HIST 12B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frank Lloyd Wright, Liberal Democracy, Cointelpro
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Inequalities of the gilded age + darwinism + new deal liberalism. Postwar/cold war financial crises of the 1970s rise of financialization. Implications of liberalism for social democratic reforms after great depression, shrinking of social safety net, attack on social wage. Converted to effort to shrink the public sphere. Remove, or reassign, political agency of the citizen. Question: what has neoliberalism done with democracy, and where might we find it. Democratic/agonistic theorists: argue that contemporary liberal democracy lacks the particpatory spirt essential to democratic political life (see honig, brown, mouffe, wolin, Agonism: political theory that privileges positive, constructive aspects of political conflict, channeling the tendency for destructive conflict into productive energy, especially in democratic polities. Emphasizing government democracy is natural place of conflict. Ongoing political conflict to affirm the reality of perpetual contest, even within an ordered setting, and to identify the affirmative dimension of contestation (honig, 1993)
