The Lady's Not For Turning

[unrepentant progress]

Contrary to popular (or at least leftist) myth, neoliberals are not untrammeled individualists. In many ways, they’re not that different from traditional conservatives: that is, they see individuals embedded in social institutions like the church or the family or schools—all institutions, it should be said, that are hierarchical and undemocratic. ... What often gets lost in these debates is what I think is the real, or at least a main, thrust of neoliberalism, according to some of its most interesting and important theoreticians (and its actual practice): not to liberate the individual or to deregulate the marketplace, but to shift power from government ... to the private authority of fathers and owners.

http://coreyrobin.com/2013/04/08/the-ladys-not-for-turning

[Dawson Leery]

1. k/r

[bemildred]

2. Yep, that's it.

Petit bourgeois morals, neoliberal economics, class-warfare as necessary to keep the proles in line, and an oligarchic plutocracy running the show.