Neoliberalism targeted Sixties democratic socialism and communism, not the USSR

Evidence

This enemy was not the necrotic Stalinist monolith of the USSR; still less was it the cult of Parisian Maoism, which was only ever the most minor of distractions. No: neoliberalism was designed to eliminate the various strains of democratic socialism and libertarian communism that bubbled up in so many places during in the Sixties and Seventies. Wherever this possibility emerged, capital crushed it, most ruthlessly and most spectacularly in Chile. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2022

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: is the claim that the USSR/Maoism ‘distractions’ versus the real target being the spread of democratic-socialist experiments supported elsewhere in scholarship on the neoliberal counter-revolution?
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism existed to crush Sixties democratic socialism and is now failing — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2022; Neoliberalism won by absorbing sixties desires the left failed to address — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1716; Neoliberalism succeeded by capturing sixties anti-authoritarian energies the left failed to harness — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2101 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism existed to crush Sixties democratic socialism and is now failing #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2022
• Neoliberal ideas penetrated even nominally hostile parties and communist states #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 80
• Neoliberalism won by absorbing sixties desires the left failed to address #qualifies (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1716
• Neoliberalism succeeded by capturing sixties anti-authoritarian energies the left failed to harness #qualifies (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2101
• Neoliberalism emerged across the mid-twentieth century, not as a 1980s rebellion #qualifies (0.70) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 86