At his first cabinet meeting as president in 1981, Reagan distributed copies of Mandate for Leadership, whose 3,000 pages came out of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, DC. This became the ideology of neoliberalism, which advocated a smaller state, industry deregulation, tax cuts, strengthened defence, and roll-back of social engineering. A year later, 60 per cent of the Mandate’s proposals had been adopted by the Reagan administration,
Is Milton Friedman related to The Heritage Foundation?
It’s an interesting and informative article. You could read it.
I did. And some other research. The answer: no.
God, he sucks.
Brilliant piece, though.
@theacharnian
Living in the world Milton Friedman made…
He proposed that capitalism must be unfettered - forgetting that the whole purpose of democracy is to restrain the powerful on behalf of the public goodSome people call it soda, some call it pop and some call it soda pop… and also “a coke” so it is what it is and nothing gonna change till we smash
neoliberalism == liberalism == fascism == empire == capitalist
Stupid take. Yes they are all worse than socialism, but they does not mean they are equivalent. To make out that Rawls and Mill are equivalent to Hitler and Mussolini is just historically illiterate, and furthermore not understanding the differences between them leaves you unable to counter each the most effective way. You can educate a liberal to socialism but you have to punch a nazi in the face.
