Karl Polanyi and discussions on a renewed socialism

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ID13124153
AuthorsMichael Brie (0000-0001-8903-5055, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume4
Issue1
Pages116-134
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Practice & Europeanization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2566-7742 • E-ISSN: 2566-7742
PublisherNomos (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.5771/2566-7742-2019-1-116
OpenAlexW3216063058
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

The paper reconstructs Karl Polanyi's search process for a socialist answer to the crisis of capitalist civilization in the first half of the 20th century. Polanyi focused on the question of how the conditions for responsible freedom can be realized under the conditions of a complex society. For Polanyi, this only seemed possible if a new Great Transformation of society were to take place, leaving the capitalist market society behind. Polanyi concentrated on three paths: (1) the diminishing of the commodity character of natural resources, labor and money; (2) the comprehensive democratization of economic decisions on the basis of deglobalization and intraregional cooperation; and (3) the institutional safeguarding of individual freedom at the expense of economic efficiency

Communism · Economics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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