The Dig: A History of Neoliberalism with Quinn Slobodian
Jacobin Radio
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The Role of the State in the Free Market
In vienna, one question that comes to mind is what role they saw state violence and coercion playing in their vision of a democratic freemarket. In the book, i write about this instance o your referencing 19 27, there is a wild cat strike, kind of worker's uprising in the middle of vienna. And the state declares an emergency and sends out police and kills om dozens of workers. The way that we understand musu's reaction to this, based on his biographer and his own memoirs, was that it was a moment when the potential strength of the socialist movement found its limits.
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