Victims of failed neoliberal policy are forced to pay its costs
Evidence
In what must surely be the most astonishing bait and switch in British parliamentary history, the victims of neoliberal policy — public services and the poor — are now being asked (or rather forced) to pay for the manifest and total failure of that policy. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1466
Categorization
- XREF: Evokes the generalised ‘privatise gains, socialise losses’ logic; also screens as realism about who pays for restructuring that recurs in Fisher’s writing. — connects to: Most incapacity benefit claimants are casualties of capitalist restructuring — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1407; Neoliberalism induces risk-bearing then blames the victims when risk fails — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 351; Neoliberalism’s crisis strategy redirected blame from banks onto state debt — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 475 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism induces risk-bearing then blames the victims when risk fails
#expands(0.92) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 351 - Neoliberal states shift the cost of reproducing human capital onto individuals
#expands(0.88) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 72 - Neoliberal culture recasts welfare-state dependence as a moral failure to embrace risk
#expands(0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 338 - Neoliberal deregulation replaced social protection with credit and indebtedness
#expands(0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 746 - Neoliberals opposed no-fault divorce to force families to absorb social costs
#exemplifies(0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 241 - Debt securitization served as inadequate compensation for welfare-state dismantling
#expands(0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 963 - Neoliberals favored contractual freedom for intimate life only if costs are privately internalized
#expands(0.78) - Neoliberalism’s crisis strategy redirected blame from banks onto state debt
#expands(0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 475 - Austerity technocrats framed welfare expenditure as a cause of national breakdown.
#expands(0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 927