Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Hmm, excellent point about the bank bailouts. And it's certainly true that "free trade" or the "free market" is a complete chimera.
I agree that neoliberalism isn't coherent/consistent, but you can say much the same thing about Fascism. I would say neoliberalism in itself is not really an ideology, more just an economic system, but that the conviction that it's the best or only way to run an economy constitutes an ideology of sorts.
OK, so the nation-state is not destroyed wholesale but reduced to a sort of life support system for big business.
Edit: still, that's very different from nationalism, which aims to preserve and reinvigorate the cultural/religious/ethnic unity that nations were (once upon a time) defined by.
I agree that neoliberalism isn't coherent/consistent, but you can say much the same thing about Fascism. I would say neoliberalism in itself is not really an ideology, more just an economic system, but that the conviction that it's the best or only way to run an economy constitutes an ideology of sorts.
Precisely. The aim of neo-liberalism is not to destroy the nation state, but to hollow it out so it solely serves market interests.
OK, so the nation-state is not destroyed wholesale but reduced to a sort of life support system for big business.
Edit: still, that's very different from nationalism, which aims to preserve and reinvigorate the cultural/religious/ethnic unity that nations were (once upon a time) defined by.
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