The Daily Shaarli
April 12, 2020
But neoliberalism is a thing, and it is more than a paradigm of politics and markets. Neoliberalism names an attempt to remake human life in the image and likeness of the market. It is a moral and metaphysical imagination in which capitalist property relations provide the template for understanding the world. “There is no alternative,” as Thatcher once declared, because there truly is no alternative; there is only one holistic system of systems, and it is capitalism all the way down.
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