One of the more surprising things about the 2008 financial crisis is how little it managed to dislodge the neoliberal orthodoxy that had emerged during the 1970s, the prior era of economic upheaval. Instead, what many have called the Great Recession seemed actually to accelerate the move towards neoliberalism characterized by financialization and 'accumulation by dispossession identified by such theorists as David Harvey decades before. By 2016, politics seemed to have finally caught up with reality, though not in the way many progressives had hoped. For while the revolt against neoliberalism on the left largely failed to gain political traction, or even to articulate a coherent alternative to the failed economic order, the field was seized by the populist right, whose program signaled not so much the end of the neoliberal project as it did (to twist Brittan, who had twisted Dubcek) the appearance of neoliberalism with an inhuman face, or perhaps just neoliberalism with its mask off.
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