I don't really understand the article. "Neoliberalism" is often characterized as essentially libertarianism, but libertarians aren't conservatives, and by no means was Reagan a libertarian. — Terrapin Station
[Neoliberal economics] treats competition as humanity’s defining characteristic, sees citizens as consumers and “the market” as society’s organising principle. The market, it claims, sorts us into a natural hierarchy of winners and losers. Any attempt by politics to intervene disrupts the discovery of this natural order.
Why is the article confusing? — csalisbury
Wasn't that what my first post was about? :-\ :-/ — Terrapin Station
The article explains how Reagan made use of neoliberal thought. But, you say, neoliberalism is often characterized as essentially libertarian. Reagan wasn't a libertarian. He was conservative. Conservatives aren't libertarian. So if neoliberals are often characterized as essentially libertarian, and reagan is a conservative, and so not libertarian, how could he be neoliberal?
hmmmm :chin:
If only there were a weak link or two here, the removal of which would make everything fall into place! — csalisbury
The article explains how Reagan made use of neoliberal thought. But, you say, neoliberalism is often characterized as essentially libertarian. Reagan wasn't a libertarian. He was conservative. Conservatives aren't libertarian. So if neoliberals are often characterized as essentially libertarian, and reagan is a conservative, and so not libertarian, how could he be neoliberal?
hmmmm :chin:
If only there were a weak link or two here, the removal of which would make everything fall into place! — csalisbury
Déat replaced class struggle with class collaboration and national solidarity, advocated corporatism as a model of social organisation, replaced the notion of socialism with anti-capitalism and supported a technocratic state which would plan the economy and in which parliamentarism would be replaced by political technocracy.[4]
We are not seeing the elephant in the room and that is migration and racism. All these brown people and foreigners 'invading' Britain and the US is what has created this popular movement. Racists want to keep Britain and the US ethnically white and the lower class is seeing their jobs being taken over by foreigners. — ovdtogt
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white man’s used in the hands of them all like a tool
He’s taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
’Bout the shape that he’s in
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game. — Bob Dylan
Do you even read what you link to? To describe Tony Blair as a neosocialist because he once used the word "socialism" in a speech and then link to an article that clearly shows he definitely wasn't that is at best an extreme example of intellectual laziness. If you know nothing about something, please stay mum until you do. You at least know enough about Trump to present some superficially plausible lies, which to my mind is more laudable than this kind of malarkey.
Major Third Way social democratic proponent Tony Blair claimed that the socialism he advocated was different from traditional conceptions of socialism and said: "My kind of socialism is a set of values based around notions of social justice. [...] Socialism as a rigid form of economic determinism has ended, and rightly".[6] Blair referred to it as a "social-ism" involving politics that recognised individuals as socially interdependent and advocated social justice, social cohesion, equal worth of each citizen and equal opportunity.[7] Third Way social democratic theorist Anthony Giddens has said that the Third Way rejects the traditional conception of socialism and instead accepts the conception of socialism as conceived of by Anthony Crosland as an ethical doctrine that views social democratic governments as having achieved a viable ethical socialism by removing the unjust elements of capitalism by providing social welfare and other policies and that contemporary socialism has outgrown the Marxist claim for the need of the abolition of capitalism.[8] In 2009, Blair publicly declared support for a "new capitalism".[9]
It’s a far more accurate term than “neoliberalism”, which is a boogie-man. — NOS4A2
I think neosocialism is a far more accurate term to describe the failed and unpopular policies of the third-way — NOS4A2
So please make an argument or stay mum. — NOS4A2
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