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"The old dispute between the Neoliberals and the Progressives was resolved when the Progressives conceded all the substantive points and the Neoliberals agreed to be called Progressives."
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Heather Long
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NEW: Kamala Harris needs to sell her economic vision. Itโ€™s not Bidenomics. And it's definitely not neoliberalism. It's something new. I'm calling it "middle-class capitalism." It appears to have 2 key elements: 1) Build-build-build. Build 3 million homes. Build factories. Build
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(I am referencing a 2010 blogpost coment)
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Matt Darling ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ—๏ธ
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I reference this 2010 comment on @MacRoweNick's blog all the time. x.com/bobsredmilf/stโ€ฆ
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๐™๐™๐™š ๐˜พ๐™–๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ช๐™จ ๐˜พ๐™–๐™จ๐™š ๐™๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ƒ๐™–๐™ง๐™ง๐™ž๐™จ ๐˜ˆ ๐˜’๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ข ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ-๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ฒ๐˜ถ๐˜ฐ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต?
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Matt Darling ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ—๏ธ
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(I am referencing a 2010 blogpost coment) x.com/besttrousers/s
Fun joke, but I do genuinely wonder: what does neoliberalism mean to you? Is there such a thing as a coherent neoliberal ideology? If so, what are its major tenets?
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Matt Darling ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ—๏ธ
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/neolib "the philosophical view that a societyโ€™s political and economic institutions should be robustly liberal and capitalist, but supplemented by a constitutionally limited democracy and a modest welfare state."
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Wut? Neoliberalism is pretty much the opposite of Progressivism. It's the philosophy of the hard right. The term is over a century old and has nothing to do with modern liberalism.
How do you work in the bit where hardcore leftists decided that folks who promote well-regulated markets w/ strong social safety nets were โ€œneoliberalsโ€ cuz they werenโ€™t proponents of full-on Marxist command economies & those non-Marxist liberals jokingly embraced the label?
You may have won the battle but lost the war (the full employment plan worked empirically but its merits were not sold effectively to the public). Instead they were propagandized about inflation. Now itโ€™s unlikely that a similar approach will be attempted again soon
โ€œ2) Help those who are struggling. Expand the CTC. Make childcare and eldercare more affordable. And aggressive anti-trust actions.โ€ These seem very non-neoliberal? Especially because childcare/elder care affordability sounds like subsidies or direct services
Oddly point 1 sounds like supply side economics which is associated with Reagan and long derided by both progressives and neo liberals.
Neolibs believe the free market should be freed, and gov should be constrained. This new thing, lets call it abundance liberalism, believes that the free market should be freed and gov should ALSO be freed and we should all make and do lots of cool stuff. A politics of yes.
Would be nice, but in fact both parties favor (very directly) subsidizing demand on nearly every issue. Neolibs, even when looking at demand, favor broad cash infusions, not tying stuff to spending x amount on y.
The first point (Build build build) could be called neoliberalism, but #2 is having more government intervention and spending to help people. It's the exact opposite of neoliberalism.
This is neoliberal cope, industrial policy as a first world country is high treason against neoliberalism. If deficit mongering remains as dead as its been under biden & MMT-lite talking points stick around thats another L for neoliberalism.
Think supply side progressivism has a greater role for government policy and investment in creating abundance than traditional neoliberalism