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196 Critical Theory, Democracy, and the Challenge of Neoliberalism that political economy and critical theory must be rejoined. So that there is no misunderstanding, we want to be clear that the necessary turn to political and democratic concerns by critical theory has generated much of continuing value.
Jan 1, 2019 · In light of the ‘widespread agreement that capitalism is (again) a problem’ (p. 2), and of the rise of right- and left-wing populist movements and parties around the world which signals the crumbling of neoliberalism’s legitimacy (p. 222), critical theory at its best can help social actors develop a clearer understanding of the conjuncture, including its latent emancipatory possibilities.
- James A. Chamberlain
- jac1287@msstate.edu
- 2020
Dec 12, 2023 · Contemporary critical theorists have expanded and enriched the Frankfurt School tradition by engaging with, and in some cases making contributions to, feminist theory, critical race theory, and postcolonial and decolonial theory (4.1), enlarging their analyses of crises beyond capitalism and its contradictions (4.2), and exploring a variety of critical practices ranging from civil disobedience ...
Abstract Capitalism and democracy follow different logics: unequally distributed property rights on the one hand, equal civic and political rights on the other; profit-oriented trade within capitalism in contrast to the search for the common good within democracy; debate, compromise and majority decision-making within demo-
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Oct 16, 2018 · While Habermas’s theory seeks to realize social freedom through law, Polanyi argues for the concrete institutionalization of social freedom through democratic self-organization and collective struggle in the economy. Critical theorists have drawn on Polanyi’s empirical categories like the double movement (Fraser, 2013, 2014), but I here ...
- Steven Klein, Steven Klein
- 2018
Sep 8, 2022 · The idea that capitalism and democracy are natural complements is by far the most prominent in public discourse. So closely are the two associated in the Anglophone imagination that, when confronted with the prospect of constraining one, most citizens will assume that the other will be constrained in equal proportion: “socialism” is almost as likely to be contrasted with “democracy” as ...
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Sep 7, 2022 · Focusing on nine “critical debates” it provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the tensions, contradictions, and latent emancipatory potential of contemporary global capitalism. The specific debates are as follows: capitalism’s relationship with democracy; privatization and governance of the commons; the financialization of ...
