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A neoliberal is just a conservative in denial.
@aral Do they not consider themselves conservative?
@sashin Oh no, they’re liberal, haven’t you heard?
Just casually paving the way for fascism while rinsing their consciences with feel-good rhetoric.
@aral I view Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher as more or less villains ripped straight out of a cartoon.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al <Nim> A conservative is a liberal with no patience
@aral I like the phrase "vote laundering service" from Paulie Doyle to describe parties for those who are happy with right wing politics but embarrassed to be seen voting for them.
Not necessarily, and just because confused people align one with the other doesn't make it so.
Neo-liberalism is purely economic in nature, as a movement (of the upper class and their governing puppets), it has no social agenda.
Conservativism is very social in nature, even though this nature aligns them with preserving economic/class status quo.
G.Bush senior was a neoliberal, but was also very liberal socially, unlike Reagan. His son was just too dumb to tell the difference.
The main obstacle in understanding what neoliberalism actually is, today, is Marxist theory.
Classic Mtheory just doesn't allow neo-liberal capitalist development to be understood or even considered.
What Marxists have attempted is to describe a reality that fits theory (less and less so) instead of revising and correcting theory to explain reality.
Marxist theory today totally neglects dialectical materialism, it is unscientific, and stale.
Society has noticed!
@aral and a conservative is a neoliberal to be