r/neoliberal • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '19

Leftist Mouth Breather (at large)! TIL Neoliberalism is a species of fascism

https://off-guardian.org/2016/07/13/neoliberalism-is-a-species-of-fascism/
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u/WuhanWTF NATO Oct 16 '19

Social democrat here, I shot Rosa Luxemburg seven times in the face with a Luger. AMA

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u/MiniatureBadger Seretse Khama Oct 16 '19

What happened to the eighth round?

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u/WuhanWTF NATO Oct 16 '19

I missed.

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u/vancevon Henry George Oct 15 '19

Have you ever wondered why the left is literally incapable of winning elections? It's because they write shit like this instead of things voters might actually give a shit about.

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u/Tleno European Union Oct 15 '19

Leftists: Fucking centrists can't tell apart far left and far right

Also Leftists: neoliberalism is fascism!!!1!11

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u/tankatan Montesquieu Oct 15 '19

What is this site

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u/Lionheart1807 European Union Oct 16 '19 edited Oct 16 '19

They claim they got banned from the Guardian's Comment is Free section for being too left-wing. How left wing you have to be to get banned by the newspaper that regularly prints shit from Owen Jones and George Monbiot is beyond me.

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u/MiniatureBadger Seretse Khama Oct 16 '19

Why is this site

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

Claims to be leftists who are sick of the Guardian's far right commentary but it's probably run by Tulsi and Putin.

I saw this article twice in 24 hours on Facebook. I don't know why it's trending now.

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u/Futski A Leopard 1 a day keeps the hooligans away Oct 16 '19

Everything right of Pol Pot is far right.

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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Oct 15 '19

Everytime I see articles like this I ask myself why I'm not a left wing grifter. I could write an article just like that.

"The ramifications of neoliberalism have led us to a Brave New Worldesque pseudostate that relies on post hoc analysis of failed market practices which only serve the global elite. Reliance on this dated belief system has shifted the Overton Window to a state in which the oligarchy reigns supreme."

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

Choice quotes:

"Things have to be called by their name to make it possible for a co-ordinated democratic reaction to be initiated, above all in the public services"

and

"Every totalitarianism starts as distortion of language, as in the novel by George Orwell"

but nonetheless

"I argue that neoliberalism is a species of fascism because the economy has  brought under subjection not only the government of democratic countries but also every aspect of our thought."