Tag Archives: capitalism

Neither Market Nor State?

Posted on July 19, 2019 by

“And what if the choice had never been between Market and State organizations, between liberals and socialists, but instead between those who believe in the miracles of a pre-established harmony and those who refuse to ‘believe in miracles’? Could we … Continue reading →

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Gramsci on the State, the Proprietorial Class, and the Sovereign Laws of Capitalism

Posted on May 22, 2018 by

“In the sphere of general capitalist activity, even the worker operates on the plane of free competition, is a citizen-individual. But the starting conditions of the struggle are not equal for all, at the same time: the existence of private … Continue reading →

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Social Media, Authoritarian Capitalism, and Donald Trump

Posted on February 15, 2018 by

by Christian Fuchs* In the years from 1986 until 1999, the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party Jörg Haider with the help of anti-immigration slogans, politics as entertainment, a juvenile and dynamic habitus, as well as ridicule of opponents led his … Continue reading →

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The Pricing of Progress and the Origins of GDP

Posted on November 18, 2017 by

by Eli Cook* In the past few years, roughly half a dozen books have come out examining the meteoric rise and profound impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). An economic indicator that measures the money-making capacities of a nation by … Continue reading →

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Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States

Posted on September 12, 2017 by

by Andrew Kolin* The task at hand is to place the political economy of repression within the contours of U.S. history and sketch in broad terms how, over time, repression is the product of dynamic and fixed relations between capital and … Continue reading →

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Pierre Bourdieu: Economism is a form of ethnocentrism

Posted on July 19, 2017 by

Economic Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu is very rich and brilliantly enlightening, as well as non-univocal, and theoretically and intellectually multifaceted. Reflecting on his great contribution to the field, which he preferred to call “Economic Anthropology”, his classic The Logic of Practice (1990; open … Continue reading →

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Fictionalizing the Economy and Reviewing Imagined Futures of Capitalism

Posted on February 24, 2017 by

by Lars Crusefalk* In the book Imagined Futures – Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics, a leading economic sociologist Jens Beckert argues that social scientists need to put more emphasis on how actors in modern capitalistic societies handle uncertainty in relation to … Continue reading →

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The Closing of the Mind

Posted on November 20, 2016 by

“What is advertised as a great opening is a great closing.” Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (1987), p. 34 “Landscape with Figures” by George Tooker (1992) *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community through Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Reddit / Tumblr

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Growth Fetish

Posted on August 22, 2016 by

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”   (The Tower of Babel … Continue reading →

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Back to the Future: Authoritarian Neoliberal Regime versus Democratic Social State

Posted on July 27, 2016 by

The destiny of the 20th century, especially after the WWII, has been determined and shaped by the multifaceted confrontation between capitalism and ‘communism’, the ‘West’ vis-a-vis the ‘East’. But history did not end in 1991, as some have tried to convince … Continue reading →

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The darkness of corporate enlightenment

Posted on July 22, 2016 by

James Doolin, “Study for Corporate Rise“, 1986 (oil on canvas) *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community through Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Instagram / Reddit / Tumblr

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Genealogy of Capitalism and Sacred Economics in Victorian Britain

Posted on June 20, 2016 by

“Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-­given Force, the sacred celestial Life-­essence breathed into him by Almighty God…”                                                      … Continue reading →

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Erich Fromm: Man is a cog in the vast economic machine

Posted on March 17, 2016 by

Erich Fromm: “In capitalism economic activity, success, material gains, become ends in themselves. It becomes man’s fate to contribute to the growth of the economic system, to amass capital, not for purposes of his own happiness or salvation, but as … Continue reading →

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Capitalism precedes Existence

Posted on November 28, 2015 by

Capitalism precedes Existence. I pay before I am. How would you title this picture of reality? *** Join the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community through Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / Google+ / Reddit / Tumblr

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Capital as power and class struggle explained by… Adam Smith?!

Posted on October 10, 2015 by

In any given society, there is no freedom of contract between capitalist and worker, whose interests are essentially opposite. The power of a landlord, a manufacturer, a merchant resides in his wealth, explaining the inherent subjection of laborers, which lack almost any … Continue reading →

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