Neoliberalism cannot be removed by voting alone

Evidence

The electoral impasse is not down to some semiotic failure (if only we had the right PR initiative to engage the kids!), but reflects the actual composition of forces in society. … As Keir Milburn says in an important piece10, and, as the situation in Greece is showing, you can’t vote out neoliberalism. But as Keir also argues, “[e]ven at their point of failure Plan B electoral politics can be useful if they can clarify the anti-democratic effects of neoliberalism that work against all forms of collective action.” — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1783

Categorization

• XREF: Runs parallel to Milgrom et al. on institutions-supplying popular force and the impossibility of reputation alone, and to the mass-mobilization legitimacy material. — connects to: Voting alone does not constitute the full work of democracy — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 616
• DEEPTHINKING: ‘You can’t vote out neoliberalism’ yet electoral politics that clarifies anti-democratic effects is a rare genuinely dialectical formulation.

Broader Connections

• Voting alone does not constitute the full work of democracy #expands (0.78) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 616