Neoliberalism’s construction of persons and states is emptying out democratic principles publicly.
Evidence
Having opened with stories, I hasten to add that this is mainly a work of political theory whose aim is to elucidate the large arc and key mechanisms through which neoliberalism’s novel construction of persons and states are evacuating democratic principles, eroding democratic institutions and eviscerating the democratic imaginary of European modernity. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 42
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Neoliberal homo oeconomicus dissolves the citizen-bourgeois split that defined liberal democratic political life. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 546; Neoliberalism suppresses both liberal and radical-democratic traditions. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 13; The neoliberal state hollowed out parties to escape mass democracy’s brake on capital (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberal economic rationality is extinguishing the domains through which democracy materializes.
#corroborates(1.00) - Neoliberalism redefines citizenship as mere customerhood to justify consolidating power within the state.
#expands(0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 159 - The neoliberal state hollowed out parties to escape mass democracy’s brake on capital
#corroborates(0.85) - Neoliberal rationality reduces the very desire for democracy
#corroborates(0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 398 - Neoliberalism’s weakening of democratic values enables neoconservative moralism and authoritarianism
#expands(0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 169 - Neoliberal market discipline deliberately breaks political subjectivity and weakens solidarity.
#expands(0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 334