• Maiq@lemy.lol
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    3 days ago

    Neoliberalism is just a fascist gateway drug. Fascism Lite, all the corporate rule half the stigma. This is just the eventuality of the last forty years.

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        Words have definitions. There are these things called dictionaries that people can find these definitions in. In super short context its a far right ideology brought to mainstream politics by notable figures like Pinochet, Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher. Later embraced by Bill Clinton during the neoliberal takeover of the democratic party at the time when they turned their backs on the unions and people in favor of corporations and bankers. Neoliberalism differs from classical and social liberalism in that it is about freeing capital and not people. The article below explains all this in greater detail than I’m going to get into.

        It is important to remember that just because a word shares the root liber latin for free these ideoligies differ greatly in their application and meaning and history.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

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          There are these things called dictionaries that people can find these definitions in.

          Don’t be patronising.

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            Right wingers love to redefine words to suit their feelings. Non good faith actors use tactics like this. Words have definitions. Doesn’t matter your feelings that you ascribe to them. Their definitions are not malleable. If someone starts their conversation with an already misleading premise they don’t deserve anything but the harshest truth. If your going to waste my time asking for me to define what a whole well defined political ideology “means to me” I’m going to oblige, you might not like my answer.

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        I’m not Maiq, but neoliberalism is mainly a conservative economics rebrand attempt similar to “classical liberalism”, which was first used before the second world war, which also lead to at least Austria’s economy crashing and then being taken over by Hitler.

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        In short. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. And most politicians since then in the west. It has been a bipartisan policy of economics in the US since Reagan (and arguably started by Carter).

        In long form. This video.

        https://youtu.be/oWOH9iJhZXo