by Meth Ean Tich Rist November 27, 2024
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Example: "Neoliberal totalitarianism is when your public university stops being a place of learning and becomes a 'student customer service center' selling 'credential packages.' When your local hospital's priority isn't health, but 'patient throughput efficiency.' When you're told to solve climate change not by regulation, but by 'voting with your dollar' for green products. The market isn't a tool; it's the only permitted reality."
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The linguistic and managerial toolkit of neoliberalism: calling citizens "customers" or "stakeholders," recasting public goods as "investment opportunities," and framing massive inequality as "talent retention." It uses the language of freedom, choice, and efficiency to justify the consolidation of power and wealth, making exploitation sound like empowerment and extraction sound like growth.
Example: "The corporate memo was pure Neoliberal Orwellianism: 'We're empowering our associates with a dynamic career transition opportunity (mass layoffs) to streamline our talent ecosystem (cut costs) and enhance shareholder value (boost stock price). Your severance is an investment in your future journey (you're on your own).' It translated human devastation into the sterile, positive-sounding jargon of a business school case study."
by AbzuInExile February 1, 2026
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by QuacksO March 5, 2026
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Someone who goes out of their way to do as little as possible.
Someone who goes out of their way to do as little as possible.
by Workshy Adam March 9, 2026
Get the Neroni mug.A specific form of Liberal Campism centered on defense of the neoliberal order—the post-1980s consensus of deregulation, privatization, free trade, austerity, and market fundamentalism. Neoliberal Campism describes those who align not just with Western powers but specifically with the economic architecture those powers have built: the WTO, IMF, World Bank, free trade agreements, structural adjustment programs, and the global regime of capital mobility. They defend neoliberalism not as one economic policy among others but as the natural, inevitable, and only reasonable way to organize economies—and they defend the institutions that enforce it against any challenge, whether from the left (protectionism) or the right (nationalism). Neoliberal Campism is the camp of the Davos set, the economics departments, the policy consensus that presents itself as beyond ideology.
Example: "He'd criticize any policy that interfered with 'free markets'—except when Western powers imposed 'free trade' by force, which was always 'helping them develop.' Pure Neoliberal Campism: the market is sacred, and the West is its prophet."
by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026
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Example: "She suggested that maybe some services are better provided publicly—and was dismissed as wanting to 'return to communism.' Neoliberal orthodoxy doesn't allow questioning of privatization; it's treated as obviously superior rather than contestable."
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