Capitalism freed economy and science from traditional political legitimation.
Evidence
Under capitalism, the economy, technology and science were to a great extent released from being tied into the framework of political power that had been supported by traditional world-pictures. The ideology of free and fair exchange, demystified but still based on ideas of benign coexistence, became the crucial legitimation for the social system. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 676
Categorization
- DEFINE: Habermas’s claim that free-and-fair-exchange ideology becomes advanced capitalism’s core legitimation after traditional world-pictures collapse.
- XREF: connects to: Capitalism governs through a technological rationality so pervasive that it no longer needs ideology — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 228; Capitalism created the first global economy based on economics rather than politics — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 173; Economics has replaced politics as the governing science of the state — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 154 (+2 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Capitalism governs through a technological rationality so pervasive that it no longer needs ideology — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 228; Capitalism created the first global economy based on economics rather than politics — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 173; Economics has replaced politics as the governing science of the state — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 154 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Technological progress legitimates capitalism as the best possible system
#complicates(0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 122