Neoliberals wrote their own inverted history of the twentieth century

Evidence

A neoliberal perspective on the history of the twentieth ­century amounts to an alternative account of the modern era. In a neoliberal history of the ­century, decolonization began in 1919; fascism looked promising to some ­until it raised tariff walls; the Cold War was secondary to the war against the Global New Deal; the end of apartheid was seen by some as a tragedy; and countries ­were secondary entities subordinate to the totality of the globe. It is a history where the so-­called golden age of postwar capitalism was actually a dark age, governed by Keynesian delusions and misguided fantasies of global economic equality. It is about the development of a planet linked by money, information, and goods where the signature achievement of the ­century was not an international community, a global civil society, or the deepening of democracy, but an ever-­integrating object called the world economy and the institutions designated to encase it. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 72

Categorization

• SEED: The counter-history reversal — decolonization starting 1919, golden age as dark age — is a strong hook for a review or essay.
• XREF: connects to: Historical icons of neoliberal selfhood are largely manufactured retrofits — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 300; Neoliberal discourse inverted liberalism’s visionary rhetoric into accommodation to the status quo — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1547; Neoliberalism’s success depended on 1980s narrative and libidinal engineering technologies — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1878

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal discourse inverted liberalism’s visionary rhetoric into accommodation to the status quo #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1547
• Historical icons of neoliberal selfhood are largely manufactured retrofits #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 300