Neoliberalism was finished as a project by 2015 even as it lurched on
Evidence
Neoliberalism is finished as a project, even if it lurches on, thrashing around like a decorticated terminator. We’re finally groping our way, blinking, out of capitalist realism. The psychic blockade that prevented us from thinking and acting is lifting. This has only registered in this campaign in some minor way with the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens (the multiparty nature of British politics now is of course another way in which we are in new times by comparison with 74 and 92). — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1840
Categorization
- XREF: Recalibrates the pervasive earlier claim that capitalist realism restricts the politically possible — here written at the threshold of its supposed lifting, which hindsight (Brexit, Johnson, Truss) complicates. — connects to: Neoliberalism was a flexible project, not a fixed doctrine with essential content — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 115; Neoliberalism was an ideological veneer only loosely resembling actual capitalism — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 220; Declarations that neoliberalism is dead have recurred for decades (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Declarations that neoliberalism is dead have recurred for decades
#expands(0.85) - Neoliberalism’s defeat of its own aims produced states yanked by capital and popular zeal
#corroborates(0.80) — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, 139 - Neoliberalism was a flexible project, not a fixed doctrine with essential content
#qualifies(0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 115 - Neoliberalism was an ideological veneer only loosely resembling actual capitalism
#complicates(0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 220