Neoliberalism was founded by the antidemocratic overthrow of Chilean democratic socialism

Evidence

If political change doesn’t happen through events alone, there are nevertheless moments which function as thresholds, opening up a new terrain of struggle, and allowing different collective emotions to propagate. … The current struggle in Europe — currently focused on Greece, but sure to spread much wider in the near future — is an opportunity for us to reclaim democracy after its capture by neoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s. The founding moment of neoliberalism was the decidedly anti-democratic overthrow of the democratic socialist Allende government in Chile. This was a double defeat: not only was a democratically elected, non-authoritarian, technologicallyorientated administration overthrown, an extreme neoliberal government was installed in its place. In Chile, the forced forgetting of the possibility of democratic socialism required mass torture, imprisonment and repression. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1955

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal reform in Chile depended on propaganda and a coercive military regime — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1585; Neoliberals needed Chile’s dictatorship to find the means to depoliticize economies. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 301; Neoliberalism existed to crush Sixties democratic socialism and is now failing — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2022 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal reform in Chile depended on propaganda and a coercive military regime #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1585
• Military coercion, not free markets, secured the submission Chilean shock therapy required #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 342
• Neoliberals needed Chile’s dictatorship to find the means to depoliticize economies. #expands (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 301
• Neoliberalism existed to crush Sixties democratic socialism and is now failing #corroborates (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2022