The market fundamentalist ideology driving right-wing politics - an extreme ideology, backed by big money, which views the intrinsic worth of a person as determined by their wealth, and views taxation as theft & democracies as parasites.
By @MrMarkEThomas 99-percent.org/what-is-the-ma…
Market fundamentalism would be the stuff of a few cranks were it not supported by the members of the super-rich like Koch, Thiel and Mercer. It is a fundamentally anti-democratic doctrine which can only achieve its goals by crippling or destroying democracy.
Market fundamentalism is an inversion of Marxism. Whereas Marx wanted to free humans from the tyranny of the market, market fundamentalists regard the market as the true locus of freedom and everything that conflicts with it as tyranny. Hence their claim to be libertarians.
As with many variants of Marxism, market fundamentalism is profoundly anti-democratic. The views and opinions of ordinary people are not to be allowed to obstruct the path to true freedom. At best voters exist only to be manipulated and deceived.
Market fundamentalism aims to free the very rich from democracy. Which of course means that they will have to impose their rule over the rest of us. In short democracy will have to be replaced by kleptocracy. It's William Rees-Mogg's vision of the Sovereign Individual.
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