Milei on Neo-Marxism

"Today, states don’t need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals.” - Javier Milei

From Javier Milei’s speech at Davos:

“All that this radical feminism agenda has led to is greater state intervention to hinder the economic process, giving a job to bureaucrats who have not contributed anything to society. Examples: ministries of women, or international organizations devoted to promoting this agenda.

Another conflict presented by socialists is that of humans against nature. Claiming that we, humans beings, damage the planet which should be protected at all costs. Even going as far as advocating for population control mechanisms, or the bloody abortion agenda.

Unfortunately, these harmful ideas have taken a strong hold in our society. Neo-Marxists have managed to co-opt the common sense of the Western world. And this, they have achieved by appropriating the media, culture, universities, and also, international organizations. The latter case is the most serious one, probably, because these are institutions that have enormous influence on political and economic decisions of the countries that make up the multilateral organizations.

Fortunately, there’s more and more of us that dare make our voices heard, because we see that if we don’t truly and decisively fight against these ideas, the only possible fate is for us to have increasing levels of state regulations, socialism, poverty, and less freedom, and therefore we’ll be having worse standards of living.

The West has unfortunately already started to go along this path. I know to many it may sound ridiculous to suggest that the West has turned to socialism, but it’s only ridiculous if you only limit yourself to the traditional economic definition of socialism, which says that it’s an economic system where the state owns the means of production.

This definition, in my view, should be updated in light of current circumstances. Today, states don’t need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals.” - Javier Milei

WATCH Milei’s full speech with my reactions here:

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