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While claiming to foster small business and manufacturing, reactionary neoliberalism’s true economic project centered on bolstering finance, military production, and extractive energy, all to the principal benefit of the global 1 percent. What was supposed to render that palatable for the base it sought to assemble was an exclusionary vision of a
... See moreNancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
But being ‘at a distance from the state’ does not mean either abandoning the state or retreating into the private space of affects and diversity which Žižek rightly argues is the perfect complement to neoliberalism’s domination of the state.
Marc Fisher • Capitalist Realism

A key realization for me, which came in a flash, was the idea that neoliberalism is not a total worldview. Many people believe it is, but in fact it is a political-economic project that can articulate with several different and even competing projects of recognition—including progressive ones.
Nancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
Along with his partner and co-author Chantal Mouffe, he provided one of the earliest foundations for what would become identity politics. In their 1985 work Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Douglas Murray • The Madness of Crowds
The new defines itself in response to what is already established; at the same time, the established has to reconfigure itself in response to the new.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
Modern efforts to locate universalisms in secular ethical tenets –such as Kantian moral universalism, communism or modernization theory – are in apparent retreat, precisely at a time when nationalism has succumbed to capitalist forms of universal commodification.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
the rejection of the market as an organizing principle of social relations, the abolishment of private ownership of the means of production, and the nature and meaning of egalitarianism.
Karl Marx • Marx: Selected Writings (Hackett Classics)
Le XXIe siècle est placé sous le signe de l’entrée dans l’histoire universelle, soit une configuration qui peut sembler très éloignée du monde de la première moitié du XIXe siècle dans lequel a vécu, pensé et écrit Alexis de Tocqueville. L’heure n’est plus à l’ascension de la démocratie mais à sa crise face à l’onde de choc populiste et à
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