Economic reason usurped political subjectivity only near the end of the twentieth century.

Evidence

Only toward the end of the twentieth century did homo oeconomicus (in its distinctly neoliberal iteration) finally get the better of homo politicus, usurping its territory, terms, and objects both in the figure of the human and the polity. If this process were to become complete, if homo politicus were really vanquished, it would darken the globe against all possibilities of democratic or other just futures. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 172

Categorization

• XREF: Gives the historical tipping point for the reader’s account of when democracy began eroding. — connects to: The economic level is necessary but not sufficient to explain politics and ideology. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 621; Under late capitalism, political questions become inseparable from theoretical ones — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 26; Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The economic level is necessary but not sufficient to explain politics and ideology. #expands (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 621
• Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features #expands (0.85)
• Economic growth weakened political factors and made economic capacity the modern prerequisite of power #corroborates (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 179
• Ideological factors lag behind economic ones and require conscious political struggle #complicates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 719
• Under late capitalism, political questions become inseparable from theoretical ones #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 26