• unfreeradical@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Based on your own enlightened, non-“cargo cult” understanding, from the books or other sources you would feel most inclined to recommend, how would you summarize the essential transitions in cultural ideals, respecting personal relationships and values, during neoliberalism?

    • orrk@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      The defining difference between liberalism and neoliberalism is the expansion of a focus on the economics, mainly adapting and building on some of the differences between the east and west block during the fall of USSR, there fundamentally wasn’t a change in cultural ideals, personal relationships and values in comparison to its predecessors.

        • orrk@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          the school of neoliberal ideology only came into inception post WW2, and didn’t catch on until the thatcher and Regan era, and only actually gained much power after the collapse of the USSR, in part because it purported to explain the collapse of the USSR

          • unfreeradical@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            Other than Reagan and Thatcher rising to highest office, which political or economic events would you identify as most significant for the transition from the period of embedded liberalism to neoliberalism?