Free economic participation generates a permanent political consensus among its agents.

Evidence

This economic institution,the economic freedom that from the start it is the role of this institution to guarantee and maintain, produces something even more real, concrete, and immediate than a legal legitimization; it pro…: duces a permanent consensus of all those who. may appear as agents within these economic processes, as investors, workers, employers,and trade unions. All these economic partners produce a consensus, which is a political consensus, inasmuch as they accept this economic game of freedom. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 550

Categorization

• XREF: This surplus-product consensus built from economic participation connects to Gramsci’s hegemony and Althusser’s interpellation — consent manufactured not by ideology but by material involvement. — connects to: Consensus is shaped and structured by unequal power rather than freely formed — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 919; Elites legitimate their power by invoking a consensus they themselves pre-structure — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 875; Political freedom is impossible without economic freedom — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 407 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Consensus is shaped and structured by unequal power rather than freely formed #contradicts (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 919
• Elites legitimate their power by invoking a consensus they themselves pre-structure #contradicts (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 875
• Economization and governance replace political contestation with managerial consensus. #contradicts (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 409
• Political freedom is impossible without economic freedom #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 407