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Editorial: Gesellschaftstheorie III: Kontroversen
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Demokratische Querfronten? Der neue Rechtspopulismus und die Ambivalenzen der direkten Demokratie
Get PDFStarting point of the article is a right-wing populist campaign against the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in Germany, which lead to the foundation of the party „Alternative für Deutschland“ (AfD). Initially the actors of this campaign, their general criticism of the EU, their narrative about the economic crises and their social basis are analysed. But the right-wing populists were also part of a broader coalition in civil society, which called for direct democracy in general and a referendum on the ESM in particular. Therefore the second part of the article analyses the underlying concept of democracy and shows why neoliberals and national-conservatives opt more and more for direct democracy. These issues point to ambivalences of direct democracy, which should not be overlooked by leftists
„Kämpfe“ um die legal person: Wie Unternehmen von ihrem Personencharakter profitieren
Get PDFThe article discusses how corporations in the U.S., mostly economic, have managed over the last 200 years to claim human rights elaborated in the U.S. Constitution for themselves (e. g. the right due process of law, or free political speech). A multitude of court rulings offer a wealth of empirical material. In the United States an evergrowing critical movement has attempted to criticize and scandalize such corporate rights. An analysis derived from sociology and Political Economy can show that gaining such corporate rights, can be referred to as an increasing privatization of political power and as a historical institutionalization of the - nowadays globally applicable - corporate form
Familien-Ideale: Regulierungen einer privaten Lebensform
Get PDF"Vor einiger Zeit traf ich auf dem Spielplatz eine Mutter von drei Kindern, die den gleichen Kindergarten besuchen, wie meine beiden Kinder. Sie sah angestrengt und mürrisch aus. Eine Erklärung lag für mich auf der Hand, hatte ich am Tag zuvor doch ihren Mann mit einem eingegipsten Fuß gesehen. „Oh, du Arme. Jetzt musst du sicherlich alles alleine machen mit den Kindern“, sagte ich anteilnehmend. Doch in finsterem Ton erwiderte sie: „Wir müssen doch immer alles alleine machen.“ Für den Bruchteil einer Sekunde war mir nicht klar, wen sie mit dem kollektivierenden ‘wir’ meinte. Sprachlos stand ich vor ihr. Da ihre Aufmerksamkeit schon wieder von ihren Kindern absorbiert wurde, endete unser Austausch abrupt. Für uns beide ist klar, was ich mit „alles alleine machen“ meine: die Arbeit in der Familie....
Die Finanzialisierungslücke der Varieties of Capitalism
Get PDFWhile the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) approach is strong on pointing out the complementarities among national modes of accumulation, it falls short on capturing the dynamics of finance. From a regulationist perspective, its simple dichotomy of bank based versus market based finance overlooks functional equivalences and thus overemphasizes differences. The market based systems are misrepresented; in reality they do not conform to the ideals of transparency and dispersed shareholding. According to VoC, financialization emanates from the liberal market economies. However, the export successes of the coordinated market economies brought about financialization in the market systems by eliminating some of their industries. Most importantly, the VoC focus on firms treats finance as a service to companiesand not as a profit driven sector on its own
Regimedominierte Zahlenakkumulation: vom Umgang mit ökonomischen Kategorien und ihren Größen
Get PDFAnlass für diese Replik war der Beschluss des Arbeitskreises „Theorie“ des Nürnberger Sozialforums im Juni 2012, sich Hintergründe der aktuellen Krise in Europa zu erarbeiten. Anstatt aber nur Beiträge aus z.B. dem Attac-Rundbrief „Sand im Getriebe“ heranzuziehen, wählte man vom Anspruchvollsten aus, was der wissenschaftliche Diskurs hierzulande zu bieten hat: den Artikel „Finanzdominierte Akkumulation und die Krise in Europa“ (Demirovi?/Sablowski 2012), der zeitlich gerade passend in der PROKLA erschienen war. Wir waren uns mit den Autoren einig, dass die gegenwärtige Krisen-Konstellation nur ausgehend von dem Verständnis der strukturellen polit-ökonomischen Zusammenhänge zu begreifen ist. Es ging also zunächst darum – hierin ganz den Autoren folgend – das „finanzdominierte Akkumulationsregime“ (ebd.: 78) zu verstehen. Und auf diesen – allerdings titelgebenden – Punkt soll auch die folgende Replik beschränkt sein
Editorial: Demokratie und Herrschaft, Parlamentarismus und Parteien
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Multiple Krise, autoritäre Demokratie und radikaldemokratische Erneuerung
Get PDFThe article sketches out three arguments: a) The financial crisis that dominates the economic and political processes since 2008 transforms the transnationalized network state into a new form of the exceptional state. Arguing against those who describe the actual conjuncture as authoritarian statism, Demirovi? argues that the new is a governmentalized austerity state. b) Since long critical state theory argues that democracy is in a crisis. But the process is not one of a constant decline but rather a cycle; and the cycle is determined by the compromises between social classes. c) In the recent crisis of democracy not only new actors appeared fighting for real democracy but also the theories of radical democracy became radicalized. This is demonstrated in the discussion of the approaches of Jürgen Habermas and Chantal Mouffe. The theory of democracy overcomes the liberal distinction of economy and politics and tends to democratize social complexity in itself
Offene Grenzen? Migrationsregime und die Schwierigkeiten einer Kritik des Nationalismus
Get PDFNation-state based migration regimes have often fatal consequences. Their justification presupposes the superiority of nationally designed interests in relation to the needs and the human rights of migrants. As a result the legitimization of migration regimes is called into question, and open borders are reclaimed. In this paper positions are discussed which nevertheless try to justify the necessity of nation states and their migration regimes. Against this background it is argued that it is required to develop a critical perspective which avoids the apparent alternative, open borders or justification of existing migration regimes
Woher der Wind weht in Westafrika
Get PDFIf social movements in West Africa are really on a rise one may use the categories of regulation theory to understand some of the backgrounds of this rise. The relatively stable formation that came into being in the 1990s with the African version of the neoliberal state at its center is coming to its end. It was able to integrate and tame social movements in its regulatory institutions. However, the rise of movements such as those against the high prices of basic necessities and those of peasants against landgrabbing and for a re-appropriation of family based agriculture are indicators of its disintegration