Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau: when brutal neoliberalism tries to re-brand itself through fresh faces
This
is a picture of a doctrine that is about to die and tries to stay alive
through cheap tricks
Neoliberalism
has a human face with France's Emmanuel Macron and Canada's Justin
Trudeau. The pair has been presented as young innovators, saviors
from the evils of populism.
But what
about the substance which is their policies. Are their policies
progressive or innovative?
Trudeau
talks about climate change, but has pushed for new pipelines carrying
oil from Alberta's tar sands and supported Trump's approval for
Keystone.
The Canadian
leader said Canada would welcome Muslims, but affected by Trump's
travel ban and refused to raise country's refugee intake.
Macron has
just been elected president, yet as France's economy minister he
pushed the pro-business labor reform that caused outrage among unions
and workers in the country.
The former
Rothschild investment banker's campaign was funded by France's
wealthiest, including those who moved to Belgium in order to pay less
taxes.
Both leaders
have come under fire for their racist comments.
While media
heap praise Trudeau and Macron for their looks, what these leaders
actually doing, is neither new, nor attractive.
This is the
new face of neoliberalism that struggles to survive by promoting
itself as the only 'solution' against right and left populism. The
establishment apparatus presents leftist leaders as something equally
bad with the far right threat. It doesn't seem to work if we look
Sanders' popularity in the US, the rise of Corbyn and Melenchon in
the UK and France, despite the fierce attacks by the mainstream
media.
Emmanuel
Macron and Justin Trudeau are examples of another attempt of
neoliberalism to trick the masses by disguising itself as the 'new'.
In reality this is the old, bankrupt doctrine which has far more
similarities with the far right than with the real left. Besides,
this is the reason for which the leftist leaders are treated with
such a hostility by the establishment press. It's because they are
the real threat against what neoliberalism stands for.
But people
won't be tricked so easily this time by these cheap and obsolete
tactics.
As
mentioned, Macron
should remember the thousands in the streets of the French cities
when his 'Socialist' buddy, Francois Hollande, dared to pass the
anti-labor bill. The Socialists have been wiped out from the French
political map, but Macron will face a new round of unprecedented
popular uprise in the streets, once he will try to finish the job for
the elites. And it will happen, despite the unprecedented repression
under the pretext of terrorism.
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