THE CONCEALED „GOSPEL OF GREED“?: ECONOMY AND ITS RADICAL CRITICISM
Keywords:
economy, market, injustice, capital, religion, greedAbstract
The paper looks at two types of criticism of the economy, both as an emerging discipline, as well as an established and guiding principle of modern capitalism built on the prototypical greedy homo economicus. These two types of criticism could be defined as left and right, or scientific and religious critiques. However, they often merge into one view that insists on values that override the singular value of a self-defying free market, and the injustice that is imposed by that same market and which in turn serves as the organizational principle of the entire society. In its “conservative” or “progressive” variations, such cardinal criticism sometimes stems from bringing into question the dominance of economy over the entire society and moving away from the supremacy of those principles that, under the veil of benign self-interest, celebrate avaracious acquisition. Sometimes, such criticism could also emerge from “alternative” visions that similarly dismiss the „logic of capital“. It can be concluded that, in any case, such problematization is of great value and that, after all, it is practiced by the economy itself – though in a seemingly paradoxical manner – as a responsible science that can only be affirmed through bringing into question its founding principles.
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