• Please help me proofread this thesis I need to write for my political science degree
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[b]Neoliberalism: Fighting Phantoms[/b] Neoliberalism is everywhere these days. If you follow politics, barely a day will pass without hearing the word ‘neoliberalism’. Neoliberalism is supposedly ubiquitous, all-powerful, and ever present. So what is neoliberalism? As it turns out, nobody really knows. It is usually not expanded upon beyond being related to free market economics by those who invoke it, though some attempt to go further. The best critics of neoliberalism define it absurdly broadly and vaguely to the point of it becoming meaningless, besides as a way to describe the shift of political gravity to the right since the 1980s. The worst critics of neoliberalism sound like the fevered rantings of a conspiracy theorist. The word ‘neoliberal’ can easily be replaced with lizard men, ruling us from shadowy societies in the Alps. Neoliberal societies find themselves willing to have progressive taxation, a relatively large welfare state and to frequently intervene in the market, despite their aforementioned free market fundamentalism. This is generally hand-waved away under the explanation that neoclassical economics and neoliberalism are not the same. However, if you remove even the idea of free market fundamentalism from your definition of neoliberalism, there is nothing left at all, besides a worthless word to describe society as a whole in 2016. By describing everything, you are describing nothing. In a society, which by any reasonable standard, has a high degree of political freedoms, holds fair elections and has free speech, this supposed secretive dominance of an anonymous ideology is impossible. Anyone looking honestly at our society will see that we have a wide range of ideological influences which shape our society, whether they be free-market economics, liberalism or socialism. One word to describe all of this is simply inadequate. The focus upon neoliberalism is a lazy way method to channel the anger that many are feeling in the post-2008 world. It is a way to create a simple target for attack to try to rally those ideologically close to you. Unfortunately, they are wasting their time and energy fighting a phantom. Anything this simplistic is never true. It is cliché, but true, that everything is usually a bit more complicated than that. This pattern of useless buzzwords is mirrored across politics. A feminist might blame all societal problems upon a vaguely defined patriarchy, or free-speech activists may blame the so-called regressive left. Whilst neoliberalism, the patriarchy, and the regressive left do describe something that does, in a sense, exist, when used as they are today, they simply become lazy and useless criticisms resting upon a scary sounding buzzword. None are either adequate or useful explanations of societal problems, regardless of where you sit politically, and as such should be avoided in debate like the plague. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("Alt of permabanned user" - Novangel))[/highlight]
Is that the whole thesis?
Facepunchers are not reliable proof-readers. I don't even know how to feel about this being your first post. Also where are your scholarly references? I seriously doubt this is for a thesis, but it will need them even if it's just an essay.
this is not a thesis this is so far away from being a thesis it's actually fucking embarrassing :goodjob:
I'm confused about why someone went to my blog, posted my only post that I put together in 20 minutes, and then posted it as my thesis. But okay. (seriously, who is this?)
[QUOTE=FlashMarsh;50356411]I'm confused about why someone went to my blog, posted my only post that I put together in 20 minutes, and then posted it as my thesis. But okay. (seriously, who is this?)[/QUOTE] Weird. Good post though.
I get the feeling it is someone from SH who doesn't like me (or my opinions). But maybe it is just some random troll.
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