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These elites believe and promote the idea that social change should be pursued principally through the free market and voluntary action, not public life and the law and the reform of the systems that people share in common; that it should be supervised by the winners of capitalism and their allies, and not be antagonistic to their needs; and that the biggest beneficiaries of the status quo should play a leading role in the status quo’s reform.
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
The reason why Marx finds it important to underline the social nature of things such as value and slavery is, of course, that he wants to stress that they are not necessary – that is, that they fall within the domain of what can actually be changed by human beings. This is __the core of the distinction between the natural and the social on which Marx’s denaturalising critique of social forms rests: the social is that which can be changed by humans, and the natural is that which is necessary from the point of view of human society.__
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
What shape was the solution to the ‘crisis of governability of democracy’ going to assume? Among the options available were what Samuelson called the ‘devil’s fix’:2 dictatorial power versus democratic surge; in order to depoliticize society, it was necessary to militarize politics.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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