Slaughtering Neoliberalism before it Slaughters Us

The onslaught of Neoliberalism has pushed humans, earth, and other species to the brink of extinction just for its insatiable lust for profit. In the current neoliberal economies, basic social services from health and education to clean water and proper sanitation cease to exist and are marketized. The privatization of public enterprises is not a panacea in any way to the domestic economic ailment. It just opens the way for conglomerates to get state entities for peanuts, thereby exploiting state resources by laying off the workforce, cutting benefits, busting labor unions, among other acts of exploitation. Worse still, the neoliberal conglomerates have assumed control of the air we breathe, the land we stand, the water we drink, and the ideas we think. In broad terms, they are on the cusp of commodifying the very life we live. What is even more appalling is that just when the pandemic is raging unabated, ravaging life and livelihoods around the globe, the neoliberal market forces have profited off of people’s difficulties by inflating prices of masks, gloves, personal protection equipment, and numerous life-saving drugs. Still, a bonanza that vaccine brings to them will make some billionaires to the detriment of the people’s lives to whom shot of immunization will not be readily available owing to their pauperism. In all candor, neoliberalism has turned many homo sapiens having humane nature to homo economicus with economic nature, whose decisions solely are for amassing profit no matter what devastation they bring upon or what ecology they reduce to rubble. Current climactic climate change is also the inevitable corollary of the recent configuration of capitalism- neoliberalism; it has put human and other species’ survival in jeopardy. Neoliberalism is also the culprit behind reducing democracies into corporatocracies. By giving kickbacks to law-makers, corporations hold more sway in power corridors than the people do. All told, neoliberalism is neocolonialism in short.