Javier Milei warns Davos: Social justice puts the West ‘in danger’

Published January 17, 2024 1:58pm ET



Argentine President Javier Milei warned a forum of international economic elites that their growing embrace of “collectivist” ideology in the name of social justice has endangered Western society.

“I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger,” Milei told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others and others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste, many leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism.”

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