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Yes, I agree a definitional bibliography essay including key sources would be something I'd want to see. I see there's a way to pin such an essay at the top of the postings list. It won't get done tomorrow. It would also be capable of editing and updating.

Yes, it was a sketch, not the beginning of a lecture series. You can read the series of Xi's speeches and the APEC Leaders' Declaration to see what direction we might head.

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we may get folks weighing in here in the comments with links they feel may be appropriate to the endeavour, though. :)

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OK Then. (some research links)

Neocolonialism as Financial Imperialism and Alliance of Transnational Elites

Neoliberalism is inseparable from imperialism and globalization

https://softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Political_skeptic/Neocolonialism/index.shtml

Neoliberalism -- a new, more dangerous form of Corporatism (Fascism)

https://softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Political_skeptic/Neoliberalism/index.shtml

and

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/58620/1/Six_Theories_of_Neoliberalism.pdf

and

the road from mont pèlerin - The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (in 1947)

http://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/mt-pelerin.pdf

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Thank you for that. I appreciate it.

Your links, a couple of comments after a quick look around:

The first one looks interesting but immediately provided a link to define 'neoliberalism' which took me straight to the second one.

and it defines it as 'internal colonialism' but doesn't define further

but I found a link: 'neoliberalism: a primer' and the first thing it says is that the term is interchangeable with 'casino capitalism'

and it defined 'casino capitalism' perhaps by reference to a phrase my John Maynard Keynes and then immediately featured a quote (with pic) from a book 'Tragedy and Hope...' by Prof Quigley (1966).

It (the quote) seemed to be all about 'financial capitalism' which it doesn't define but 'the powers' of it had an aim. That aim seems to have been a pyramid of control world wide topped by the Bank for International Settlements in Basle. It goes on to say that the growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralisation of power and the use of it for direct benefit of financiers and indirect injury of all others.

So I then turned to the third link and the book (?) mt-pelerin which immediately claimed neoliberalism is anything but a succinct clearly defined political philosophy.

And then proceeds to muddy the waters entirely by throwing in streams of abstruse references.

So essentially I now believe 'neoliberalism' to an ill defined and (therefore) poorly understood concept liable to be thrown around by all and sundry to the confusion of the masses and often, possible, for precisely that purpose.

I do find softpanorama an interesting a potentially valuable site for its interest in Unix and TCP/IP. So I'm very happy to have that brought to my attention.

Thank you for it. :)

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