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Highlights
Rather than discussing the endless stream of literature referring to Polanyi one after the other, I set the discussion on the most interesting and politically relevant topics that can be found in almost every publication
Dale sums up, Polanyi “failed to take stock of the fact that a system based on commodified labor power requires a supportive framework of non-commodified institutions, and that capitalism is capable of accommodating trade unionism, welfare measures, state intervention, and public ownership” (285)
Dale himself comes to the conclusion that the soft Polanyi might have the bigger fan-base while the hard Polanyi-supporters would better with the ‘lyrics’: He doubts that Polanyi would have believed that the market should stay “the dominant mechanism” and that Polanyi would not have thought that the “pendular swing” would come automatically, as some kind of natural reflex of society against the market’s assaults (6)
Summary
While Brie and Fraser are asking the question how a countermovement to neoliberal capitalism might look like, Michael Burawoy’s contribution to the debate is characterized under the heading of two concepts – Sociological Marxism and Public Sociology Both approaches are results of his critique of Polanyi as well as they are committed to Polanyi’s political ambitions. Sociological Marxism, the variety of Marxism which Burawoy favors, is described as “based on an expanding and self-regulating civil society” while its predecessors would have been “the projection of an economic utopia” (classical Marxism), or “based on state regulation” (Soviet Marxism, Third World Marxism and Western Marxism) (37) In his attempt to keep Marxism up to date, Burawoy breaks with the “Marxist claim that production provides the foundation of opposition to capitalism.”. When Dale (2016b, 35) claims that Burawoy’s research program would be “essentially Polanyian”, the same can be said about the political agenda of his sociological Marxism
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