Marxism’s true bourgeois homologues are neoliberals, not fascists.

Evidence

This would seem to confirm the traditional complaint about Marxism that it lacks any autonomous political reflection as such, something which, however, tends to strike one as a strength rather than a weakness. Marxism is indeed not a political philosophy of the weltanschauung variety, and in no way “on all fours” with conservation, liberalism, radicalism, populism, or whatever. … This means that “socialism” is not exactly a political idea, or, if you like, that it presupposes the end of a certain political thinking. It also means that we do have our homologues among the bourgeois thinkers, but they are not the fascists (who have very little in the way of thought in that sense, and have in any case become historically extinct), but rather the neoliberals and the market people: for them also, political philosophy is worthless (at least once you get rid of the arguments of the Marxist, collectivist enemy), and “politics” now means simply the care and feeding of the economic apparatus (in this case the market rather than the collectively owned and organized means of production). Indeed, I will argue the proposition that we have much in common with the neoliberals, in fact virtually everything — save the essentials! — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 581

Categorization

• XREF: Bears on the reader’s cognitive map of their own position in the world system — aligning Marxism structurally with market thinking is a useful provocation for locating oneself. — connects to: Capitalist realism is a pathology of the left, not merely a right-wing imposition. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1643
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this homology survive inspection of current market fundamentalism, where politics as ‘care and feeding’ of the apparatus is overt?
• CANDY: ‘We have much in common with the neoliberals, in fact virtually everything — save the essentials!’ is a barbed, quotable line.