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Thus this move toward separating work from compensation could be a radically progressive one, were it coupled with a call for a new definition of rights in terms of human needs. Rather than a “right to work,” one would speak of a right to all the basic necessities of life: food and shelter, healthcare and retirement benefits, access to education, a

Assuming Weber’s central insight to have been correct, then in the face of the dramatic transformation in the forms of contemporary capitalism, some new ethos ought to be unfolding right before our eyes.

In 1917, the sociologist Max Weber argued that “the fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world

Yet equity is a word with two interlinked meanings: the right to share in a stream of profits, and the right to participate in decisions that affect your outcomes.

realistic interest theories, which place emphasis on shared material interests and conflict over tangible resources

To grasp the relation between the realm of freedom and the realm of necessity, the distinction between practical identities and mere social roles is crucial. The realm of freedom is defined by our practical identities—and their internal relations of priority in the form of our respective existential identities—which are expressed by the activities

The cultural critic Andrew Ross points out that this new model of artists/ workers—unlike Marx’s “industrial reserve army” of the unemployed, always available to keep the cost of labor low—creates a reserve volunteer army of people who will work for fun.56 Here, Ross asserts, we have not just a low-wage reserve industrial labor force, but a no-wage

Weil called for the abolition of all political parties. She argued that parties, regardless of their ideological coloration, share three basic traits. They are dedicated to nurturing collective passions, designed to exercise collective pressure upon the minds of their members, and devoted to their collective self-preservation.

Redistributive effects and increasing social inequality have in fact been such a persistent feature of neoliberalization as to be regarded as structural to the whole project. Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, after careful reconstruction of the data, have concluded that neoliberalization was from the very beginning a project to achieve the restora