Neoliberals have repeatedly appropriated left-wing ideas and twisted them to their own purposes.
Evidence
To a historian, it is striking the extent to which the neoliberals have repeatedly taken ideas from the left over the last half of the twentieth century and twisted them to their own purposes. Perusing the papers from the New York conference, however, one finds instead mostly predictable platitudes and tired retreads about the wicked government causing the crisis. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 21
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s advanced critique of how the NTC absorbs and neutralizes ‘statist’ concepts — a mechanism relevant to the 2008 survival story. — connects to: Neoliberals appropriated the marketplace-of-ideas metaphor from their political enemies — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 102; Neoliberals weaponized the household critique to discredit all politics — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 158; Neoliberal core ideas mutate to fuse with both left and right worldviews. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 31 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberals appropriated the marketplace-of-ideas metaphor from their political enemies
#exemplifies(0.95) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 102 - Neoliberals weaponized the household critique to discredit all politics
#exemplifies(0.90) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 158 - Neoliberalism weaponizes its own rebellious aesthetic to absorb anti-system dissent.
#exemplifies(0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 257 - Neoliberal core ideas mutate to fuse with both left and right worldviews.
#expands(0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 31 - Neoliberalism rebranded itself through property-titling antipoverty programs.
#expands(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 164 - Neoliberals out-thought the left on how knowledge is organized politically.
#expands(0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 137