Buzzword Alert: ‘Neoliberalism’
4th December 2018
The Other McCain sounds the alert.
Permit me to register my protest against this word, which was coined in the past 15 or 20 years by the progressive Left (the kind of people who take Noam Chomsky seriously) as analogous to “neoconservative.” The purpose of the word “neoliberal” is to discredit anyone on the Left who would compromise with the Right. People who use this word mean to say that if you are not an outright socialist, you are a “neoliberal.”
Proglodytes love labels. They love having smear-words that they can attach to Heretics and Sinners. This is merely the latest fashion; as Wikipedia points out, it means whatever the user wants it to mean, but it’s never good.