Neoliberal core ideas mutate to fuse with both left and right worldviews.

Evidence

Rather than posing a globalist neoliberalism against a neonationalist and social conservative populism, we must remain mindful of the elasticity of neoliberal norms and principles. Principles of competition, private property, and consumer sovereignty can be tied to human rights, multicultural tolerance, and recognition of minorities as well as exclusionary bonds based in culture and race. Neither left nor right had much affinity to neoliberal-style individualism historically. But the advance of neoliberal worldviews expanded certain ideas at the expense of competing notions of individualism and solidarity. Social democracy has become less concerned with redistribution under the impact of advancing neoliberal understandings of social life, while conservatism has become less concerned with tradition under the impact of advancing neoliberal understandings of competitiveness. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior readings on how ideological movements absorb and spread ideas; directly relevant to E. Austerity reading purpose. — connects to: Neoliberals have repeatedly appropriated left-wing ideas and twisted them to their own purposes. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 21; Neoliberal structural change ironically fueled statist planning and right-wing populism despite anti-statist rhetoric. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 303; Neoliberal development thought predated and coexisted with left-wing theories rather than countering them — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1266 (+6 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘elasticity of neoliberal norms’ is a defining feature explaining its longevity.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism is a self-consciously evolving thought collective, not a fixed catechism #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 141
• Neoliberal economism paradoxically enables neoconservative moral politics. #exemplifies (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 17
• Both left and right fusions with neoliberalism produce exclusive rather than inclusive solidarity. #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 32
• Neoliberal development thought predated and coexisted with left-wing theories rather than countering them #qualifies (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1266
• Neoliberalism operates from a unified playbook despite surface variation #contradicts (0.72) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 917