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This book is about the Anatomy of Neoliberalism and Education from a Marxist perspective. It is the dialectical materialism of neoliberal ideas, examining the material conditions of how these ideas and practices emerged, and under what conditions. Each of these elements is related to the other and can only be properly understood as part and parcel of the whole system of capitalism, which links them together. This book investigates neoliberalism's political, cultural, and financial tools. It goes deep in the forces who have supported neoliberalism and how it became ""common sense"". It explores the imperialist outcomes and the social devastation it created. It then goes to see how these ideas and policies have been implemented in education. In short, it is the materialist conception of the history of the American empire. It then uses the analytic tools developed through this investigation to re-read the neoliberal educational reforms.

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There is an urgent need to understand how neoliberal fascism presents a threat to education and the most vital institutions of society. Maria Nikolakaki' s book develops a critical and extraordinary analysis of both the limits of capitalism and its merging into a fascist politics. A must read for anyone who wants to both understand and work to overcome the current neoliberal tyranny that is spreading across the globe. - Henry Giroux, McMaster University This is a ground-breaking, scholarly, and profoundly insightful study of the impact of neoliberalism on education. It reveals the ideological roots of the neoliberal takeover of education, its roots, distortions and limitations, and its links to fascist ideology. This book is a must-read to academics and students working in the field. - Alfredo Saad-Filho, King's College This is a vibrant, Marxist book, robust, rigorous and revolutionary. It's distinctiveness is its tying in fascism and imperialism to neoliberalism, historically, ideologically and politically. Maria Nikolakaki, -well known Marxist education activist in Greece and internationally, investigates neoliberalism's political, cultural/ ideological, and financial tools, foregrounding Marxist class analysis and Resistance. She does this with a biting and controlled and analytical anger. This is a very valuable book! - Dave Hill, Editor, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies; Anglia Ruskin University Utilizing an interdisciplinary Marxist analyses, the authors examine the current, perversive neoliberal regime that ruthlessly controls society through a steady withering of democracy, dismantling of the welfare state, weakening education, decimation of the working classes, and the perpetuation of income inequality. Yet, neoliberalism needed a new prop to sustain its regime-enter neo-fascism. Handily, this book explicates how the neo-fascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis by denoting that the only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance. While these two regimes appear as strange bedfellows, the neo-fascists back neoliberal corporate capitalism. .Needless to say, this is a must read for anyone concerned with these dangerous anti-democratic linkages. - Sheila Macrine, UMASS Boston The volume presents an opportunity to engage critically with Neoliberalism in totality. It brings in education and knowledge production within the debate not merely as an instrument implemented by the hegemonic powers but as a socio, economic, political and cultural process. The strength of this volume lies in the way it weaves different dimensions of a phenomenon transcending the disciplinary boundaries. - Ravi Kumar, South Asian University, New Delhi

There is an urgent need to understand how neoliberal fascism presents a threat to education and the most vital institutions of society. Maria Nikolakaki' s book develops a critical and extraordinary analysis of both the limits of capitalism and its merging into a fascist politics. A must read for anyone who wants to both understand and work to overcome the current neoliberal tyranny that is spreading across the globe. - Henry Giroux, McMaster University This is a ground-breaking, scholarly, and profoundly insightful study of the impact of neoliberalism on education. It reveals the ideological roots of the neoliberal takeover of education, its roots, distortions and limitations, and its links to fascist ideology. This book is a must-read to academics and students working in the field. - Alfredo Saad-Filho, King's College This is a vibrant, Marxist book, robust, rigorous and revolutionary. It's distinctiveness is its tying in fascism and imperialism to neoliberalism, historically, ideologically and politically. Maria Nikolakaki, -well known Marxist education activist in Greece and internationally, investigates neoliberalism's political, cultural/ ideological, and financial tools, foregrounding Marxist class analysis and Resistance. She does this with a biting and controlled and analytical anger. This is a very valuable book! - Dave Hill, Editor, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies; Anglia Ruskin University Utilizing an interdisciplinary Marxist analyses, the authors examine the current, perversive neoliberal regime that ruthlessly controls society through a steady withering of democracy, dismantling of the welfare state, weakening education, decimation of the working classes, and the perpetuation of income inequality. Yet, neoliberalism needed a new prop to sustain its regime-enter neo-fascism. Handily, this book explicates how the neo-fascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis by denoting that the only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance. While these two regimes appear as strange bedfellows, the neo-fascists back neoliberal corporate capitalism. .Needless to say, this is a must read for anyone concerned with these dangerous anti-democratic linkages. - Sheila Macrine, UMASS Boston The volume presents an opportunity to engage critically with Neoliberalism in totality. It brings in education and knowledge production within the debate not merely as an instrument implemented by the hegemonic powers but as a socio, economic, political and cultural process. The strength of this volume lies in the way it weaves different dimensions of a phenomenon transcending the disciplinary boundaries. - Ravi Kumar, South Asian University, New Delhi

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