In this polemical analysis of the rise of neoliberalism in the UK and the political culture it threw up, the author argues that the market state no longer serves the nation, but transnational capital. Consequently, inequality and poverty have been structured into society. Government rhetoric about the small state, ‘big society’ and localism are cons that smooth the way to privatisation, the undermining of democracy, and the imposition of market morality. It is by resisting the market state and its political culture that new social movements can ‘socialise’ global capital-in-crisis as the labour movement once socialised industrial capital.
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PratleyN., ‘Dudes, this is serious: the buck must stop at the top’, Guardian (25June2012).
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TreanorJ., ‘Barclays fined £290m as bid to manipulate rates exposed’, Guardian (28June2012).
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JudtT., Ill Fares the Land (Penguin, 2010).
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HarveyD., Spaces of Global Capitalism (London, Verso, 2006).
21.
Ibid.
22.
DeborahDuffin, ‘We are angry, but no one’s listening’, letter to the Guardian (30August2012).
