> The fact that "neoliberalism" is considered left should seriously concern anyone who has opened a history book.

The problem is with the word liberalism in US. For Europeans: Liberalism == right wing...

I guess it has taken a more cultural sense in US, where US liberalism is more about morals than economics (drugs, sex, gender, immigration...) and became a synonym for progressive, as opposed to conservatism and its pseudo religious aspects.

Neo-liberalism clearly has a negative connotation in Europe, at least politically, it is synonym of ultra capitalism.