Neoliberalism has no answer for subjects who use liberty against it

Evidence

96 See Kristol, “Socialism, Capitalism, Nihilism,” LAMP, Montreux meeting, 1972: “And what if the ‘self’ that is ‘realized’ under the conditions of liberal capitalism is a self that despises liberal capitalism, and uses its liberty to subvert and abolish a free society? To this question, Hayek—like Friedman—has no answer.” — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1873

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Mirowski elsewhere suggest an answer the neoliberals themselves couldn’t articulate, or is this a genuine internal aporia?
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal theory has no answer to a free society producing enemies of itself. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2188; Neoliberalism redefines coercion so that no market exchange can ever count as coercive — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 167; Neoliberal ‘freedom’ is internally redefined to mean market autonomy, not political liberty — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 166 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal theory has no answer to a free society producing enemies of itself. #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2188
• Neoliberal ‘freedom’ is internally redefined to mean market autonomy, not political liberty #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 166
• Neoliberalism redefined liberty as economic rather than political. #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 380
• Neoliberal freedom is recoded as negative liberty to protect market supremacy #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2130
• Neoliberalism redefines coercion so that no market exchange can ever count as coercive #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 167
• Neoliberals restrict freedom to negative freedom to shield market epistemology from scrutiny #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 169
• Neoliberalism denies any harmable self, dissolving all positive freedom #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 308
• Capitalism structurally requires negative liberty and rejects positive liberty #complicates (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 299