ASPartOfMe wrote:
Neoliberal - A pejorative used to describe anyone who is not ideologically pure enough for the person using the term.
If you call someone a fascist you will get arguments about why that person does not fit the definition. If you call someone woke you will get arguments as to why the term is illegitimate. I guess socialists after a hundred or so years got tired of using “capitalist”, and MAGA’s are getting tired of using “RINO” since they have successfully driven them out of power. While Democratic Socialists and MAGA’s can hardly agree on anything they both agree neoliberals are the problem. While they may not agree on exactly what neoliberal means in our polarized times we need to celebrate anytime people agree about anything.
I'm not sure what you're claiming has much basis in reality. Neoliberalism has a fairly clear definition, those who adhere to it are neo-liberals. The fact that both mainstream liberals and mainstream conservatives from previous decades fit the definition isn't proof there's no coherent definition, it's proof that it became the default ideology in the Anglosphere.
Your observation about socialists getting tired of using capitalist misses the mark, socialists have been condemning liberalism for ages. Neo-liberalism is just the current flavour of laissez-faire capitalism to condemn, but they've always been opposed to the idea of laissez-faire capitalism regardless of how laissez-faire capitalism is branded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
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