<div><font size="4">Human Rights Reader 243 <br> <br>WE ARE REALLY IN CLOUD CUCKOOLAND IF WE ACCEPT THAT NEOLIBERALISM IS A BENIGN SOCIAL IDEA THAT BACKS THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK. (Theodore MacDonald)<br> <br> People in a healthy society are mindful of the human rights of all of its members.<br>
<br>In neoliberal orthodoxy, certain inalienable laws govern the give-and-take of market forces and to interfere with the self-regulation of markets is to court economic suicide. In that sense, the neoliberal outlook regards market forces as being akin to the great force fields in physics, such as magnetism or thermodynamics. In other words, like these other forces, humans must respond according to the laws of the market or face annihilation. The entire edifice of neoliberla rationality and certainty is thus based purely on the basis of financial<u> considerations</u>.*<br>
*: This outlook is, for sure, not new. It just has had a number of incarnations since the early days of history; we now call it neoliberalism. <br> <br>But to mediate in conflicts between interests and, for sure, to defuse human rights (HR) violations, it is the government that must play the dominant role…That is why we invented it! Therefore, such ideas as markets being allowed to make major social, political and HR decisions without the mediating influence of the government as a duty bearer are simply nonsense. No wonder democracy is seen as an obstacle, as a barrier by the proponents of orthodox neoberalism. </font></div>
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