Austerity spans party lines and is often wielded by nominally left governments

Evidence

Austerity consists of a set of economic policies implemented by governmental institutions that cut across party lines. Often, it is paradoxically the self-styled left that leverages austerity. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 141

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Provides the working definition of austerity the whole chapter builds on.

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• Austerity is structural to capitalism, not a 1970s neoliberal aberration. (similarity 0.83)
• Austerity architects saw their policies as objective necessity, not repression (similarity 0.81)
• Austerity is a permanent structural rule, not a 1970s anomaly (similarity 0.81)
• Austerity is state intervention transferring resources from the many to the few (similarity 0.81)
• Europe’s Social Democrats and Christian Democrats embraced austerity as crisis policy (similarity 0.81)
• Austerity is an effective class-structure instrument, not an economic error (similarity 0.81)
• Austerity has twin histories of intellectual pedigree and empirical record (similarity 0.81)
• Europe’s center-left parties enacted the first austerity programs and allied with the center-right (similarity 0.80)
• Austerity persists as an ideology that resists empirical refutation (similarity 0.80)
• Austerity unified Fascism’s laissez-faire and corporatist economic periods. (similarity 0.80)
• Austerity emerged only once states became large enough budgetary entities to cut (similarity 0.80)
• Austerity is not a coherent doctrine but derivative of scattered state-role beliefs (similarity 0.80)
• Austerity lacks an actual theory and is only a default sensibility in liberal economics (similarity 0.80)
• Austerity debates only emerge once states grow large enough to cut. (similarity 0.80)