Clara Mattei explains that we are required to live within a kind of social order to function as a society - but this 'capital order' might not be the best option for us. Perhaps it's not necessarily natural to be subordinate to an employer at all times.
Austerity is more than just a policy: it is mutually reinforced by sturdy economic theory which justifies these policies as the most efficient and rational options. This theory centres the worker as central to the economic machine, thus perpetuating the employer/employee structure.
Mattei argues that austerity is simply the means by which you can secure the stability of this capital order, shutting down the public's political imaginatation to 'alternatives to capitalism'. She lays out a few examples throughout history where this capital order has been questioned.
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara Mattei: uk.bookshop.org/a/11279/97802...
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15 ноя 2022
