Še enkrat o neoliberalizmu I: ekonomija

At the latest during the recent recession, which began in 2008, local public spaces have been ignited by discussions of neoliberalism. In these discussions, neoliberalism is mostly understood as a zero sum game between the state and the economy, in which the economy is winning (at least temporarily). This means that the supposedly pre-existing “social logic” of the capitalist economy is being forced upon public and governmental institutions in a kind of reprisal of the deregulated, liberal capitalism of the 19th century, facilitated by mass expropriations, privatisations, an irrational growth of the financial sphere, and the spread of the neoliberal economic ideology. The thesis of this article will be the opposite, however: neoliberalism changes both the state, as well as the economy, and is, as such, a qualitatively new, and not a recurring, socioeconomic and political process. The article will deal mostly with economic dimensions of neoliberalism (lean production, new forms of work, and financialisation) and will attempt to capture both the newness and the complexity of neoliberal changes.Že vsaj od začetka nedavne recesije leta 2008 je javni prostor poln razprav o neoliberalizmu, kjer je neoliberalizem razumljen kot igra ničelne vsote med državo in ekonomijo, v kateri ekonomija (vsaj začasno) zmaguje, tj. kot prenos predobstoječe »družbene logike« kapitalistične ekonomije na področje javnih institucij in javne uprave, kar naj bi pomenilo vrnitev v deregulirani, liberalni kapitalizem 19. stoletja skozi procese množičnega razlaščanja in privatizacij, iracionalnega razraščanja finančne sfere in širitve neoliberalne ekonomske ideologije. Teza tega članka je nasprotna: neoliberalizem spremeni delovanje – tako delovanje države kot ekonomije in je nov, in ne povratniški socioekonomski in politični proces. V članku se ukvarjamo predvsem z ekonomsko razsežnostjo neoliberalizma (vitka produkcija, nove oblike dela in financializacija), pri čemer poskušamo zajeti tako novost kot kompleksnost neoliberalnih sprememb