<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I suggest we distinguish neoliberalism from neoconservatism as follows:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~ neoliberals call for a deregulated American capitalism: more exploitation;</div><div class="">~ neoconservatives call for an 'unleashed’ American military: more war.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both arise in the 1970s in reaction to the ‘crisis of democracy’ - i.e., the demand for more democracy that grew out of the opposition to the Vietnam war, and led to popular opposition to war and economic exploitation. (The first motto of Students for a Democratic Society was, “Let the people decide!”)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">But American presidents for 40 years have pursued pro-war (neocon) and pro-Wall Street (neolib) policies. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The attempt to make the definitions pellucid can get out of hand: I wrote the following after Trump’s election.</div><div class=""><div class="">========================================================================================</div></div><div class="">In the US political lexicon, neo-liberalism is not liberalism (roughly, the New Deal-Great Society tradition), but its opposite.</div><div class=""><br class="">Similarly, neo-conservatism is not conservatism (roughly, the isolationist tradition), but its opposite.<br class=""><br class="">Can we assume, then, the current vogue term, 'neo-fascism,' means not fascism (of the 20th century sort) - but its opposite?<br class=""><br class="">That at least is the danger that the US political establishment perceives in the Trump presidency.<br class=""><br class="">Classic fascism combined what we call neoliberalism (state-supported economic exploitation, at home and abroad) and neoconservatism (militarist repression, abroad and even at home).<br class=""><br class="">Fascism's defeat in WWII led in 'les trente glorieuses' (1945-75) to the welfare state and the United Nations.<br class=""><br class="">But beginning in the 1970s, dominant social groups in Europe and America began the overthrow of the welfare state and the UN, accomplished in the 1990s ('austerity ' and Clinton's non-UN-approved attack on Yugoslavia) - after the 1991 destruction of 'the threat of a good example’ (i.e., the socialist ideal, whatever the practice), the USSR.<br class=""><br class="">Trump is the first major party presidential candidate since the 1970s not to pay homage to the principles of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. <br class=""><br class="">That's why the US political establishment is so desperate to force those principles on the new administration.</div><div class=""><div class="">========================================================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>—CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 11, 2017, at 6:21 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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