From "Carbon Democracy" by Timothy Mitchell: > The term ‘democracy’ can have two kinds of meaning. It can refer to ways > of making effective claims for a more just and egalitarian common world. > Or* *it can refer to a mode of governing populations that employs popular > consent as a means of limiting claims for greater equality and justice by > dividing up the common world.. Such limits are formed by acknowledging > certain areas as matters of public concern subject to popular decision > while establishing other fields to he administered under alternative > methods of control. For example, governmental practice can demarcate a > private sphere governed by rules of property, a natural world governed by > laws of nature, or markets governed by principles of economics. Democratic > struggles become a battle over the distribution of issues, attempting to > establish as matters of public concern questions that others claim as > private (such as the level of wages paid by employers), as belonging to > nature (such as the exhaustion of natural resources or the composition of > gases in the atmosphere), or as ruled by laws of the market (such as > financial speculation). In the rnid4wentleth century, this logic of > distribution’ began to designate a large new field of government whose > rules set limits to alternative political claims: the field that became > known as* *the economy. >
-- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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