Neoliberals redefine freedom as something to be limited and detached from democracy

Evidence

Similar sentiments were expressed at other comparable conclaves. For instance, John MacCallum Scott proposed to the 1956 meetings of the Liberal International, “Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed”; the British economist Arthur Shenfield pronounced in a speech to the 1954 MPS conference, “It does no service either to liberalism or to democracy to assume that democracy is necessarily liberal or liberalism is necessarily democratic.” Thenceforth, for neoliberals, “freedom” would have to change its connotations. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 119

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how ‘freedom’ was deliberately re-engineered as a concept by the neoliberal thought collective, detached from its democratic overtones.
• XREF: Connects to the earlier paragraph 118 about ‘ten per cent slavery versus fifty per cent slavery’ and the general theme of the state’s circumscribed role. Also resonates with the reading purpose on how the ‘thought collective’ redefines core vocabulary to survive. — connects to: Traditional liberal freedoms are obsolete as the definition of a free society — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 111; Neoliberals restrict freedom to negative freedom to shield market epistemology from scrutiny — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 169; Neoliberal freedom can be a vehicle for governance and domination — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 153 (+12 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 119

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal freedom is recoded as negative liberty to protect market supremacy #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2130
• Neoliberal ‘freedom’ is internally redefined to mean market autonomy, not political liberty #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 166
• Neoliberals restrict freedom to negative freedom to shield market epistemology from scrutiny #corroborates (0.92) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 169
• Neoliberal freedom can be a vehicle for governance and domination #expands (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 153
• Neoliberalism’s social theory is fundamentally epistemological, recoding freedom as instrumental to independent orders #corroborates (0.85)
• Neoliberalism redefined liberty as economic rather than political. #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 380
• Neoliberalism’s weakening of democratic values enables neoconservative moralism and authoritarianism #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 169
• Neoliberal rationality reduces the very desire for democracy #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 398