NEO-LIBERISM- a political movement in which some members of the American left (such as Michael Kinsley, Robert Kaus, Mickey Kaus, and Randall Rothenberg) endorsed some free market positions, such as anti-unionism, free market economics, and welfare reform.

 “I will close this lecture with a strange paradox: never was the need for radical social sciences more pressing than it is today, and yet this is just the time when the lines of columnists on the Western world, especially in France, are complaining about the abandonment of  “utopian ideals”, the demise of “revolutionary impulses”, the fall back into complacency, the final victory of neo-liberalism; this is just the time when the task that lies ahead is not only “revolutionary” but of truly “earth-shaking proportion”---and remember, all of those expressions are now literal not metaphorical.”

A Plea for Earthly Sciences—Bruno Latour, keynote lecture for the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association, East London, April 2007. Pg 11