The research note below is by my friend, Argentine economist Rubén Lo Vuolo. There are two features I especially value about it: (1) It shows it is a myth that the era of Neoliberalism is over and retreating. (2) Lo Vuolo’s “language” is analytically accurate and powerful, and it is strikingly different from that of progressive advocates and economists here (in the US & Europe).
“Warren Buffett, one of the most renowned billionaire financiers in the world, is well known: “Of course there is a class struggle, but it is my class – the class of the rich – that is waging this war. And we are winning it.” The labor reform project promoted by the Argentine Executive Branch is proof of this. It is not something new, much less something modern as it is claimed, but one more link in a process that seeks to take labor relations back to the nineteenth century to submit the labor force to the designs of the capitalist class.”