Apartheid fell out of step with neoliberal globalization’s individualism

Evidence

By the late 1980s the South African economy was deeply depressed, foreign economic and political support had taken flight. Globalizing forces of political economy were emphasizing the neoliberalizing individualization of social life with which collective emphases of apartheid were considered deeply at odds. Along ironically with soviet collectivism to which it took itself to be so opposed, and for intersecting reasons, apartheid had fallen dramatically out of step with the times. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1566 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anticipatory threats of dissolution and extinction drove apartheid’s creation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1505; Apartheid collapsed partly because its collectivism clashed with global neoliberal individualism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1566; Neoliberalism reflated the autonomous individual to break social democratic collectivism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1944 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Apartheid collapsed partly because its collectivism clashed with global neoliberal individualism #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1566