Hong Kong Soars

[John K. Taber]

michael perelman wrote:
> 
> Louis Proyect wrote:
> 
> > This is ridiculous. There is no such thing as "neo-liberalism." You must be
> > referring to capitalism.
> 
> Terms like neo-liberalism gall me.  The right has been able to use Orwellian
> phrases at will without any resistance.  You want to destroy the social safety
> net, don't call it class labor, call it reform.  You want to destroy the
> ability of unions to have a political voice, call it paycheck protection ....
> A crisis means that the stock market has trouble.
> 
> The only leftish phrase that had any cachet was corporate welfare.

I don't understand the objection. I thought "neo-liberalism" was
a sarcastic and amusing play on "lib'rul" (as it is pronounced here
in Texas), which the Right has made into a dirty word for anything 
ranging from centrist to progressive. 

It seems only fitting to repay the dirty word to the Right with
sarcasm in full.

I kind of like calling libertarians "neo-lib'rul". It makes them 
fume. You know, like, that neo-lib'rul William Buckley?