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CASE REPORT
The citizens and the consumers. Free market, democracy and the civic
society in the era of turbocapitalism
Jan Sowa
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Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie
Publication date: 2020-06-05
Problemy Polityki Społecznej 2007;10:89-107
ABSTRACT
The article aims to verify the popular thesis that capitalism inevitably leads to the democratic
system. In author’s opinion such an assumption is a part of the threatening postpolitical
ideology. According to postpolitical ideology the decisions on the most important social
problems shouldn’t be a political issue, but the concern of experts and managers acting in the
name of a capitalist-liberal consensus. However, stresses the author, in the first part of the
article, during two last centuries the cornerstones of democracy – that is: civic rights, gender
equality, education for all, equal chances in the public sphere – weren’t a “gift” of the capitalist
system but an effect of emancipatory efforts of different social groups. It is not the market
but the public policy who is responsible for achieving the public welfare. In the second part
of the article discusses the neoliberal ideology threats to democracy, that is: the apotheosis of
consumption and the depreciation of the idea of the common good.
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