The moral engineering of neoliberalism

Abstract

This work exposes the historical and social construction of the ideological foundations that constitute neoliberalism not only as a specific economic doctrine of the relationship between the public and private spheres of politics, but as a "civilizatory" and utopian class project of modern capitalism of the new right that accompanies the globalizing process. This project contains a concrete moral, necropolitical, as well as a dogmatic interpretation of social reality that seeks to impose a hegemonic common sense favorable to their interests: individualism, utilitarianism, inequality, social Darwinism, precariousness, Fetishism, racism, privatization and commodification of all facets of life. For the understanding of the principles and objectives of neoliberalism, a historical trajectory is presented and this analyzes the essential ideological and conceptual proposals of both representatives of classical liberalism and those of its neoliberal continuators.