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free markets exist and are rational. the state is a source of irrationality. regulation impedes the heroic advances of capital. social justice, to the extent that it matters, results from the circulation of wealth accumulated by the holders of capital. advocates of monetarism--"fiscal conservatism" in american-speak. capital and not labor creates wealth. redistribution of wealth results in perverse effects like a "culture of dependency"---social welfare programs are therefore irrational. fear of the public, of public space, of organizations that are not controlled by capital--whence opposition to union activity for example. cult of the isolated individual, rejection of the entire idea of the social.
you know the ideology because it's the "washington consensus" or "free-market capitalism" or "fiscal conservatism".
neoliberalism is the name for this ideology that's used most everywhere in the world except for in the united states, where even now it has no name.
hope that helps.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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