The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa)
"1. The domestic policies of the BRICS states follow the general tenor of what one might consider Neoliberalism with Southern Characteristics.
2. The BRICS alliance has not been able to create a new institutional foundation for its emergent authority. It continues to plead for a more democratic United Nations, and for more democracy at the IMF and the World Bank.
3. The BRICS formation has not endorsed an ideological alternative to neoliberalism.
4. Finally, the BRICS project has no ability to sequester the military dominance of the United States and NATO... The force-projection of the United States remains planetary.
If we look into the entrails of the system, we will find that its solutions do not lie within it. Its problems are not technical, nor are they cultural. They are social problems that require political solutions. The social order of property, propriety, and power has to be radically revised..."
—Vijay Prashad, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, 2014 ed., pp. 10-11
"1. The domestic policies of the BRICS states follow the general tenor of what one might consider Neoliberalism with Southern Characteristics.
2. The BRICS alliance has not been able to create a new institutional foundation for its emergent authority. It continues to plead for a more democratic United Nations, and for more democracy at the IMF and the World Bank.
3. The BRICS formation has not endorsed an ideological alternative to neoliberalism.
4. Finally, the BRICS project has no ability to sequester the military dominance of the United States and NATO... The force-projection of the United States remains planetary.
If we look into the entrails of the system, we will find that its solutions do not lie within it. Its problems are not technical, nor are they cultural. They are social problems that require political solutions. The social order of property, propriety, and power has to be radically revised..."
—Vijay Prashad, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, 2014 ed., pp. 10-11
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