As Mark Sumner points out, Trump tried to roll-back regulations only to screw over his initiatives and by ineptitude, actually reinforce the strength and leadership of California auto emissions regulations again.
Trump tweeted some doubletalk and invoked the memory of Henry Ford, antisemite and admirer of that guy who annexed the Sudetenland.
Was this another piece of stupid advice from his RW brain trust or was Trump simply winging it as usual with an inadvertent dog whistle. Clever by half is our Donnie, messaging to his base while reinforcing other antisemitic memes on the same day.
As important as Fordism was for the growth of the US economy and winning WWII, it also has a variety of more problematic contemporary social issues including the role in certain lines of Nazi thought influenced by US race policy.
Fordism is the basis of modern economic and social systems in industrialized, standardized mass production and mass consumption. The concept is named for Henry Ford . It is used in social , economic , and management theory about production , working conditions , consumption , and related phenomena, especially regarding the 20th century.
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The period after Fordism has been termed Post-Fordist and Neo-Fordist. The former implies that global capitalism has made a clean break from Fordism, including overcoming its inconsistencies, but the latter implies that elements of the Fordist ROA continued to exist. The Regulation School preferred the term After-Fordism (or the French Après-Fordisme) to denote that what comes after Fordism was or is not clear.[16]
In Post-Fordist economies:[16]
- New information technologies are important.
- Products are marketed to niche markets rather than in mass consumption patterns based on social class.
- Service industries predominate over manufacturing.
- The workforce is feminized.
- Financial markets are globalized.
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Mark Fisher defined three underlying Reals.
- First, the environmental catastrophe, which capitalist realism to some extent incorporated into its marketing, but whose real implications were too traumatic for the system to acknowledge.
- Second, widespread mental distress, worsening under the neoliberal regime, which capitalist realism dealt with by privatization—making mental health an individual problem, a failure to live up to the capitalist-realist imperative of ‘looking and feeling good’.
- Third, the proliferation of bureaucracy, which neoliberalism had promised to abolish.
His book focused especially on the last two, since the environmental crisis was already becoming politicized, while mental health and bureaucracy were not.
the global capital which does not have any particular affinity with any ‘nation’ may not reverse the process of ‘flexible accumulation’ given the long-term pay-offs of the multiple-interdependence. Ford Motors and Apple Inc. know—more than anybody else in this world—that they cannot afford to alienate the global market for the self-glory and brinkmanship of the tenant in the White House.
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