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Review Symposium | Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

Dakwar, Azar, Ingram, David, Callison, William, Maoz, Eilat, Azmanova, Albena (2022) Review Symposium | Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia. Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy & Social Theory, . pp. 1-30. ISSN 1440-9917. (doi:10.1080/14409917.2022.2104083) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:96683)

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Abstract

Capitalism on Edge aims to redraw the terms of analysis of the so-called democratic capitalism and sketches a political agenda for emancipating society of its grip. This symposium reflects critically on Azmanova’s book and challenges her arguments on methodological, thematic, and substantive grounds. Azar Dakwar introduces the book’s claims and wonders about the nature of the anti-capitalistic agency Azmanova’s ascribes to the precariat. David Ingram worries about Azmanova’s deposing of “economic democracy” and the impact of which on the prospect of radical change she advocates. William Callison casts doubt over the empirical plausibility of Azmanova’s vision of crisis-free transition out of democratic capitalism. Eilat Maoz interrogates Azmanova’s emancipatory project from the historical standpoint of (de)colonization and global imperialism. In her reply to these criticisms, Azmanova accepts some and parries others, while bringing their points closer to her anti-capitalist vision.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1080/14409917.2022.2104083
Uncontrolled keywords: Precarity; democratic capitalism; competitive production of profit; paradox of emancipation; legitimacy; imperialism
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Depositing User: Azar Dakwar
Date Deposited: 31 Aug 2022 10:48 UTC
Last Modified: 01 Sep 2022 14:18 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/96683 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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