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'the neoliberal economization of the political not only divests the terms of liberal democratic justice of their capacity to contest or to limit the reach of market values and distributions into every quarter of life. economization inverts this capacity into it's opposite as it makes justice terms consecrate and confirm market values and distributions. again, this is not to suggest that the interval between economic and political life articulated by liberal democracy meant that this form of democracy was ever uncontaminated by capitalism. the point is simply that as long as it operated in a different lexical and semiotic register from capital, liberal democratic principles and expectations could be mobilized to limit capitalist productions of value and market distributions; they could be a platform for critiques of those values and distributions, and they could gestate more radical democratic aspirations. when this other register is lost, when market values become the only values, when liberal democracy is fully transformed into market democracy, what disappears is this capacity to limit, this platform to critique, and this source of radical democratic inspiration and aspiration.' - wendy brown
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