Kapitalizm przeciwko demokracji
Capitalism against democracy

Author(s): Andrzej Szahaj
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: capitalism; democracy; corporations; liberalism; neoliberalism; utopia; populism; state; surveillance; media
Summary/Abstract: The main goal of the text is to consider the relationship between today’s capitalism and democracy. The author indicates the increasingly deeper process of erosion of democracy due to acting free market forces, especially the vast internet corporations. In this context, he identifies technocratic-libertarian utopia (power of technocrats in the economic milieu free from state influences) – typical for the convictions of their owners – as very dangerous for the future of democracy. He also investigates the destructive impact of neoliberal ideology on the different state leaders who, despite political origins, have implemented the same kind of economic decisions giving the reason for a widespread conviction that democratic choices are not in a position to change the actual situation of citizens. In his opinion, one of the elements of this ideology is that democracy is a good thing as long as it does not threaten disorganised capitalism in Milton Freidman’s style. He undermines the broadly represented conviction that there is a natural alliance between capitalism and democracy.

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