Scholars read Polanyi’s double movement as either cyclical or structurally continuous

Evidence

Goodwin (2018) distinguishes two principal approaches to this question of temporal dynamics in contemporary applications of the double movement: “The first sees the double movement revolve around economic liberalism, while the second views it as a fundamental contradiction in market capitalism. Scholars in the first group focus on the neoliberal stage of capitalism, seeing this as the start of a new cycle of the double movement. Authors in the second camp point towards underlying continuities in capitalist development, interpreting the double movement as a longer-term, continuous historical process. Exponents of the former reading suggest the double movement can be eased or overcome through reform, while advocates of the latter claim more radical solutions are required” (1269). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 680

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills two rival scholarly framings of the Polanyian double movement - reformable cycle versus fundamental capitalist contradiction.
• XREF: connects to: Two rival readings of Polanyi’s double movement differ on reform versus revolution; Buddhist time is cyclical individuation while the West makes generalized linear History — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 285; Radical break and continuity claims both fail without a temporal-analytic definition of modernity — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 558 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Two rival readings of Polanyi’s double movement differ on reform versus revolution #expands (0.95)
• Radical break and continuity claims both fail without a temporal-analytic definition of modernity #qualifies (0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 558
• Buddhist time is cyclical individuation while the West makes generalized linear History #qualifies (0.70) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 285
• 1980 security-seeking demos underpins Polanyi’s counter-movement frame #exemplifies (0.70)