Neoliberalism strips the state to military-police functions rather than abolishing it
Evidence
But, contrary to neoliberal fantasy, there is no withering away of the State, only a stripping back of the State to its core military and police functions. In this world, as in ours, ultraauthoritarianism and Capital are by no means incompatible: internment camps and franchise coffee bars co-exist. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 558
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Fisher’s recurrent capitalist-realism argument and to the idea that the state’s welfare functions retreat while its coercive core strengthens. — connects to: Neoliberalism replaces the welfare state with a traffic-cop state; Neoliberal limited government rhetoric coexists with a strong police and military state. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 166; Neoliberalism strengthens repressive state apparatuses rather than shrinking government — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1748 (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism strengthens repressive state apparatuses rather than shrinking government
#corroborates(0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1748 - Neoliberalism expands state penal power while professing to shrink government
#corroborates(0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 179 - Neoliberal limited government rhetoric coexists with a strong police and military state.
#corroborates(0.88) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 166 - Neoliberalism seeks to transform and take over the state, not shrink it
#expands(0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 117 - Neoliberal states redefined their mandate from welfare to securitization and control
#expands(0.85) - Neoliberalism centered on a strong state, not the classical night-watchman state
#corroborates(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2145 - Neoliberalism activates the state for the economy rather than withdrawing it.
#corroborates(0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 106 - Neoliberalism expanded bureaucracy rather than eliminating it
#expands(0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1581 - Neoliberalism seeks to strengthen rather than shrink the state
#expands(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2128 - Neoliberalism replaces the welfare state with a traffic-cop state
#corroborates(0.78) - Neoliberalism resorts to violent enforcement when local socialities reject its order
#exemplifies(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1887 - Neoliberalism intensifies rather than breaks with capitalist state form
#corroborates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1748 - Neoliberalism treats citizenship as customerhood and rejects the night-watchman state
#complicates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2129 - Neoliberalism claims to liberate while actually eroding political sovereignty
#complicates(0.72) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 211 - German ordoliberalism favors state framework provision over neoliberal state withdrawal.
#qualifies(0.72) — Mark Blyth, Austerity, 164