The NeoLiberal

West Indian and Caribbean nationalists, including Garveyites, contributed to the anti-imperialist and decolonization movements and struggles.  However, West Indian nationalists broadly did not question capitalism and the class relations of exploitation on which it has rested.  In the end, the nationalist movement left the struggle for independence with major deficits, including those nationalist narratives that sought to produce “national literatures based on working class and peasant culture” (Rosenberg 1). When nationalists speak in the name of the working class, they leave the impression of espousing a working class political agenda.  However, their project does not break with bourgeois consciousness and they never manage to see a way beyond capitalism. They may imagine ways to reduce foreign penetration, domination and what passes for ‘cultural imperialism,’ however this stance reinforces capitalist class relations and bourgeois ideology while it fails to benefit the ...

Many economic and social scientists have asserted that Neo-Liberalism creates inequality and poverty. Indeed, Human beings are nomads who have been traveling from place to place all their lives, because of an inequality of opportunities. This mobility has increased significantly because of neo-liberal globalization. Neo-liberal globalization, putatively based on the free movement of people, goods and services across borders, has largely ostracized the masses in the global south exploiting their labor and limiting their freedom of movement, while capital is free to go wherever it desires. However, it was always the belief in some quarters that the free-market is essential and indispensable to economic growth,  equality, and poverty reduction.  Neo-liberal capitalism was to be the new world order that deposes the old feudal system where production was centered  around ownership of land by the...

Having presented arguments and cited examples of neo-liberal Structural Adjustment (SA) adverse effects on Jamaica...., we may now conclude with the question: Does the Jamaica inequality trend support the assertion that neo-liberal restructuring creates inequality and poverty? If so how or if not why not? It is quite clear from the presentation of the facts that Jamaica’s social and economic performance has been mixed. The political dynamics of the state, poor economic management, measured approaches, mass migration over the years, brain drain, market deregulation and poor educational outcomes have all played a role in undermining Jamaica’s growth. However, market deregulation and globalization have exacerbated the problem by worsening Jamaica’s financial burdens through a compilation of direct and indirect methods, which include the imposition of conditions that do not fit the Jamaican context. This also involves withholding aid and investment, lending at high interest rates in...

Kedourie argues that the principal of self-determination gives the doctrine of nationalism its "dynamic" character. What does he mean by this? What consequences follow from his argument for our understanding of the doctrine of Nationalism and its validity? It is difficult to prove everything as occurring or existing naturally, and to see things as they are.  Therefore, we are only left with our thinking says Descartes. Moreover, the thing that thinks is internal or is it?  Hence, this discovery is evidence that we exist but to do what.  Just as the awareness of existence is a dynamic and difficult negotiation of the self, so too is the desire to nationally self-determine.  Hence, nations are not some outer or otherworldly creations that are naturally inherent, but a creation of the self through reason.     This idea was shaped in the enlightenment period.  The internal drive to become a MAN, to determine oneself and ones future from an immaterial ...

@NiggerInnis - on @Foxnaton in his rebuttal of @Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va). Who had stated That “The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody. We created it." ( https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1272944779542831106?s=21  )said on #foxnation @LauraIngraham everyone knows that Africans enslaved their own people...” But I disagree with Nigger and those who continue to advance this misguided idea. #Africans did not enslave their “own people”. #Africa is a continent made up of tribes, clans or countries & Africans didn’t identify as black; they were clannish/nationalistic - Slavery wasn’t based on race but on clan or country. Africans didn’t see race they see clan. They didn’t see color, they saw clan. So to say Africans enslaved their own people is premature and ignorant. It presupposes that Africans are the same as African Americans and that the situations, time  and contexts between the two are the same, thereby making pseudo-appeal to association and an allege...

