John comments the main social transformations that neoliberalism brought about.
An interview conducted by Florin Faje and Alina-Sandra Cucu (Central European University) with John Clarke has just been transcribed and can be found in the LeftEast section of CriticAtac.
In this interview conducted in March 2013 in Budapest, John Clarke evokes the main social transformations that neoliberalism brought about.
He examines the rhetoric and practice of free markets and what, according to him, is central to neoliberalism: the attempt to write inequality out of a social and political story.
While commenting on organized unequal distributions, the move from social welfare to corporate welfare, John underlines how this process makes the work of welfare a possible site for capital accumulation. He also underlines specific characteristics of the British system: a sense of suspicion and subcontracting tendencies that have accompanied and construct the way welfare is understood in the UK.
John then answers questions about the state of the British Left today. He emphasizes the problematic anti-capitalist logic when folded into a national set of calculations and into some nationalist presumptions, and also to what extend neoliberal logics trouble the Left.
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