Why aren't you a neoliberal user?

Your just cherry picking the data that agrees with you.
Japan pre-WW2 was shit and you know it.

>You're*

It was shit, but it was *imperialist* shit, and in many respects, worse than Nazi Germany. But unlike Germany, Japanese war criminals never faced trial, and the country was propped up by massive 'investments' from the U.S. instead of dividing between western and eastern (bloc) influences. Japan today seems to be stuck in its early-2000s phase, but no one wants to call Japan on its bullshit because of a constant stream of hyper-consumerism (in the forms of anime and vidya) and cultural fetishization.

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Look at all of these ideological children try and defend their ridiculous political beliefs while Neo-Liberalism does all of the actual work.
Let's laugh at them.
>Fuck communism.
>Fuck fascism.

>the country was propped up by massive 'investments' from the U.S.
So therefore it's all bullshit because a capitalist system improved their standard of living dramatically.
You commies and leftists are ridiculous.

It did not 'improve' their standard of living, not by a long-shot. The money went to the government, which later wasted it on itself and the military industrial complex, specifically to 'counter and contain' the PRC and the DPRK, respectively. The people themselves however began to work longer hours, had less buying power (regular folks), less collective bargaining power (do the Japanese even have labor unions? no, right?), and their voice in the political sphere. Similarly, this happened throughout Latin America as well as a direct result of American interference through military coups and the installation of junta dictatorships that were subservient to American interests.

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>The money went to the government, which later wasted it on itself and the military industrial complex
>The people themselves however began to work longer hours, had less buying power
user.
You just described socialism. So it didn't work?
No shit.
So Communism will fix it, right.

Further, consider the case of south Korea's U.S.-appointed presidents from Rhee to Roh (Tae-woo), as the southern half of the Peninsula was under direct and later indirect control by the U.S. government and its military industrial complex (a series of military installations throughout the south).

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Because I don’t want my tax dollars being used to bomb children

>You just described socialism
No, I just described capitalism, and how it needs constant government interference and direction to prevent collapse.

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Does it actually disdain wokism? It seems that western neo-liberal democracies are at the mercy of the woke at the moment. See: Canada

>Thinks imperialism is neo-liberalism.
>Definition: Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.
You just have a hate boner for Americans.

See,
But you sure do love cheaper gas prices, huh?

Nope.
That's called regulation.
Don't conflate things to win an argument.

Leftism and wokeism is a completely separate cancer user.
Yes you can have your cake and eat it too. That's the beauty of balance and common sense.
Fuck ideology.

Imperialism is capitalism in decay, and neo-liberalism is the dominance of finance capital (concomitant with the military industrial complex) to ensure that. Breaking down the Bretton Woods system was the start of the current age.

>Regulation
is *not* when workers lose power. Now you're grasping for straws and trying to change the definition of things.

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Just a minute ago, you said it was socialism. Now you're trying to conflate socialism with regulation under capitalism.

No you just have a bias towards communism and it's showing.
It fails and it will fail again.
People are individuals user. They like cheeseburgers, fast cars, porn, and cable TV.
Get over it.

Nope you're just an idiot.
Regulation is not socialism because the means of production are not being transferred to the collective.
And here's a definition for you since you're too lazy to look it up,
>a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

>you have a bias toward communism
Did I not say earlier that I actually am one?
>it fails and will fail again
Pic related. If that were true, you would not have had to spend trillions in tax payer money since 1945 to 'counter' it with proxy wars and sabotage campaigns.
>people are individuals
and we're depriving no man (or woman) of their individuality.

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kys faggot you belong in an incinerator

Yes that's what a bias means.
You're an ideologue. You care more about your beliefs about politics than what actually works.

>definition
Good. Since you can read, don't say I just 'defined' socialism after I merely pointed out what is and has been going on in Japan. Actually study their political economy and how it functions, and maybe talk to a few Japanese people themselves to see how 'great' it is for them.

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Your ideology is what needs to be burned user.
Let's get a book burning going. I'll be sure to throw in Mein Kampf and The Manifesto for all the lurkers here too.

>You care more about your beliefs about politics
Meanwhile, here you've equated people's ostensible affinity for neo-liberalism (which no one in the real world would declare) with consumerism and a sedentary lifestyle. Neo-liberalism 'works,' sure, but not for you or myself.

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You have no point because you want me to agree with your bias and I'm not going to.
I recommend you take this user's suggestion,
Bet you call yourself and intellectual too.

You're just in denial that ideology doesn't work, and yours is no exception.
Open your mind and you'll see you're being a willful moron.
People like neoliberalism. They want shit and they want it cheap while being free.
Stay envious.

I don't care if you agree or disagree. Material realities and their consequences are objective. Though, I notice no one has agreed with you on the apparent exceptionalism of neo-liberalism and *its* consequences.

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Do people 'like' neo-liberalism? Or do they just have reflexive impotency after decades of living under capitalist realism and an unending stream of its propaganda?

Open *your* mind, and a book or two while you're at it.

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>Material realities and their consequences are objective.
I'll give it to you that that does somewhat sound deep and thoughtful but then you realize people don't care.
What people want is stuff, liberty, and right.
Not your beliefs about it.

They do actually because they consume and vote that way.
They're only ideological on the internet and in their private lives.
But at the end of the day they want a simple life. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Who are you to speak on what people want? On what or whose authority do you base this? Again, it seems like your ideology is predicated on (seemingly) easy access to (also seemingly) unending consumerism and apolitical passivity. A dangerous precedent.

So again, they want to consume (by your metric), and nothing else. Seems like you're coming from a chauvinistic mindset that is both parochial and indicative of only having one perspective rooted in, again, consumerism.

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