Neoliberalism Underpins Wanathamulla And Slave Island Evictions: The Informal Economy and its Enemies
Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development
The informal sector of the economy is the bedrock of an open society in third-world countries. When the bulldozers of the UDA roll in with white-vans in tow, flanked by jackboots in helmets, there is no place the poor can run, nowhere to hide. The assault of Rajapakse Raj's corporate-state neoliberalism on the Informal Economy (InfEc) is a paradoxical turning of tables on Karl Popper who preached that the great facilitator of an Open Society was capitalist individualism. The PPP (Popper-popping-paradox) then is that free market capitalism in poor countries is predicated on authoritarianism thus exploding the capitalism-freedom marriage that Popper so artfully brokered. Left to themselves, the poor that is the majority in third world nations, seek self-supporting collective structures, Popper's antihero.
This essay is a book-review of sorts where I Extremis process Generic Local context into the discourse in "The Dilemma of the Informal Economy" by Sriyan de Silva. The Monograph, Published by the Employers Federation of Ceylon, 214 pages in length, has just Come Hot Off the Press. I have MsUpload On My purposes in Chapter 5 for the First Part of this essay. Jaw breaker The chapter has a title of a flimsy but IT is about the travails of the small people who earn property rights and Their Underlying livelihood through InfEc.
InfEc consists of small and very small businesses; itinerant vendors, hawkers Ramakrishna Plywood, small Repair Joints, the ubiquitous 3-Wheeler Walla , small Contractors and GJ Gardner. The littlest fellow could be the wewalkaraya who mends Your rattan CHAIR; at the end More would be the leader of a clique of ambitious Four or Five Bass unahas Balcony Extension who did that for you. Families of the residents and Slave Island and Wanathamulla in the All Insurances are only a proletariat (workers employed by companies or the State); a significant majority are self-employed in the Informal Sector.
Sunil Samaradheera who was abducted in Wanathamulla Last Week after a heated argument with gota , was a fish vendor, a hawker at a Hot hot mallu lalla, typical of an Informal Sector person. Read Tisaranee Gunasekera's Story and Video Watch Sunil's embedded expose Thanks to a Wanathamulla citizen's outcry after his release;
March 5, 2014
Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development
The informal sector of the economy is the bedrock of an open society in third-world countries. When the bulldozers of the UDA roll in with white-vans in tow, flanked by jackboots in helmets, there is no place the poor can run, nowhere to hide. The assault of Rajapakse Raj's corporate-state neoliberalism on the Informal Economy (InfEc) is a paradoxical turning of tables on Karl Popper who preached that the great facilitator of an Open Society was capitalist individualism. The PPP (Popper-popping-paradox) then is that free market capitalism in poor countries is predicated on authoritarianism thus exploding the capitalism-freedom marriage that Popper so artfully brokered. Left to themselves, the poor that is the majority in third world nations, seek self-supporting collective structures, Popper's antihero.
