preaching to the choir here but, the reason why r/neoliberal is so confusing a sub is because neoliberalism isn't an ideology. I'm not saying Neoliberalism doesn't exist but that its just plain old stale liberalism. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can educate me but as far as I know none of these people they idolize: Reagan, Biden, Friedman, Pelosi, Hayek, George, ever specifically refer to themselves as Neoliberal. The only unifying factor among all these losers that refer to themselves specifically as Neoliberal is that someone with a rose emoji told them to fuck off and probably called them one. So they are basically all just too online liberals whose only unifying factor is their hate for the left and socialism. I make it a point to specifically tag anyone who uses that sub and never engage with them, they are always online and always cringe.
It's a sub for losers who got owned by socialists online. That's why it's always cringe. It is a reaction to the heightened contradictions and the status quo's inability to reconcile them. It's cogitative dissonance, the sub.
Neoliberalism is an actual ideology/political project that is distinct from classical liberalism. If I remember right Friedman, Hayek and the other members of the Mont Pelerin society called themseves Neoliberals in their early days, until they realized they could be more effective in spreading their ideas if they masked them as regular economics instead of labelling them as a new political ideology.
If you want to know more I'd recommend checking out the work of Phillip Mirowski, who is a historian that specializes in neoliberalism and the history of economics.
preaching to the choir here but, the reason why r/neoliberal is so confusing a sub is because neoliberalism isn't an ideology. I'm not saying Neoliberalism doesn't exist but that its just plain old stale liberalism. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can educate me but as far as I know none of these people they idolize: Reagan, Biden, Friedman, Pelosi, Hayek, George, ever specifically refer to themselves as Neoliberal. The only unifying factor among all these losers that refer to themselves specifically as Neoliberal is that someone with a rose emoji told them to fuck off and probably called them one. So they are basically all just too online liberals whose only unifying factor is their hate for the left and socialism. I make it a point to specifically tag anyone who uses that sub and never engage with them, they are always online and always cringe.
It's a sub for losers who got owned by socialists online. That's why it's always cringe. It is a reaction to the heightened contradictions and the status quo's inability to reconcile them. It's cogitative dissonance, the sub.
Neoliberalism is an actual ideology/political project that is distinct from classical liberalism. If I remember right Friedman, Hayek and the other members of the Mont Pelerin society called themseves Neoliberals in their early days, until they realized they could be more effective in spreading their ideas if they masked them as regular economics instead of labelling them as a new political ideology.
If you want to know more I'd recommend checking out the work of Phillip Mirowski, who is a historian that specializes in neoliberalism and the history of economics.
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