Why Is Democracy So Hard? University of California, Berkeley Memorial Lecture for Erik Olin Wright, January 2020
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2317461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy Brown (0000-0002-5309-3381, University of California System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 539-552 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032329220962655 |
| OpenAlex | W3100086329 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This lecture reflects on the difficulties of democracy in Erik Olin Wright's democratic socialist vision, one he elaborates in How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century and Envisioning Real Utopias. It rejects the notion that radical democratic projects in cities, workplaces, and cooperatives can simply be scaled up for purposes of national or postnational political rule. It reflects on selected requirements of democracy apart from democratic governing institutions and practices: from democratic political culture, to education and accountability, to handling globalized powers and problems such as finance, capital, and the climate crisis. The lecture concludes ambivalently, suggesting that democracy may be both necessary and impossible in realizing a politically free, socially just, and ecologically sustainable future
Accountability · Art history · Capital (architecture · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wright · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |