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by Apocryphon 3936 days ago
So neoliberalism is socialism?
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If you are implying the US is somehow close to what neoliberal thinkers would propose, that couldn't be more wrong.

Neoliberalism doesn't mean watered down free-market liberalism. The term describes a certain movement in (classical) liberal thought which wanted to seperate itself from former thinkers primarily based on the time they where living in.

While those thinkers have little in common, they genuinely disliked a productive state (as in the production of goods or the delivery of a service), cartels, interventions in the price mechanism etc.

All of that is far away from what the US or European countries are currently doing.

At least in Europe it's also used as a meaningless buzzword to scare people who think that the prefix "neo" means evil.