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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