Here's the author discussing the point of her book, and explaining why recent British governments are recapitulating the internal decline and collapse of the USSR (TLDR seems to be that neoliberalism shares the same epistemological errors as Soviet communism and is now ideologically unmoored from reality and running on fumes): https://youtu.be/O_H_1Akaip0?si=aAnTFJ0mJkDvPZUc https://hcommons.social/@pepe/112625201882698418