Citizens’ political equality is undercut by their economic dependence on employers

Evidence

Zini critiqued the abstract, indirect concept of political freedom: in short, he said that political freedom is impossible in the presence of “economic unfreedom,” the state of market dependence in which the majority of people are forced to sell their labor power in order to survive. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 533

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Economic dependence on wage labor hollows out political citizenship. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 406; Formal political equality masks deep economic servitude that hollows out democracy — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 406; Defunding public services structurally forces wage-dependence and demobilizes workers — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 145 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Formal political equality masks deep economic servitude that hollows out democracy #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 406
• Economic dependence on wage labor hollows out political citizenship. #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 406
• Political freedom is impossible when economic dependence forces people to sell their labor #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 533
• Real political participation requires eliminating economic inequality as a cause of unequal political access. #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2342
• Defunding public services structurally forces wage-dependence and demobilizes workers #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 145
• Complete political equality requires prior economic equality #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 957
• Free-market labor is unfreedom whose abolition could liberate human autonomy #qualifies (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 108