Neoliberalism against democracy: the Greek case
Liberal democracy cannot be submitted to neoliberal political governmentality and survive. There is nothing in liberal democracy’s basic institutions or values—from free elections, representative democracy, and individual liberties equally distributed to modest power-sharing or even more substantive political participation—that inherently meets the test of serving economic competitiveness or inherently withstands a cost-benefit analysis.
Wendy Brown, Neoliberalism and the end of liberal democracy, Edgework: critical essays on knowledge and politics, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005, p. 46
The first experiment with neoliberal state formation, it is worth recalling, occurred in Chile after Pinochet's coup [...] against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
David Harvey, A brief history of neoliberalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 7
The erosion of democracy is a direct product of neoliberalism where it is hegemonic, and it contaminates the alternatives currently in existence. [...] [S]truggles against neoliberalism can be supported by mobilizations around democracy. In turn, success depends on the extent to which these democratic movements become anti-capitalist. The expansion of democracy operates, then, as a synthesis of many determinations in the mobilization against neoliberalism.
Alison J. Ayers and Alfredo Saad-Filho, Democracy against neoliberalism: paradoxes, limitations, transcendence, Critical Sociology, 2014, pp. 16-17
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