If the Twitter/X thing teaches you one thing, let it be this: Twitter was a neoliberal place. Then Elon Musk made it into X, a fascist place. Once again, neoliberalism laid the foundations of fascism. But that’s not the (whole) lesson… Neoliberal folks are still using X, calling it Twitter to make themselves feel better, and pining for the good old days. And there’s the real lesson: When neoliberalism turns into fascism, neoliberals will adapt to life under fascism. Right, class dismissed.
Would the situation be the same if we were talking about mere liberalism, sans the “neo”?
I asked this question before reading the trenchant posts above that address various sides of the liberalism-versus-neoliberalism distinction, but the question still holds. Thanks, all.
@patrickgillam Potayto, potahto :)