How Propagandists for the 1% Are Manipulating Christian Teachings to Rob the Middle Class 

The neoliberal utopianism that caused the financial crisis has been repackaged for the 2012 election.

In order to understand the fervor of this continued popular support for failed policies, it is important to grasp the utopian, quasi-theological nature of neoliberal ideology. In the neoliberal worldview, the self-regulating market is not a merely human construct, but a form of naturally-occurring "spontaneous order" that produces optimum outcomes and maximum individual freedom if left completely unfettered. (13) It is, as Karl Polanyi pointed out in "The ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 17, 2012

in the US, neoliberalism’s utopian market fundamentalism meshes so readily with utopian strains of fundamentalist Christianity, thereby lending the neoliberal project a zealous sense of populist mission. A neoliberal class project is dressed up and sold as a patriotic religious project.

Fascism has been described as “a utopian movement in search of a utopia.” (20) Today’s Republican Party, headed by true believers Romney and Ryan, comes dangerously close to this description.

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