Neoliberal limited government rhetoric coexists with a strong police and military state.
Evidence
It is important to note that Feulner’s strong rhetoric of limited government refers to the welfare state but not to the police or the military. The neoliberal combination of limited government and strong state in defense of capitalism remains typically obscured behind the rhetoric of limited government, which is not identical to a weak state. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 166
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the crucial distinction between ‘limited government’ (welfare state cuts) and ‘weak state’ (no police/military), which is a key conceptual precision in critiquing neoliberalism.
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s reading purpose on Austerity/Neoliberalism and to general left critique of the ‘strong state in defense of capitalism’ - echoes Foucault’s biopolitics/neoliberal state analyses. — connects to: Neoliberalism seeks a strong state that thwarts democracy, not a weak one — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 155; Neoliberal rhetoric evokes free markets while quietly relying on a strong state — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 26; Neoliberalism centered on a strong state, not the classical night-watchman state — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2145 (+8 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 166
Broader Connections
- Neoliberal rhetoric evokes free markets while quietly relying on a strong state
#corroborates(0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 26 - Neoliberalism strengthens repressive state apparatuses rather than shrinking government
#corroborates(0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1748 - Neoliberalism seeks to strengthen rather than shrink the state
#corroborates(0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2128 - Neoliberalism’s purported state-skepticism actually mandates a strong state
#corroborates(0.92) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 238 - Neoliberalism centered on a strong state, not the classical night-watchman state
#corroborates(0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2145 - Neoliberal spontaneous-order rhetoric masks theorists’ Schmittian power to define state sovereignty
#corroborates(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2196 - Neoliberal freedom can be a vehicle for governance and domination
#expands(0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 153 - Neoliberal crisis response expanded rather than shrank state power
#exemplifies(0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 288 - Law-and-order rhetoric justified police brutality and fed rebellion cycles.
#exemplifies(0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1013