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Thank you (especially about the new edition). I suppose the critique of neoliberalism is in the book as well, or would I have to go to a separate book for that? That's what I think I love about SS Wolin, him very comfortably taking all the symptoms into a single, reasonably clear vision.

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by fairleft (fairleftatyahoodotcom) on Sun Jan 31st, 2010 at 03:22:53 PM EST
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Yes, it's in the book. Wolin doesn't really provide a critique of neoliberalism as an economic doctrine. (In fact, he doesn't use the term the way we do, and what he refers to as "neo-liberalism" is the turn liberalism as a political ideology took in the fifties.) What he does is take it as self-evident that the dismantling of the welfare state is a bad thing, and consider the political implications of a large segment of the population having an increasingly precarious economic existence.

A bomb, H bomb, Minuteman / The names get more attractive / The decisions are made by NATO / The press call it British opinion -- The Three Johns
by Alexander on Sun Jan 31st, 2010 at 03:55:55 PM EST
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