The Road to Neoliberalism: The 12,000 Year War | Kristen Ghodsee, Yanis Varoufakis, Guy Standing...

The late 20th century saw the rise of a new economic theory which has devastated the middle class and seen an unprecedented upward transfer of wealth to the richest members of our society. Born from the work of Milton Friedman, this theory is known as Neoliberalism, and was popularised by Ronald Reagan in the United States, Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom, and Augusto Pinochet in Chile. But, where did this radical movement come from? How did our species - once focused on collective power and the importance of the group - allow oligarchs, mega-corporations, and private interest to take control of the money supply? #history #politics #artificialintelligence #capitalism #technofeudalism #latestagecapitalism #neoliberalism Debates and talks featured (all are available on iai.tv with a free trial): Noble Ancestors and Modern Selves (2015) https://iai.tv/video/noble-ancestors-... Utopian Living (2024) https://iai.tv/video/utopian-living?u... The Politics of Time (2024) https://iai.tv/video/the-politics-of-... Medicine: The Need for a New Paradigm (2024) https://iai.tv/iai-academy/courses/in... Democratic Capitalism in Crisis (2024) https://iai.tv/video/democratic-capit... A Politics for the Future (2025) https://iai.tv/video/a-politics-for-t... Economic Fact and Economic Fantasy (2024) https://iai.tv/video/economic-fact-an... The Enlightenment and its Alternatives (2023) https://iai.tv/video/the-enlightenmen... How The Brain Works: To be released Dive into our full archive, including more debates and solo talks from the speakers you see here and more. Politics channel: https://iai.tv/debates-and-talks?chan... 00:00 Introduction 01:00 CHAPTER ONE: Prehistory, Classical Antiquity, and the Agricultural Revolution 01:07 Bruce Parry: The lives of hunter-gatherers 02:50 Kristen Ghodsee: Communal living in Neolithic Turkey 08:10 Guy Standing: Ancient Greece and the right to common 09:59 CHAPTER TWO: The Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution 10:05 Guy Standing: The Magna Carta, The Tudors, and the origins of capitalism 12:25 John Mearsheimer: The sanctity of the individual 13:31 David Healy: The French Revolution, Karl Marx, and the rise of bureaucracy 19:44 CHAPTER THREE: Neoliberalism, Financial Collapse, and the Digital Revolution 19:52 David Healy: Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and a new economic models 24:38 Will Hutton: The devastating impact of privatisation 27:09 Martin Wolf: Attacks on trade unions and public power 30:10 Yanis Varoufakis: On the 2008 Financial Crisis 31:03 CHAPTER FOUR: What does the future hold? 31:11 Martin Wolf: Oligarchy and the failures of the mainstream media 34:18 Guy Standing: Universal Basic Income 36:51 Iain McGilchrist: Artificial intelligence and the hemispheres of the brain 40:03 David Healy: The Last Judgement, AI apocalypse, and the power of the people All images are sources from Wikicommons, World History, Flickr, , Picryl, and GetArchive Credit to: fmpgoh Levan Ramishvili