Neoliberalism is about class power, not market freedom.
Evidence
So why is it that teachers are required to perform more bureaucratic tasks than they ever were in the heyday of social democracy? Simply because neoliberalism has got nothing to do with the freeing of markets, and everything to do with class power. That is reflected in the introduction of certain methods and strategies, ways of assessing teachers and schools, justified because they allegedly increase efficiency. Well, anyone who has engaged in this kind of, to coin another phrase, market Stalinism knows that nowadays what matters is what appears on the forms, irrespective of whether it actually corresponds to reality. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1657
Simply because neoliberalism has got nothing to do with the freeing of markets, and everything to do with class power. That is reflected in the introduction of certain methods and strategies, ways of assessing teachers and schools, justified because they allegedly increase efficiency. Well, anyone who has engaged in this kind of, to coin another phrase, market Stalinism knows that nowadays what matters is what appears on the forms, irrespective of whether it actually corresponds to reality. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1657
Categorization
- DEFINE: Poignant coinage ‘market Stalinism’ — formal compliance superseding actual correspondence to reality.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1657
- XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism aimed at class decomposition, not market freedom; The neoliberal state governs for the market, not because of it. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 111; Neoliberal ‘economic rights’ protect capital’s market freedom, not welfare entitlements. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 430 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism aimed at class decomposition, not market freedom
#corroborates(0.85) - Neoliberal ‘economic rights’ protect capital’s market freedom, not welfare entitlements.
#contradicts(0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 430 - The neoliberal state governs for the market, not because of it.
#expands(0.70) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 111