Review article

NEOLIBERALISM AS A NEW IMPERIALISM

Slobodan Milić orcid.org/0000-0002-7322-5986 *

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

In this paper, the author deals from a socio-economic perspective, with the neoliberal doctrine that has occupied society for more than thirty years. As the leading ideology of modern society, neoliberalism has become the main target of criticism by many authors for the increasing inequalities in the world. Despite the growing inequalities
affecting today's world, we live in a consumer society. A society where man is a wolf to man, in which multinational corporations determine what is in trend and what is not, in a world where consumerism has long prevailed. And while we, purchasing various,
often redundant goods, satisfy our own needs, multinational corporations are privatizing what we cannot buy, and those are the natural resources of our countries. Workers who lost their jobs or today work as cheap labor felt the best what is the cruel world of multinational corporations. In this regard, the author views neoliberalism as a new type of imperialism, i.e., (neo)imperialism, which served the purpose of multinational corporations, and that the story of freedom is just a myth of neoliberal dogma.

Keywords

neoliberalism, multinational corporations, imperialism

Hrčak ID:

343959

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/343959

Publication date:

15.9.2021.

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