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    Radical democracy requires rejecting Western liberal demo... — Carmelics
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    Radical democracy requires rejecting Western liberal democratic institutions such as parliaments and constitutions.

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    • 1.Western liberal democratic institutions rely on individualism and capitalism.
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    • 2.Radical democracy entails opposition to the subservience of politics to capitalism.
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    • 3.Institutions grounded in individualism and capitalism cannot serve as the foundation for radical democracy.
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    • 1.Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau's radical democracy explicitly appropriates liberal democratic institutions as sites of hegemonic contestation, not rejection.
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    • 2.Mouffe argues constitutions and parliaments can be radicalized by rearticulting their founding principles around agonistic pluralism rather than liberal consensus.
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    • 3.The conflation of liberal democratic *forms* with liberal democratic *content* commits a category error that radical democratic theorists themselves warn against.
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    • 1.Historical radical democratic movements, from Chartism to the Civil Rights Movement, advanced their transformative claims *through* constitutional language, not against it.
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    • 2.Frank Michelman and Jürgen Habermas demonstrate that constitutional self-governance contains internal democratic resources that exceed and can challenge capitalist presuppositions.
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    • 3.Rejecting institutions wholesale forfeits existing legal protections disproportionately relied upon by marginalized groups, undermining radical democracy's own egalitarian commitments.
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    The institutional design of radical democracy is, almost by definition, underspecified. Proponents argue against the existing global system in which sovereignty has been eclipsed by empire: the subservience of politics to capitalism. It is therefore up to collectives to overhaul current arrangements and establish new forms of governance, the design of which can only emerge through the process of reconstruction itself. Both Chantal Mouffe (2009) and Jan Aart Scholte (2014) are clear that radical
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