How some liberals/neo-Keynesians are digging to justify why governments should play a big role in the economy. A ‘new’ form of capitalism is a necessary in order to get out of the crisis and prevent any possible social unrest. What 2008/09 and the pandemic have demonstrated is that monopoly capitalism has to change for the system to survive. That Biden, for example, has introduced a big stimulus package and revoked Trump’s cuts in corporate tax reflects the uneasiness of the ruling classes and that a few things have to be done. The Woman Who ‘Shattered the Myth ’
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51