Economic democracy requires a prior shift in interpretive lens

Evidence

We must re-democratize the economy so that citizens can reclaim the most important choices that regulate the very foundations of their lives. That is a better way forward than anything capitalism has or can offer. What is the first step in this direction? It is a radical change of perspective. There is nothing more political than the lens through which we view the world. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 36

Categorization

• XREF: The claim ‘there is nothing more political than the lens’ connects to the reader’s key concept of ‘the invisible order’ — that how capitalism is SEEEN is itself a political construction. Also echoes standpoint-theory themes from the reader’s learning history. — connects to: Re-democratizing the economy begins with a radical change of perspective — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 36
• DEEPTHINKING: Mattei’s inversion — that the way we PERCEIVE the economy is itself the primary political battleground, prior even to policy — is the analytic hinge of her whole provocation about democracy and capitalism.