Part of the CSD Spring 2021 Seminar Series
Albena Azmanova (University of Kent) will be presenting the paper ‘Thinking capitalism in the 21st century: the tasks of radical critique’
In her new book Capitalism on Edge, Albena Azmanova observes that, while we have been discussing the crisis of capitalism in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown, neoliberal capitalism has mutated into a new form marked by the massification of insecurity. Precarity, rather than inequality, is what ails the 99 per cent, she claims. This alters the political diagnosis (populism is not populism), raises the stakes for progressive politics (fighting inequality is beside the point) and changes the rules of the game for radical critique (we can think systemic change without crisis, revolution, or utopia).
The seminar will take place online. Register for this event on Eventbrite.
The Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) is based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster. The centre undertakes research across a range of critical social and political challenges, promoting an interdisciplinary environment that embraces colleagues from politics, international relations, sociology and criminology.
