Neo-Neoliberalism

 In “The Great Moving Right Show (1979),” Stuart Hall argues that the recomposition of educational institutions during the swing to the right was brought by concerns about working-class illiteracy, politically-motivated teachers in the classroom, “violent” urban schools, immigrant intake, and of course, labor (182). I thought this was a great reminder about how the history and social function of universities (and other educational apparatuses) tends to be depoliticized. What can we gain from a Marxist analysis of the university (some ideas for discussion: institutional vs. individual accumulation; expropriation of lands, resources, people; intellectual labor; Iowa as a center-right institution)? 

I was interested in Hall’s critique of the New Labour Party, especially its appropriation of the neoliberalism and its analysis of global capitalism as “an automatic and self-instituting principle, requiring no particular social, cultural, political or institutional framework” (The Great Moving Nowhere Show, 289). What are the present stakes of neoliberalism? How is neoliberalism reproduced at the everyday-level, and how can we resist and transform these daily practices?