The dirty secret of the neoliberal era is that these ideas were never defeated in a great battle of ideas… — Naomi Klein
The dirty secret of the neoliberal era is that these ideas were never defeated in a great battle of ideas, nor were they voted down in elections. They were shocked out of the way at key political junctures. (p450)
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