Redistribution is anti-neoliberal – it’s a first step towards social justice and an end to neoliberalism
Brown 18 [Wendy Brown; Professor of Political Science and Class of 1936 First Chair at UC Berkeley; 1-18-2018; "Wendy Brown: "Who is not a neoliberal today?""; Tocqueville21; https://tocqueville21.com/interviews/wendy-brown-not-neoliberal-today/; Accessed 7-24-2023; AW]
The neoliberals rather sought to keep markets untouched by politics, to keep politics insulated from the emotional demands of the uneducated masses, and to avoid rent-seeking behavior from capitalists. But they also sought deregulation, privatization and an end to redistribution through taxation. In addition to redistribution, they opposed other measures of what they decried as “social justice.” They bore a general hostility to politics and the social in favor of a world dominated by what they believed was the spontaneous order produced by markets and traditional morality. These are the norms by which we live today. So while “actually existing neoliberalism” is very different from the dream of the founders, it was nonetheless spawned by that dream.