Economic Globalism and Political Universalism

Conflicting Issues

Bibliographic Data

ID12433280
AuthorsSamir Amin (0000-0002-6322-7208, World Economic Forum, corresponding author)
Year2000
Pages582-622
Publication date2000-11-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of World-Systems Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1076-156X • E-ISSN: 1076-156X
PublisherUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5195/jwsr.2000.200
OpenAlexW2287682405
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited1

In the prevailing discourse, market and democracy are credited with such a strong unity it almost appears impossible to separate the two. The market is considered a manifest condition of democracy, the latter inexorably bound up with the former. Neither the concepts nor the realities of what is or what could be the market and democracy are questioned in this discourse. In the same manner, globalisation and universalism are conceived in the discourse as being practically synonymous. The Global Village constitutes one of the fashionable catch-phrases which, though bereft of meaning, bear witness to this confusion. In this contribution, I will expatiate on the thesis that each of these dichotomies (market/democracy and globalisation/universalism) is more contradictory than complementary. The association of these two sets of issues, de?ned by an economic globalisation based on the market and a democratic political universalism, is as a result, utter nonsense which forces us to rethink the market, democracy and universalism within the perspective of a far-from-?nal history

Democracy · Epistemology · Globalism · Globalization · Meaning (existential · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Universalism · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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