Social democrats assume correcting the ideal model can realize it

Evidence

So it is very much a cultural question (in the contemporary sense of the word), turning on the problem of representation itself: the Proudhonists are realists, we might say, of the correspondence model variety. They think (along with the Habermassians today, perhaps) that the revolutionary ideals of the bourgeois system — freedom and equality — are properties of real societies, and they note that, while still present in the Utopian ideal image or portrait of bourgeois market society, these same features are absent and woefully lacking when we turn to the reality which sat as the model for that ideal portrait. It will then be enough to change and improve the model and make freedom and equality finally appear, for real, in flesh and blood, in the market system. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 574

Categorization

• XREF: The correspondence-model realism of the Proudhonists/Habermassians parallels the parody-versus-pastiche distinction: both are about the relation of representation to what they purportedly copy. — connects to: Deliberative democrats ground legitimacy in rational consensus produced by ideal discourse procedures — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 219; Democratic politics should mobilize passions, not eliminate them for rational consensus — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 462; Liberal democratic values are ambiguous and can legitimize domination — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 114 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Deliberative democrats ground legitimacy in rational consensus produced by ideal discourse procedures — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 219; Democratic politics should mobilize passions, not eliminate them for rational consensus — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 462; Liberal democratic values are ambiguous and can legitimize domination — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 114 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Democratic politics should mobilize passions, not eliminate them for rational consensus #complicates (0.78) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 462
• Liberal democratic values can themselves cultivate routine exclusion of perceived failures #complicates (0.72) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 105