The neoliberal state secures private interests against projected racialized outsiders

Evidence

Since then, and as reaction, the state has been molded into a counterstructure. This counter-movement has sought to delimit the impacts of globalizing deracination, both to maintain a competitive edge within and between states and to secure itself from perceived threats, almost invariably if more or less silently racially perceived and shaped, from without. Accordingly the state became increasingly troubled with securing privatized interests from the projected contamination and threat of those deemed for various reasons not to belong. Of those considered to have little or no standing, the welfare of whom is calculated to cost too much, economically or politically. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1741

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes and extends the ‘racial states’ thesis from the reader’s prior engagement with Goldberg’s framework on the racially coded state. — connects to: Neoliberals have readily allied with exclusionary and racist right-wing movements. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 24
• DEEPTHINKING: A dense inversion: the post-welfare state frames outsiders as costly contamination, making racial exclusion structural to the state’s protective function.