Nice, so a political economy that fuses corporate interests with the state (might call it, hmm, corporatism), crushes dissent with police violence and lawfare, commits to privatizing public goods, and overthrows democratically elected leaders, contributes to fascism? Damn that's crazy cuz that already just sounds like fascism, lol

"It is not the minimalist state advocated by libertarians, or even the highly constricted state envisioned by neoliberalism.

"Rather, the answer is something along the lines of a rejuvenated European social democracy or a new American Progressive Capitalism, a twenty-first century version of social democracy or of the Scandinavian welfare state."

80 years of cold war propaganda and we're just gonna pretend the other thing doesn't exist. "What is to be done?" 🤔

It's been 80yrs of "socialism is when the government does stuff and the more stuff it does the more socialist it is". The average western brain is now thinking "hey maybe the government doing some stuff is actually good".

You don't say. You're telling me that heightening the contradictions of capitalism while also crushing socialism and labor-oriented solutions leads people toward the waiting embrace of reactionary politics, national chauvinism, and fascism? No way!

How did our new gilded age lead to fascism when that's what happened last time! How could anyone have seen this coming?!

Gee no shit pal. They give out the Nobel for stating the obvious now?

Wow. I didn't know that. You are telling me now for the first time.

Fascism has led to fascism

Wooooww

reminder that there's no such thing as a Nobel prize in economics, and this guy won the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel"

Oh yeah, well Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says "nuh-uh!". Checkmate leftists!

Give this man free parking at UC Berlekey.

Nobel laureate

is it a real Nobel or that shit-ass fake economics one

EDIT: it's the shit-ass fake one

ya don't say

No shit!

i mean duh

Nobel laureate Barack Obama says "actually no, it hasn't, and I was always coconutpilled".

Well they're not all idiots lol.

Is this the war criminal type of Nobel Laureate?