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i cant remember how long since reading a future-looking piece from a leftist intellectual
The greatest opponents to neoliberalism are generally considered pretty right wing: Orban, Putin, Brexit, religious groups and tendencies, and lately "incels" and nativist "radical right wing" groupings. That's why they're so consistently demonized by all of neoliberalism's propaganda outlets. Soft socialism and cultural leftism, by contrast, is generally supported by neoliberal power centers like large corporations and your HR department.
There are certainly leftists who oppose neoliberalism as well, but the borg cube is better optimized to absorb them. Remember Occupy Wall Street? I miss those guys.