I am once again losing my mind at people talking about neoliberalism as the ideology of favoring the market over state intervention. The neoliberals do not believe this, they never have. They believe in MASSIVE state intervention to CREATE and

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maintain the "market", to forge neoliberal subjects, and to destroy any group (from unions to communist parties to mutual aid kitchens) that opposes them. This is what distinguishes neoliberalism from libertarianism. Neoliberals use anti-state

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rhetoric as a tool to attack welfare programs and economic planning, they have no problems with (and in fact actively encourage) massive increases in the size of the army and the police and the proliferation of a bureaucracy of "transparency"

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designed to make the lives of the people who both provision and use state services as miserable as possible. Libertarians (and anarcho-capitalists) take arguments against the state seriously, hence their opposition to mass incarceration and the

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forever wars and their support for things like corporate mercenary armies to do the enforcement job of the state. Neoliberals keep libertarians around as a useful propaganda tool but they're never allowed to control the levers of power because

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neoliberals understand that contra their own public facing doctrines the market can only be created and maintained at gunpoint and that requires an ever-expanding state composed of goons with guns.

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