Council house sales succeeded by harnessing Sixties desires for freedom

Evidence

The genius at the centre of Thatcherism could be found in the selling-off of council houses, because alongside the straightforward inducement of owning your own home was the narrative about time and history, whereby Thatcher and people like her were out to make your life more free. They were opposed to those stuck-in-the-mud, centralising bureaucrats, who want to control your life for you. That involved a very successful harnessing of the desires that had grown up, particularly since the Sixties. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1650

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Real longing for freedom is functionalized and sold back to people — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 260; Neoliberalism won by absorbing sixties desires the left failed to address — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1716

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism won by absorbing sixties desires the left failed to address #corroborates (0.88) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1716
• Real longing for freedom is functionalized and sold back to people #expands (0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 260