Leftist pragmatic compromise is structurally outmatched by coordinated neoliberal strategy.

Evidence

The left, clinging to an obsolescent vision of pragmatism and committed to rational compromise, has seen rings run around its meager attempts to come up with remedies for the crisis. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 915

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s knowledge of Durkheim-style thought-community analysis and to critiques of liberal centrism in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. — connects to: Left factions failed to unite because their strategies were mutually contradictory — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 132; Neoliberals out-thought the left on how knowledge is organized politically. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 137; Neoliberalism’s internal plurality is strategic strength, not weakness — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1014

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s internal plurality is strategic strength, not weakness #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1014
• Left factions failed to unite because their strategies were mutually contradictory #corroborates (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 132
• Neoliberals out-thought the left on how knowledge is organized politically. #corroborates (0.82) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 137