Thatcher called him an "intellectual freedom fighter".... That's code for screwing the working class.
She will miss also his "wisdom and mordant humour.."
When is she gonna kick the bucket..? Oh when will that happy hour approach..
Don't forget the piles of skulls that needed to be created before Milton's theories could be put to the test...
I don't think I'll shed any tears for this "freedom fighter".
Perhaps more critically, Friedman was just part of the usual movement to deal with crisis by clamping down on workers and any advances they might have made. I wonder what would have happened had he and his cronies had no influence? I suspect that the same neoliberal rubbish would have emerged, but perhaps expressed in different form.
Or maybe not - was this a case of the ideological superstructure determining some part of the base? What do others think?
RIP all those whose lives were destroyed by this ideological despot. Good riddance to him.
Thatcher and Reagan are often concidered the founders of neo-liberalism but its worth remembering that Pinochet was the original pioneer.
as I have discussed the economics of Friedman was incoherent, was it just a cover for screwing down wages and weakening union power, I think we might say yes
Cherry on top: his new pension scheme in Chile was for everyone except the police and the army.
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