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I don;t know Louis -- I think neoliberalism is a useful term for the current structure of capitalism -- I am pretty persuaded by the SSA school *(I reviewed Kotz's most recent book for Challenge a year or so ago). Capitalism has gone through a few different iterations in the 20th (now 21st) century(ies) and the neo-liberal version is particularly disgusting for ordinary people (the post WWII period was pretty good for segments of the working class -- even relatively improving the lives of people of color and women in general ---) --- since 1980, no such improvements and lots of back-sliding --- On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 8:00 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > I don’t really like the term ‘neoliberal’ because it is used lazily as > an alternative to pro-capitalist policies or even to the word > ‘capitalism’ itself. In doing so, it causes confusion in explanations > about trends and failures in capitalist development. What flows is the > argument that if ‘neoliberalism’ is ended, then we can return to > ‘managed capitalism’ or social democracy’, neither of which, in my view, > should be used to suggest something different from the capitalist mode > of production itself. > > And if leftists continue to use ‘neoliberalism’ as a term to replace > capitalism (or as some nasty ‘free market version), they open the door > to the sort of nonsense that economic journalist Noah Smith concocted > last week, as expressed in his Bloomberg piece: “Neoliberalism should > not be a dirty word on the left”. > > full: > https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/neoliberalism-not-so-bad/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mameerop%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
