This article in the @woz interviews Clara E. Mattei who wrote “The Capital Order. How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism” – and it really makes me want to read the book. Like: this talk didn’t start with Thatcher and returning to the year 1945 wouldn’t fix it. Even in the Great Depression workers had already lost much of their power. And instead “bad economic policies” are revealed to be purposefully engineered to keep people poor and working.

Mattei’s website:
https://www.claramattei.com/

WOZ interview, in German:
https://www.woz.ch/2350/austeritaet/die-geschichte-laesst-sich-als-waffe-gebrauchen/!AE29CDCMTY1