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In politics, liberalism believes that the voter knows best. It therefore upholds democratic elections. In economics, liberalism maintains that the customer is always right. It therefore hails free-market principles. In personal matters, liberalism encourages people to listen to themselves, be true to themselves, and follow their hearts—as long as t

This corporate world generates a kind of digital utopianism (Turner 2006). Lanier argues how this reflects the general corporate takeover of much of the world, especially since the growth of neo-liberal discourse and practice from around 1980, first within the US and Britain and then throughout much of the world (Klein 2007).

Along with his partner and co-author Chantal Mouffe, he provided one of the earliest foundations for what would become identity politics. In their 1985 work Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

politische Polarisierung

A sophisticated political analysis needs now to be quadrilateral: not left versus right or liberal versus populist or libertarian versus authoritarian, but rather the axes of communitarian as opposed to individualist/collectivist and pluralist and corporatist as opposed to statist/capitalist.

. For those with faith in public policy, the city emerges as the main level for experimentation[287] in a world where the the state has shrunk from its role as a positive agent of change. That’s because most social innovations in history were first implemented at the local level, either by the authorities, by activists, or by individuals themselves

New Boss: Not Exactly The Same As The Old Boss The concept we’ve described here isn’t Marxism86, which doesn’t have the concept of groups shifting sides from left to right and vice versa.

The early twentieth-century philosopher of history Oswald Spengler captured this task when he described the ‘born’ leader as ‘above all a valuer – a valuer of men, situations, and things . . . [with the ability] to do the correct thing without “knowing” it’.[3]

start from the premise that power relationships are constitutive of society because those who have power construct the institutions of society according to their values and interests. Power is exercised by means of coercion (the monopoly of violence, legitimate or not, by the control of the state) and/or by the construction of meaning in people’s m