Along the British Road to Oligarchy: Deaths of Dispair and Moments of Danger

Thierry Madjid Labica

A chapter in Trajectories of Declining and Destructive Capitalism, 2025, vol. 40, pp 81-97 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This chapter begins with a brief discussion of the political alignments and trends that have defined the historical sequence inaugurated in the late 1970s. Next, it provides an overview of the resulting social polarization, between endemic forms of social insecurity and consolidation of oligarchic class power. These initial descriptions aim to offer a general picture of the type of social domination which capitalist politics have been struggling to generate, reproduce, and further entrench: what particular patterns of power relations capitalist politics have been trying to sustain? By what means? And in response to which particular moments of danger has capitalist resistance from above been strategized?

Keywords: United Kingdom; Thatcherism; capitalism; neoliberalism; Labour Party; trade-unions; strikes; Brexit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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