‪#DonaldTrump spoke from #MountRushmore last evening trying to look #Presidential, and providing a eulogy to memorialize the great fathers of old. But in an effort to do so he was being more divisive, political and insensitive, pandering to his base, ignoring the other #America and subtly drawing battle lines where he is setting the tone for civil unrest as if we’re some totalitarian third world religious country. ‬ Dear Mr. Donald J. Trump and Mr. Joe Biden; http://renaldocmckenzie.blogspot.com/2020/07/dear-mr-donald-j-trump-and-mr-joe-biden.html What is the “Ultimate” of All Things? By Renaldo McKenzie http://renaldocmckenzie.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-is-ultimate-of-all-things.html

#christophercolumbus committed high crimes against humanity, destroying civilizations, causing the genocide of peoples, had & profited from slavery. This is who we have memorialized. The people who bear the scars of his violence are reminded everyday of this by vestiges of him. They can’t punish him but at times and quite rightly so they want to hurt him; they want to punish him but he’s not here he’s already dead, this “honorable man”. So the scarred take their angst @ the images and things that remind them of him.  “By tearing down  the symbols of hurt you heal”  Rev. Renaldo McKenzie

A surprising new study found that the [same antimalarial drug is used to treat patients with HIV-1] hydroxychloroquine, is helping Covid-19 patients better survive in the hospital (See the full CNN report @ https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1278964201789194240?s=21 )  Unfortunately, the CNN report or the study didn’t go as far as to say that it’s the same drug with properties that can be utilized and is being utilized in antiretroviral drugs/treatment to treat people with HIV-1, but while reading and doing some research I made the discovery and updated the headline and the story. Here’s whats happening.   We are already aware of:  An HIV-fighting strategy might help against COVID-19:  Drugs and plasma could prevent infection before vaccines are available,  And acvording to Nicole Westman in the Verge: Though many people are pinning their hopes on a COVID-19 vaccine, another option is available: preventive treatment. At a Senate hearing this week, Anthony F...

There is a movement or effort to dilute and corrupt the “real” realities and “cause” of our brothers and sisters who are Crying out for “Help” and “fighting” for change. Tucker Carson and those siding against the oppressed for the oppressor deceives the truth when they describe the real #BLM as terrorists and people who want to overthrow the Government; thereby obfuscating the obvious and clear realities of the oppressed and marginalized.  Carson said recently on his show:  https://images.app.goo.gl/krh8kyYGdannniPn8 Further; #Whitepower Movement is real in America as some are rooting publicly for it.  https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_FdNdBwxR/?igshid=1x8o5zcsilgao So,  TuckerCarlson DON’T GET IT TWISTED; If  “Black people” were treated with respect and as if #AllLivesMatter then there would be no need for #BLM. Do not cherry🍒 pick the #BLM issues to try reduce and discount the need for #change. Youre deliberately oblivious.  In effect, Tucker Carson ...

We have a tendency to demonize a “good” thing, making sweeping generalizations and casting aspersions of guilt on an innocuous neutral experience or medium. It is human beings that make choices about the tools we use, not the tools themselves. Only to use as a basis to chip away certain rights and freedoms under the guise of evil and protection. But it is our freedoms and rights that must be protected.  According to a story in the Guardian, the “Senate judiciary committee voted on Thursday to advance the Earn It (“ Eliminating Abuse and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technology”)  Act, legislation that on paper is intended to address sexual exploitation. However, privacy experts say the act would give the Department of Justice unprecedented power over the internet and potentially threaten the privacy of messages sent online...”( https://apple.news/AxfBbr4CPRXWajeHDfDt6cA ) The bill while is intended for good, may trample and interfere with our freedoms and privacy, ...

We the American People MUST start to question and find suspicious, decisions made by our Leaders as some decisions are based in assumptions that ultimately deny and negate our Constitutional Rights and Freedoms.    In Seattle today, Police are clearing the CHOP zone and making arrests after mayor orders protesters to leave. Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said she supports peaceful protests but "enough is enough. The CHOP has become lawless and brutal.” Barr said in a statement , "The message of today’s action is simple but significant: the #Constitution protects the right to speak and assemble freely, but it provides no right to commit violence or defy the #law,".   In effect the AG and Seattle Police chief have made a decision from a false claim based on a premise that is not been proven to be true, subtly drawing the correlation between the protesters right to assemble freely and their committal of violence or the defiance of the law by said pr...