Politics without classes and corporations, political science without political economy
Politics without classes and corporations, political science without political economy

The science of the political or politics?

Summary/Abstract: The article shows the weakness of mainstream Polish political science. Its main weakness,according to the author, is omitting the industrial and corporate power conflict among the factorsdetermining the contemporary politics. As a result, the relations between political science andpolitical economy have become weak. Its place as a source of inspiration for political scientists hasbeen taken by social philosophy. It seeks the various non-economic sources of politics. Thepostulated critical political science puts in the spotlight the main processes of the global capitalisteconomy located in a phase of stagnation and closing in on the natural limits of its duration. Inparticular, closer attention should be focused on tracking a new, already the fifth configuration ofthe market society. It will be the several partial processes weave; the recovery process of autonomyby the state to corporations and the financial sector (deglobalisation); the process of recoveringcontrol of the state by the old and new social movements (democracy participatory), and the processof transformation of the energy economy, coupled with the process of changing lifestyles: fromconsumerism to paideia as a human community responsive to

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