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- Classical liberalism has long maintained that capitalism and democracy are complementary—that both mutually reinforce the same demand for freedom or, at the very least, that the freedom democracy requires fits best with a competitive market system.
4 days ago · The contradictions of liberalism—its role as a facade for capitalism in the name of individual freedom and neoliberal democracy—are becoming increasingly unsustainable. Freedom is not a commodity to be bought and sold in the capitalist market; it is both self-realisation and the collective fulfilment of everyday needs and aspirations.
Mar 11, 2020 · Democracy and capitalism coexist in many variations around the world, each continuously reshaped by the conditions and the people forming them. Increasingly, people have deep concerns about both.
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- 1 Rational Markets and Irrational Democrats
- 2 The Frayed Ends of Democratic Capitalism
- 3 Capital and Coloniality
Already in the 1940s, Schumpeter lamented that the true benefits of capitalism can only be appreciated by those taking a much more long-term, utilitarian view of society and progress than could be expected of most citizens (Schumpeter 2003 [1943]: 144–5). Hayek, for his part, worried that a citizenry of “employees” will fail to appreciate the needs...
Criticism of postwar social democracy was not confined to liberal conservatives. Ironically, as the intellectual parents of neoliberalism were using rational choice models to show the limits of the democratic welfare state, critical theorists of the New Left were accusing the democratic welfare state of turning citizens into the “one-dimensional” m...
While many anticolonial thinkers of the mid-twentieth century took inspiration from Marxist revolutionary theory, its limitations when transposed from the capitalist core to the global periphery were apparent. For one thing, classical Marxism proved no less beholden than other European accounts of modernity to a philosophy of history that harbored ...
But there is a decisive difference: whereas certain forms of capitalism produce and function with an extreme concentration of wealth and capital, democracies cannot coexist with a similar constellation and concentration of power. Finally, capitalism and democracy can support each other.
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Jul 10, 2021 · Global capitalism seems to be placing democracy, especially liberal democracy, under considerable stress. Support for populism has surged, especially for extreme right parties with populist and authoritarian programs.
In this chapter I review four ways of theorizing the relationship between capitalism and democracy. Classical liberalism has long maintained that capitalism and democracy are complementary—that both mutually reinforce the same demand for freedom or, at the very least,
Mar 9, 2018 · Financial capitalism is harmful for democracy, since it has cracked its social and political “embeddedness.” This does not mean that capitalism per se is incompatible with democracy. A sustainable coexistence of capitalism and democracy is best achieved through mutual embedding.
