Neoliberal Fanaticism

A specific form of capitalist fanaticism, based on the neoliberal doctrine of deregulation, privatisation, austerity, and free trade as universal goods. The neoliberal fanatic applies market logic to every domain—education, healthcare, prisons, even personal relationships—and treats any form of state intervention as tyranny. They worship entrepreneurship, scorn welfare, and reduce democracy to consumer choice. Neoliberal fanaticism ignores historical evidence of market failures, the social destruction caused by austerity, and the role of state power in actually creating functioning markets. It is the ideology of financialised capitalism presented as common sense.

Example: “He insisted that selling state assets at fire‑sale prices was ‘efficiency’ even when it led to mass layoffs—neoliberal fanaticism, ideology dressed as economics.”

Neoliberal Fanaticism by Abzugal May 2, 2026