text: Also, the above ideologies will all have different perspectives on democracy and the right to protest.
  I think perhaps Jeff’s point was that not only do the ideologies above not support protest but that they have all more or less collapsed into a technocratic ‘philosophy’ and practice, pulled into a singular point by the gravity of the market.
  I don’t really understand the point you are making. Political characterisations are necessarily abstractions, and within them you can always find contradictory trends. I could equally well say that your description of, say, libertarianism elides the various complexities within it.
  But to deny the emergence of a general current within both conservative and social democratic thinking over the last three decades that valorises and extends market forces in a distinctly new fashion is, IMO, just weird.
  The difference being those philosophies entail a set of key foundational social goals which define them within their tradition and differentiate them from other ideologies.
  This is why I can call someone a “liberal” based on their aim for society, similar with “social democrat”. Terms like “conservative” change over time but I can still come up with a list of *aims* that this group wishes to achieve.