Neoliberalism is a class-power restoration, not an innovation
Evidence
The persistent association of neoliberalism with the term ‘Restoration’, favored by both Badiou and David Harvey, is an important corrective to the association of capital with novelty. For Harvey and Badiou, neoliberal politics are not about the new, but a return of class power and privilege. … Harvey argues that neoliberalization is best conceived of as a ‘political project to re-establish the conditions for capital accumulation and to restore the power of economic elites’. Harvey demonstrates that, in an era popularly described as ‘post-political’, class war has continued to be fought, but only by one side: the wealthy. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 63
Categorization
- XREF: Mirrors themes in the reader’s prior chapter notes on class war and inequality. — connects to: Neoliberalism restored elite class power rather than innovating. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 63; Neoliberalism aimed at class decomposition, not market freedom; Neoliberalism is about class power, not market freedom. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1657 (+2 more)
Related
- Neoliberalism restored elite class power rather than innovating. (similarity 0.97)
- Neoliberalism was both a class-power project and a coherent ideology. (similarity 0.84)
- Neoliberalism is about class power, not market freedom. (similarity 0.83)
- Neoliberalism aimed at class decomposition, not market freedom (similarity 0.82)
- Neoliberalism succeeded by seducing workers out of class identification. (similarity 0.81)
- Early neoliberals explicitly distanced themselves from classical laissez-faire doctrine (similarity 0.80)
- Neoliberalism broke sharply with prewar classical liberalism rather than continuing it (similarity 0.80)
- Neoliberalism is a novel doctrine in flux, not a return to laissez-faire (similarity 0.80)
- Neoliberalism is a contested but usable analytical category rather than a fixed ideology (similarity 0.80)
- Neoliberalism’s intellectual history challenges the orthodox Marxist reading of it as a capitalist fix. (similarity 0.80)
- Neoliberalism seeks to transform and take over the state, not shrink it (similarity 0.79)
- Neoliberalism seeks to capture and reconstruct the strong state, not shrink it (similarity 0.79)
- Neoliberal belief was partly driven by the libidinal pleasure of crushing the working class (similarity 0.79)
- Neoliberalism is only one phase of capitalism, not the first or worst. (similarity 0.79)
- Neoliberalism persists as undead zombie beyond its discrediting (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism is about class power, not market freedom.
#corroborates(0.98) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1657 - Neoliberalism aimed at class decomposition, not market freedom
#corroborates(0.95) - Neoliberalism is a novel doctrine in flux, not a return to laissez-faire
#contradicts(0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 439 - Neoliberalism replaces class analysis with a cynical catechism of limitless self-transformation
#qualifies(0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 332