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Kinda curious how “capitalism” as an ideal only exists in the heads of people opposed to it. The term points to a series of historic pseudo-equilibrium conditions that are unified only by being paths of least coordination resistance through their eras.
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Never actually been defined at the level of say communism. The Washington consensus is at best a small set of rules about how to push a small set of key levers. It’s not an ideology but a recipe.
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Really? The way neoliberals talk about the invisible hand, their steadfast anti-regulatory agenda, their meltdown over the quantitative easing that ended the Great Recession? What is most ideological is they just see it as "capitalism", rather than a variation with pros and cons.
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You’re reductively defining neoliberalism to be the opinions of a few policy wonks who have design authority over a few key bits of it. Most of the millions of people who participate voluntarily in it have never heard of any of this. Like say random Chinese small-time exporter.
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I understand point your point in relation to definition. I'm noting that many conservatives hold to neoliberal principles in an ideological way. Neoliberalism has been revealed to be misguided by decades of good work, yet its tenets have become a belief system on the right.
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