Neoliberalism isn’t everything I don’t like, but it is a big one.
Just like MAGA and their fear of woke.
Is it, though?
They’re both made up to make a group of gullible people hate another group so yes.
Do you ever worry that you might be an idiot?
No.
Neoliberal isn’t made up. It was explicitly created by people like Milton Friedman, and came to prominence as a dominant political theory with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, which then took over the center-left and center-right to become dominant across the global north.
Maybe but these days leftists use it as a term for anything that scares them or they don’t understand.
That’s the most neoliberal thing I’ve ever heard.
Do you have kind of example of this?
I don’t think you really understand what “woke” is. Being woke is about critical analysis of traditional, established power hierarchies. Hierarchies like white supremacy, patriarchy or class. Maybe some neoliberals, to their credit, want to abolish traditional racial and gender hierarchies, and that’s good, but they certainly do not want to abolish the hierarchy of rich over poor, or capital over labor.
Woke is what MAGA calls things that scare them or they don’t understand just like leftists use neoliberal.
Does McCarthy calling everyone he didn’t like a communist or socialist mean that communism and socialism don’t exist?
and just how centrists call everyone to the left of joe biden ‘tankie’ instead of ‘woke’
You’re out here pissing off Tankies which is even better than having a post with a lot of likes.
OP is very neoliberal like that.
Neoliberalism is older than woke
I wish
If only we were still fighting Reaganites
liberal capitalism sucks ass and is built on a mountain of skulls, anyone defending it is beyond pathetic
So true queen. What did you think about the post tho?
do you think ‘neoliberalism’ is different in some way from what I described?
No, I completely agree with your comment, liberal capitalism has largely failed to deliver on its promises. I just don’t think the posted image itself is a defense of capitalism. It’s taking the piss out of people who blame everything on neoliberalism, which is a different thing from saying capitalism isn’t bad.
i think you’re being too generous to OP, he is definitely not an anticapitalist
I hadn’t taken note of who made this post. Whoops lol. That being said he also didn’t make the image, I’ve seen that exact meme posted elsewhere. I’m not sure SMCF believes in anything other than pissing off Lemmy.
