Journal Article

À PROPOS DE LA GRANDE BIFURCATION. EN FINIR AVEC LE NÉOLIBÉRALISME

TINEL, Bruno, LÉVY, Dominique, DUMÉNIL, Gérard

2014

Overview

Bruno Tinel questions Duménil and Lévy (DL) about their new book, La Découverte. Besides the paths currently taken by the United-States and Europe in the wake of the 2008 crisis—the continuation of a dynamics weighted in favour of upper classes—there is an alternative path to the left that is here opened up: hence the “bifurcation”. DL go further in their Marxist-inspired diagnosis. Neoliberalism is described as a social order strategically biased to the power and income of capitalist classes and their allies, the managerial classes. The book draws a contrast between American-English neoliberalism and the configurations observed in Europe. A series of new findings provides the basis for a concrete analysis of the worldwide structures of ownership and control; the crisis in Europe is investigated by way of the contrasting trajectories of France and Germany, while special emphasis is placed on the Spanish economy. DL argue that, as was the case in the decades immediately following World War II, a new alliance between popular and managerial classes is required, to be established at a European level, but with the aim of transcending the latter level.

• Publisher: Humensis
• Subject: ENTReTIeN