The Choice of Civil War: Neoliberal Strategy and the Politics of the Enemy

by Pierre Dardot, Haud Gueguen, Christian Laval

How neoliberal governments neutralize democracy by treating citizens as a set of social enemies

Why do neoliberal policies continue to be implemented and supported by electoral majorities, despite their obvious economic failures and the ever-increasing tensions they produce in society?

To understand this, we need to reread the history of neoliberalism less from the point of view of its economic recipes than of the construction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 180429618X
• ISBN13: 9781804296189
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.