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This article addresses the question of whether the social impacts, especially increased socioeconomic inequality, and formalization of democracy generated by the neoliberal economization of politics is an important albeit not singular driver of resurgent ethnocracial populism and illiberal democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay discusses consumer capitalism. Topics of the essay include consumption, production in economics and labor costs. Other topics such as globalization, socialist George Ritzer and marginalism in economics are also discussed. Bureaucracy, furniture company IKEA and productivist bias are mentioned.

The article presents an overview of the political culture and history of the United States from the 1970s to the present, highlighting the emergence of neoliberalism, the politicization of anti-environmentalism, and the political polarization between the Republican and Democratic parties in the past 40 years. The author suggests all these issues stem from fundamental debates over a conservative or liberal view of capitalist market economics. The author also warns of the dangers of conflating environmentalism and partisan politics.

This paper describes the nature of critical theory, its historical development, its connections to sociology and Marxism, and the central debates over its core ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]