Neoliberal Identity Poltics

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Hi hi, this is for talking about Neoliberalism, and Identity Politics. Resources, definitions, ideas.

Mitchel Dean and Daniel Zamora wrote of neoliberalism when referencing Quinn Slobodan's 'Globalists: The End Of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism':

'[neoliberalism] was, in its Austrian version, extremely attentive to the desire to build a 'constitutionalised' economic order sheltered from the vagaries of democracy. One of its great successes was precisely not to oppose the 'authoritarian impulses' of the Keynesian order but to 'insulate' the economic system from democratic spaces by a legal system that, in Hayek's words, would 'dethrone politics'.

i love this 'cause of the whole dethrone politics idea. like to me it's saying neoliberalism is such an affront to politics that we're having to think up all these ways to defend our place in democracy through identitty politics.

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Neoliberalism underpins the way identity politics are currently engaged with in the most broad sense – and is what makes some of the most pervasive forms of identity politics so ineffective at truly challenging inequality. What do you all think are some ways we can think about identity politics which escape some of the main issues? And what do you see as the main issues with neoliberal identity politics?