How did you come to choose the name ‘neoliberal’? The first Google result for the term ‘neoliberalism’ gives the following Wikipedia definition:
“Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as “eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers” and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.′
Which seems only partially aligned with your stated beliefs and contradictory to ‘a robust social safety net’
The idea was to reclaim what was previously a slur and turn it into a positive term, similar to what LGB people did with ‘queer’ and so on. This essentially began with Southwood and Bowman in 2016, and the Adam Smith Institute more generally.
While wikipedia is generally very good I wouldn’t necessarily rely on it for left-right wing issues due to the aggregate bias of the editors.
Thanks for the link. I’m not making any claim on wikipedia a being good or bad source of political information—I’m simply noting that it’s the first google result, and may be representative of what the majority of people think when they hear the term ‘neoliberal’. Certainly up to this point I’d only heard it used as an anti-capitalism slur.
So I’m interested to hear whether Jeremiah views this is a conscious decision to reclaim the term (as you said), and what to degree his beliefs actually align with the slur-term definition (which is very loosely defined).
The term came from wonkish people who supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary being called ‘neoliberals’ by Bernie Sanders supporters and general leftists. There was a sense of “If supporting Hillary and being a wonk is being a neoliberal, fine, I’m a neoliberal”.
How did you come to choose the name ‘neoliberal’? The first Google result for the term ‘neoliberalism’ gives the following Wikipedia definition:
Which seems only partially aligned with your stated beliefs and contradictory to ‘a robust social safety net’
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The idea was to reclaim what was previously a slur and turn it into a positive term, similar to what LGB people did with ‘queer’ and so on. This essentially began with Southwood and Bowman in 2016, and the Adam Smith Institute more generally.
While wikipedia is generally very good I wouldn’t necessarily rely on it for left-right wing issues due to the aggregate bias of the editors.
Thanks for the link. I’m not making any claim on wikipedia a being good or bad source of political information—I’m simply noting that it’s the first google result, and may be representative of what the majority of people think when they hear the term ‘neoliberal’. Certainly up to this point I’d only heard it used as an anti-capitalism slur.
So I’m interested to hear whether Jeremiah views this is a conscious decision to reclaim the term (as you said), and what to degree his beliefs actually align with the slur-term definition (which is very loosely defined).
The term came from wonkish people who supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary being called ‘neoliberals’ by Bernie Sanders supporters and general leftists. There was a sense of “If supporting Hillary and being a wonk is being a neoliberal, fine, I’m a neoliberal”.