Neoliberalism and anti-state ideology on the US left

There's an odd current of hostility towards the state among today's socialists and Marxists, and anarchism doesn't explain it.

“The best response to the plans of the imperialists is the strengthening, industrialization, and cooperation of the USSR.”

I regret to inform you that Jonathan Chait was half-right. Chait, you may recall, used to spend a lot of time complaining about the term neoliberal, insisting that it doesn’t really mean anything and that it really just functions in …