{"id":394306,"date":"2019-01-26T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-liberal-state-is-no-more\/"},"modified":"2019-01-26T19:07:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T18:07:03","slug":"the-liberal-state-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-liberal-state-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"the Liberal State is No More"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In a previous article<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>I argued that often confusing and divergent arguments within the neoliberal critique could be best understood as the tensions between two opposing currents of thought. One tendency understands neoliberalism as the unfettered reign of the free market, often called Free Market Fundamentalism (FMF), the other sees neoliberalism as the fusion of the corporation and the state sometimes called Corporate Power.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s FMF\u00a0what does that mean for activism. If it\u2019s Corporate Power what does that imply for strategy?<\/p>\n

The greater the emphasis on FMF\u00a0then the more possible it might seem to re-regulate the corporations back to within tolerable limits after recapturing the state through elections.\u00a0The greater the emphasis on corporate power the less possible incremental (primarily) electoral approaches seem, and the more likely that revolutionary measures will be required to abolish corporate power.<\/p>\n

You Can\u2019t Go Home Again<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

FMF remains such a popular idea among progressives precisely because it allows us to imagine an easy escape. That escape is a return to the liberal-regulatory state that governed the US between the mid-1930s and mid-1970s. The problem \u2014 and most likely an insurmountable one \u2014 is that the old liberal-regulatory state was dismantled and replaced by a new corporate-regulatory state.<\/p>\n

This bit of wishful thinking also forgets that the now defunct liberal state was codified by law and mandated by…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair In a previous article\u00a0I argued that often confusing and divergent arguments within the neoliberal critique could be best understood as the tensions between two opposing currents of thought. One tendency understands neoliberalism as the unfettered reign of the free market, often called Free Market Fundamentalism (FMF), the other sees neoliberalism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}