Claudio Gallo on RT.com: My apparently weird thesis is: the neoliberal system ruling directly or indirectly the greater part of the world is producing a disastrous anthropological mutation that is leading to a kind of planetary totalitarianism.

First let's clarify the lexis. Neoliberalism is generally an economic philosophy established in the 20th century by figures like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.

Typical of that thought is the belief that the only unifying feature of society is the individual, together with the faith that the free market can regulate society better by itself than any external regulation.

Neoliberals are always in favor of any deregulation and privatization. Historically the market's auto-regulation is known as the classical liberal theory of the invisible hand. Usually it is attributed to Adam Smith, although the Scottish economist used it very rarely and apparently with a more restricted meaning.

Anyway, the invisible hand is now forming an integral part of the neoliberal theory, which considers any public intervention in the economy to be the work of the devil. The magic power of the invisible hand needs a society of pure individuals to work: everyone pursuing their best interest, the healthy egoism of society's atoms.

Alchemically, this composite of egoisms will result in maximized benefit for the entire society. It is a machine that never stops, a "perpetuum mobile' [perpetual motion] in which unlimited production goes with unlimited desire. There are literally no limits.

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