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From what I learned during my upbringing, he’s got some Pontius Pilot vibes going on where he’s trying to wash his hands clean of neoliberal capitalism but his hands are still stained with guilt no matter how hard he tries.
From the comments:
From what I learned during my upbringing, he’s got some Pontius Pilot vibes going on where he’s trying to wash his hands clean of neoliberal capitalism but his hands are still stained with guilt no matter how hard he tries.
There are very obvious precursors to neoliberalism like Von Mises and then Hayek. Who also oversaw humanity annihilating nature in rapacious amounts that was only limited by the relatively smaller population size of humanity.
Adam Smith's vile maxim is pretty close to the basis of a lot of neoliberal thought too.
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They had financial capital in the 1800s. This is just liberal revisionism.
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Michael Hudson just wrote a book about this. Very timely! Maybe we should advocate for it for the next book club book?
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Saying neoliberalism is some new form of capitalism is more liberal than what he's saying.