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Apr 7, 2020 · Joseph Schumpeter saw firsthand the transformative power of democracy in Red Vienna Austria and New Deal America. But as a conservative, he recoiled at workers' challenges to traditional hierarchies — reminding us that the Right has always loathed democracy.
Joseph Schumpeter's 1942 book, Capitalism Socialism and Democracy, is probably best remembered for the two chapters on democracy. Chapter 21 is an influential critique of a vaguely defined, loosely located theory that he descnbes as the classical doctnne.
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May 14, 2018 · Perhaps the best critique of Schumpeter’s theory comes from another Austrian émigré, Hans Kelsen, who insists on a stronger and deeper participatory conception of democracy as “government by the people,” even as he, too, defends representative democracy (Kelsen 1955).
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Schumpeter criticizes what he calls the classical doctrine of democracy, that the people through their common will elect representatives to realize the common good.
Schumpeter did this by separating democracy, as a political method, from the question of broader political ends, thus deploying an analytical strategy intended to guard against the subversion and erasure of moral discourse from the political order.
why any attempt to redefine democracy as Schumpeter suggested would soon be resisted-why the meaning of "democracy," that is, should have been vigorously contested. Before long, critics pointed out the inherent limits and conservative ideological implications of the "elite" or "contemporary" school of democratic
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Apr 23, 2018 · 4 Space constraints prohibit discussion of the “super-normal” upper-bourgeois business classes, and why Schumpeter considers them incapable of political leadership.
