Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia. Issue 4 (2nd October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dakwar, Azar; Ingram, David B.; Callison, William; Maoz, Eilat; Azmanova, Albena
• Is Part Of: Critical horizons. Volume 23:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 373
• Page End: 402
• Publication Date: 2022-10-02
• Subjects: Precarity -- democratic capitalism -- competitive production of profit -- paradox of emancipation -- legitimacy -- imperialism; Critical theory -- Periodicals; 142.05
• DOI: 10.1080/14409917.2022.2104083
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1440-9917

Abstract

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.