Neoliberalism intensifies rather than breaks with capitalist state form

Evidence

Far from dismantling the state, or drowning it, then, neoliberalism would remake it. The state would become more robust in its controlling than enabling or caretaking conditions, more intrusive, more repressive. Neoliberalism, as Jean Comaroff has succinctly stated it, is not so much a break with capitalist state formation as “an intensification of some of its core features.” — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1748

Categorization

• XREF: Comaroff’s intensification-not-break thesis bears on whether threatened-privilege dynamics are continuous extensions of prior ordering rather than a novel category. — connects to: Neoliberalism seeks to strengthen rather than shrink the state — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2128; 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; Neoliberalism seeks to transform and take over the state, not shrink it — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 117 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism seeks to transform and take over the state, not shrink it #corroborates (0.93) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 117
• Neoliberalism seeks to strengthen rather than shrink the state #corroborates (0.92) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2128
• Neoliberalism activates the state for the economy rather than withdrawing it. #corroborates (0.90) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 106
• Neoliberalism centered on a strong state, not the classical night-watchman state #corroborates (0.88) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2145
• Neoliberalism’s purported state-skepticism actually mandates a strong state #corroborates (0.87) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 238
• Neoliberalism strengthens repressive state apparatuses rather than shrinking government #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1748
• The neoliberal market state may differ fundamentally from the earlier punitive conjuncture #complicates (0.78)
• Neoliberal crisis response expanded rather than shrank state power #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 288