What is today’s leftism if not the application of the principles of laissez-faire and markets in everything to our identities, bodies, sex lives, relationships, and emotional lives?
A rich man can buy himself the title of “the woman of the year” because he can afford to purchase many surgeries and cosmetic procedures.
An academic who claims to be very anti-neoliberal thinks that the most important goal is to “create a proliferation of genders.” Everybody needs a boutique gender identity to be able to live their own truth. Because even truth is privatized.
I can give a trillion more examples but is it necessary? UBI, defund the police, mass migration – it’s all laissez-faire and markets in everything.
The moment you abandon the strictly economic definition of neoliberalism and realize that it has spread to every area of life, it becomes self-evident that the most cherished principles of the Left are neoliberal. I mean, choice feminism, anybody? Can it possibly be any more in your face?
That neoliberalism has conquered all areas of life, by the way, is not my invention. It’s been a commonplace in the Humanities for 30 years.
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Missed this post earlier. Your analysis of the Neoliberal mind is excellent: it helps the obnubilated minds of leftists – sincere (a few) or not (the many) – to connect the dots and get the picture of the beast that they can’t otherwise see or that they so stubbornly refuse to see.
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If anybody is going to like my new book,it’s you, my friend. 🙂
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I’m looking forward to it.
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People have been arguing about free will vs determinism since the ancient Greeks. The apartheid government believed in Calvinist predestination. Since the social order had already been determined due to God’s plan, there was nothing to be done other than make the best of it.
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