Austerity policies required sacrificing the welfare of most British citizens
Evidence
Niemeyer heavily underlined and annotated the memorandum. Th e document, like many others, attests to the general awareness of the primary political issue at stake: austerity policies had at their basis the sacrifi ce of the vast majority of British citizens. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 860
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated thesis that austerity functions as a class weapon — this passage is direct evidence of the sacrifice dimension. — connects to: British austerity served foreign holders of sterling assets more than domestic workers — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 513; Austerity shifted welfare back to families financed by private household debt — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 247; Röpke proposed abolishing the welfare state except for a bare minimum — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 214 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Austerity cuts aimed to permanently prevent welfare-state restoration in Britain
#expands(0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 974 - Osborne’s austerity cuts aimed to make the welfare state’s return impossible
#expands(0.85) - Austerity is state intervention transferring resources from the many to the few
#expands(0.82) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 195 - Austerity is a recurring policy suite that entrenches wealth and private primacy
#expands(0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 21 - Austerity frames national crisis as requiring patriotic individual sacrifice in frugality and labor
#expands(0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 803 - Neoliberal policy requires means-tested minimalism and bans universal provision
#expands(0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 208 - Austerity transforms neoliberal rationality from freedom toward sacrifice.
#expands(0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 135