting through radical restructuring and reorganisation. Within this context, the ‘anti- globalisation’, ‘anti-WTO’, ‘anti-neoliberal’, and other such movements are an important field within which to identify the thinking behind the action. For Antonio Gramsci (1971), questions of theory and practice are raised particularly when the ‘movement of historical transformation is at its most rapid’. The point of such questioning, as Gramsci says, is to make the ‘practical forces unleashed’ more efficient and expansive and the ‘theoretical programmes’ more realistically justified. Taking inspiration from this, the aim of this chapter is