If you are looking at what is wrong with the world from the left, you'll hear #Neoliberalism thrown around a lot. David Harvey's (@profdavidharvey) Brief History of Neoliberalism helped me to understand the ideology that is as ubiquitous as water to a fish in the west.

Harvey lays out the roots and modern iterations of Neoliberalism, the practical impact of the ideology, the shift to Neoconservatism, and the cracks in the ideology that could be exploited.

If the neoliberal definitions for freedom continue to define our conceptions of freedom, those ‘whose income, leisure and security need no enhancing' will continue to control resources.

Definitions:

"Neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade. The role of the state is to create and preserve an institutional framework appropriate to such practices" (Harvey 2).

"The neoconservatives therefore emphasize militarization as an antidote to the chaos of individual interests. For this reason, they are far more likely to highlight threats, real or imagined, both at home and abroad, to the integrity and stability of the nation. In the US this entails triggering what Hofstadter refers to as ‘the paranoid style of American politics’ in which the nation
is depicted as besieged and threatened by enemies from within and without" (Harvey 82).

PDF: www.proglocode.unam.mx/sites/proglocode.unam.mx/files/ABriefHistoryNeoliberalism.pdf