Political Limit of Neoliberal Democracy: The Strategy of Inequality

• Authors: Zhurbina Irina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper studies political consequences of the establishment of neoliberal democracy, which means the onset of a post-political state of the world. It is demonstrated that at the “end of politics,” the democratic principle of equal rights turns into its opposite— a radical inequality between transnational elites, personifying the power of “pure” capital, and the local population, representing the idea of “pure” life. Neoliberal democracy is studied as a limit concept, which shows the exhaustion of the democratic principle of equality. The paper shows that the return to democracy as the principle of equality becomes the driving ambition of modern politics of activism as a subjective process, unfolding in places where a situation of radical inequality arises.

Keywords

EN

neoliberalism; post-politics; inequality; militant; activist; “democracy in daily life”; politics of activism

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 79-94

Contributors

author

Zhurbina Irina

• Department of History, Theory and Practice of Social Communications, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia.