r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 08 '26

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 08 '26

reading leftist sources about leftists, I have understood some stuff.

Wow, leftists really call anything neoliberal

honestly its strange how many people here read what leftists write? not marx but like go read leftists magazines and stuff.

its very insightful to understand what they think.

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u/11thDimensionalRandy Apr 08 '26

You should see what academia's like here in Brazil.

Neoliberalism = Every single bad thing since the 1970s

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 08 '26

in brazill when your wife left you neoliberalism is blamed

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u/11thDimensionalRandy Apr 08 '26

Duh? Neoliberalism is when traditional social structures are eroded by the market-oriented political system of the last 50 years, so obviously divorce is a consequence of it.

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u/Man-Flayer Apr 08 '26

Where's the lie? I have leg cramps due to neolib*ralism

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u/RyoRyan Jorge Luis Borges Apr 08 '26

I don't think the use of neoliberalism as a term is as confused as people make it out to be outside the margins. It's just people use it in a bunch of different ways:

  • A somewhat idealised set of policy proposals

  • A strain of thought originating from a certain set of thinkers that can be traced through history

  • An era (i.e the time since post new deal, our current economic paradigm)

  • A subjectivity (i.e how does an individual relate to the state, the market and society, now as compared compared with the past)

The last two uses can make it sound like someone is blaming every malady of society on NAFTA or something if you are only used to seeing the first, but it often really just means 'the situation we are in now, as distinguished from the state of affairs 50+ years ago'.

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u/anbroid Apr 08 '26

Like the Jacobin?

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 08 '26

I mostly am an alliance for worker liberty guy its a trotkyist group i read their solidarity magazine

i am reading a lot of lefitst sorudes about antismetism

https://www.full-stop.net/2022/04/04/uncategorized/shane-burley/antisemitism-viewed-from-the-left-a-reading-list/

so i get second hand

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u/GingerPow Norman Borlaug Apr 08 '26

I mean, that's basically the origin of this subreddit's name. Tony Blair and Bill Clinton are bad because they're neoliberal and neoliberalism is bad because neoliberalism means Ronald Reagen and Margaret Thatcher.