BF199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Totalitarianism, Hardtalk, Kurdistan Workers' Party
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Neolibs and neocons, freedom from oppression, through oppression and of oppression. Harvey, david a brief history of neoliberalism, p1-7, 14-19, 64-71, 75-86. David harvey a brief history of neoliberalism. In bf190, we looked at liberalism (represented by locke and mill) and conservatism (represented by burke) as diverging political ideologies that exist within the modern. Enlightenment tradition that tends of favour democracy, or at least to fear despotism. However, these classical versions of liberalism and conservatism proved fairly difficult to apply to our contemporary political landscape. Harvey traces these developments to the emergence of a new ideology which he argues is dominant today: neoliberalism (to which neoconservatism then emerges in reaction). Neoliberalism is a political economic theory that proposes that human wellbeing can be best advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets and fair trade. The government is too big and it is interfering with the economy.
