![]() ![]() ![]() Capitalism, in the form of neoliberal reason, defeated democracy. Capitalism did not just defeat communism. Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution dismantles the fantasy formatting this vision of liberal democratic triumph. There was no alternative to liberal democracy, capitalism’s political form. Contrary to what had appeared in the class compromise following WWII as social democracy’s merging of liberalism and communism, history ended with the defeat of socialism and the “unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism.” Communism was swept into history’s dustbin. ![]() The great ideological struggles characteristic not only of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but of history as such had come to an end. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the end of history. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. ![]()
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