Rights-based anti-neoliberal struggle can inadvertently entrench the market

Evidence

Without coming to terms with that influence, social movements and struggles that wield the language of human rights to contest neoliberalism may instead find that they strengthen its hold. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 66

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely paradigm-shifting causal claim: the very vocabulary of resistance may be co-opted infrastructure that reinforces the target. Resists summary and would anchor sustained reflection.
• XREF: connects to: The protective countermovement to markets can itself be exclusionary — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 401; Neoliberal capital profits by commodifying resistance itself — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 531; Left climate advocacy can be co-opted into serving the market agenda it opposes. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 926 (+8 more)