Consumer society bred depoliticization even as welfare states strengthened democracy

Evidence

While during this period the development of the welfare state strengthened popular support for democracy, privatist trends towards depoliticization already emerged in the course of the development of a consumer society (whose beginnings I probably overemphasized in Structural Transformation in the climate of the Adenauer period, which was experienced as authoritarian). — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 27

Categorization

• XREF: Self-correction over the 1962 classic directly; this is the sort of revisionism the reader wants as an Adorno counterpoint. — connects to: Neoliberal deregulation erodes democracy as politics abdicates to market pressure — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 81; Consumption practices have replaced political conviction as ideology — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 853; Depoliticizing economics is how the capitalist order sustains itself — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 21 (+5 more)

Related

• Neoliberal deregulation erodes democracy as politics abdicates to market pressure (similarity 0.82)
• Consumption practices have replaced political conviction as ideology (similarity 0.81)
• State-capitalism theory downgrades the economic base in favor of direct political domination (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Consumption practices have replaced political conviction as ideology #corroborates (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 853
• Ideology masks class by fragmenting people into individuals bound as consumers and citizens #expands (0.80)
• Depoliticizing economics is how the capitalist order sustains itself #corroborates (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 21
• Neoliberal deregulation erodes democracy as politics abdicates to market pressure #expands (0.75) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 81