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neoliberal ideology took shape as a public phenomenon under the thatcher-reagan period. it's roots go further back--david harvey did a little book on it that's really useful in sorting this out historically. in the states, there's a linkage between hooverite republicans and neoliberalism by way of the hoover institution, which pioneered the mode of conservative thinktank operations that you saw proliferating during the 80s. reagan is a central player--rather his administration is a central player. the populist conservative movement that functioned as a political relay system and as a giant mystification of the actual implications of the ideology took shape more slowly, but was well in place by the clinton period. in theory, everyone involved in any way with any of this has alot to answer for.
what's curious still is the extent to which this period of neoliberal hegemony is still not understood for what it was.
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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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