Neoliberalism restored elite class power rather than innovating.
Evidence
For Harvey and Badiou, neoliberal politics are not about the new, but a return of class power and privilege. ‘[I]n France,’ Badiou has said, ”Restoration’ refers to the period of the return of the King, in 1815, after the Revolution and Napoleon. We are in such a period. Today we see liberal capitalism and its political system, parliamentarianism, as the only natural and acceptable solutions’. 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: connects to: Neoliberalism is a class-power restoration, not an innovation — 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 — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1657 (+1 more)
Related
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- Neoliberalism was both a class-power project and a coherent ideology. (similarity 0.84)
- Neoliberalism aimed at class decomposition, not market freedom (similarity 0.83)
- Neoliberalism is about class power, not market freedom. (similarity 0.81)
- Neoliberalism succeeded by seducing workers out of class identification. (similarity 0.80)
- Neoliberalism is a novel doctrine in flux, not a return to laissez-faire (similarity 0.79)
- Early neoliberals explicitly distanced themselves from classical laissez-faire doctrine (similarity 0.79)
- Neoliberalism was an ideological veneer only loosely resembling actual capitalism (similarity 0.79)
- Neoliberalism’s intellectual history challenges the orthodox Marxist reading of it as a capitalist fix. (similarity 0.79)
- Elitism versus populism is a false dichotomy imposed by neoliberalism (similarity 0.79)
- Neoliberalism seeks to capture and reconstruct the strong state, not shrink it (similarity 0.79)
- Neoliberalism dominates by default, leaving its ideology contestable (similarity 0.79)
- Neoliberalism seeks to transform and take over the state, not shrink it (similarity 0.78)
- Neoliberalism is a contested but usable analytical category rather than a fixed ideology (similarity 0.78)
- Neoliberal education policy deliberately dismantled the art-school mixing of working-class culture and theory (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism is a class-power restoration, not an innovation
#corroborates(1.00) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 63 - Neoliberalism is about class power, not market freedom.
#corroborates(1.00) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1657 - Neoliberalism aimed at class decomposition, not market freedom
#expands(0.85) - Neoliberalism was both a class-power project and a coherent ideology.
#expands(0.85) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 478