Neoliberal hegemony required state control, so abandoning state theory is a mistake

Evidence

Neoliberals don’t really have to run the state as such themselves. They get their subordinates to do it. The state is clearly an important locus of power. We get some theories which already write off the state and I think that is a mistake. It’s quite clear that neoliberalism could not have achieved the hegemony it has without also being able to control states. So I think the state remains an important locus of power. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2182

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with Hall’s conjunctural analysis of authoritarian statism in Essential Essays selections previously read. — connects to: Neoliberalism centrally requires a strong state, not state retreat — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 17; Neoliberalism subordinates the state to capital rather than freeing markets — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1720; Neoliberalism intensifies rather than breaks with capitalist state form — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1748 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism centered on a strong state, not the classical night-watchman state #corroborates (0.96) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2145
• Neoliberalism centrally requires a strong state, not state retreat #corroborates (0.95) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 17
• German ordoliberalism favors state framework provision over neoliberal state withdrawal. #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 164
• Neoliberalism intensifies rather than breaks with capitalist state form #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1748
• Neoliberalism subordinates the state to capital rather than freeing markets #qualifies (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1720
• Misunderstanding the state as dictatorship plus hegemony causes strategic errors #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 906