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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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Religion is as much a worldview and practices is it is tenets and creeds. (Indeed, it is more the former than the latter.) People can live under capitalism qua neoliberalism and not realize it. That ideology is so strong everyday people assume its misunderstandings to be final.
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