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user-inactivated · 2849 days ago · link · · parent · post: Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Books | The Guardian
The "liberal" in neoliberal is the same as the "liberal" in "classical liberal", that is it's a reactionary revival of Adam Smith/John Locke style economic thought from the dawn of capitalism before we saw the gilded age and the cruelties of the industrial revolution and learned to be as skeptical of industry as Enlightenment revolutionaries were of aristocrats. Ideology shapes policy, addressing individual policies is just playing whack-a-mole when what you really need to do is smash the whack-a-mole machine.