Left climate advocacy can be co-opted into serving the market agenda it opposes.

Evidence

As a bonus from the neoliberal vantage point, perhaps some segments of the left, operating under the quaint impression they can effectively oppose one or more of these options they find anathema by advocating another—say, aiming to defeat science denialism or geoengineering by taking up advocacy of carbon trading—end up being recruited as unwitting foot soldiers for the neoliberal long march. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 926

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: carbon-trading advocacy as inadvertent Trojan horse; the left’s chosen ‘lesser evil’ may be the market’s preferred vehicle.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberals co-opt left critiques to discredit even market-based ethical consumption. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 411; Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 468; The left’s reliance on orthodox economics enabled its co-optation by neoliberalism — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 901 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals co-opt left critiques to discredit even market-based ethical consumption. #exemplifies (0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 411
• Capitalism co-opts opposition and must be escaped rather than confronted #expands (0.85) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 468
• Rights-based anti-neoliberal struggle can inadvertently entrench the market #exemplifies (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 66
• The left’s reliance on orthodox economics enabled its co-optation by neoliberalism #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 901