Neoliberalism Facing Its Subjects: A Metastructural Approach

Abstract This paper deals with modern history and the contemporary subject. Marx's theory of modern society must be corrected and completed. The dominant class includes two social forces: the capitalists on the market and the 'competent' in the organisation, facing the fundamental or...

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Published inHistorical materialism : research in critical Marxist theory Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 127 - 143
Main Author Bidet, Jacques
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Leiden | Boston Brill 01.12.2019
Brill Academic Publishers, Inc
Subjects
Commodification
Hegemony
Modern society
Neoliberalism
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Summary:Abstract This paper deals with modern history and the contemporary subject. Marx's theory of modern society must be corrected and completed. The dominant class includes two social forces: the capitalists on the market and the 'competent' in the organisation, facing the fundamental or popular class. A 'régime of hegemony' is a mode of arrangement between these three forces. Under neoliberalism, when a World-State is emerging, the capitalists occupy an overwhelming position. The 'neoliberal subject' can be described as subjected to a universal commodification. But a realistic understanding supposes to confront this subject with the contradictory plurality of this régime of hegemony. The subject is 'interpellated' (see Althusser) from all sides of this social triangle, across all the scales of social life. Only in this local and universal context can the potential of the ordinary human being appear.
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ISSN:1465-4466
1569-206X
1465-4466
DOI:10.1163/1569206X-12341557