Open AccessKapitalistische Macht und neoliberales Regieren
Author(s) -
Urs Marti
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
prokla
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2700-0311
pISSN - 0342-8176
DOI - 10.32387/prokla.v38i151.475
Subject(s) - governmentality , competition (biology) , order (exchange) , power (physics) , action (physics) , politics , sociology , political science , economics , law and economics , positive economics , epistemology , law , philosophy , ecology , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , biology
Neoliberal political projects strive to discipline people according to principles of market and competition. "Governementality- studies" have contributed to a better understanding of strategies used in order to transform human beings into market actors or human capitalists. However, Foucault's idea of governmentality is problematic insofar as it is based on a too narrow conception of power and freedom. Relations of power in capitalist societies cannot be analysed without taking into account the uneven distribution of power resources - mainly of economic means - and Its negative effects on the freedom of action making possible the subjection of people to the rules of competition.