Neoliberalism now openly abandons its claim that capitalism and democracy go together
Evidence
Neoliberalism has reached the point where it is now forced to undermine its own libidinal and ideological bases. The Troika’s naked attempts to unseat Syriza are unpicking the natural(ised) association of capitalism with democracy upon which capitalist realism has depended. In this final phase, capitalist realism cannot even muster the pretence that it can even tolerate democracy, still less that capitalism is the only political system compatible with democracy. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2001
Categorization
- XREF: Links to Fisher’s own concept of ‘capitalist realism’ developed elsewhere in his writing, and to the later ‘no alternative’ analysis. — connects to: Neoliberal doctrine pairs contradictory claims about markets guaranteeing democracy and freedom — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 189; Neoliberals redefine freedom as something to be limited and detached from democracy — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 119; Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with parliamentary democracy (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberal doctrine pairs contradictory claims about markets guaranteeing democracy and freedom
#expands(0.82) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 189 - Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with parliamentary democracy
#corroborates(0.80) - Neoliberals redefine freedom as something to be limited and detached from democracy
#expands(0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 119 - Neoliberalism combined support for liberal democracy with fear of mass democracy
#qualifies(0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 107 - Neoliberalism holds together several unresolved internal contradictions by asserting both sides at once
#expands(0.77) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2142 - Capitalism has no necessary political form but tends toward parliamentary democracy
#complicates(0.76) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 624 - Neoliberal rationality reduces the very desire for democracy
#expands(0.74) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 398 - The neoliberal state hollowed out parties to escape mass democracy’s brake on capital
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