Subordinating politics to markets failed to produce either freedom or equality

Evidence

The rise of right-wing, racist movements and parties, including those that aim to entrench rather than ameliorate the inequalities of the neoliberal period, suggests that the project of subordinating politics to human rights norms and transferring governance to international financial bodies has failed to create more inclusive and equal polities. The insistence that freedom requires submission to the market, and the acceptance of the inequalities it produces, has led neither to equality nor to freedom. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 457

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the empirical failure of human-rights-as-market-governance as evidenced by the rise of the right — connecting rights discourse to right-wing electoral resurgence.
• XREF: Echoes the reader’s core thesis that markets and human-rights discourse intertwine; relates to Jessop’s and Brown’s work on the subordination of politics to economics. — connects to: Both neoclassical and Marxian economics have proven poor antidotes to the free-market muddle — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 48; The Allende government displaced market allocation to remedy material inequalities — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 317; The meritocratic promise of market society disguised its classist foundations. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1571 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Market ideology functions to repress freedom rather than secure it #corroborates (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 600
• Neoliberal freedom is recoded as negative liberty to protect market supremacy #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2130
• Neoliberalism redefined liberty as economic rather than political. #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 380
• Marx saw market freedom and equality as real yet turning into their opposites #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 572