Doomscroll: Quinn Slobodian
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
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Some spoke critically of neoliberalism, the sense that the idea of the free market has somehow crowded out all others. This was true enough, but the very use of the word was usually a kowtow before an unchangeable hegemony.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
What is neoliberalism anyway? One common understanding of the term describes neoliberalism as an ideology of “free markets” and “deregulation.” But this definition mistakes advertising for reality. A better understanding, and the one Baradaran implicitly invokes, sees neoliberalism as re-regulating, not deregulating. Rather than getting the state o... See more
Amy Kapczynski • Markets and the Law
It does often seem that, whenever there is a choice between one option that makes capitalism seem the only possible economic system, and another that would actually make capitalism a more viable economic system, neoliberalism means always choosing the former. The combined result is a relentless campaign against the human imagination. Or, to be more
... See moreDavid Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
In most of the world, the last thirty years has come to be known as the age of neoliberalism—one dominated by a revival of the long-since-abandoned nineteenth- century creed that held that free markets and human freedom in general were ultimately the same thing.