Abstract
Jurgen Habermas in Legitimation Crisis (1975) argued
that advanced capitalism comes with complex contradictions that are not easily
solved. As global monopoly capital becomes the predominant economic
arrangement, state intervention is needed to provide steering for the economy
to deliver growth and stability. Politically, states must inspire confidence
and mass loyalty to the system, the entire political system. Political
participation is limited, as corporate interests truncate real democracy. When
belief lags in existing institutions to provide a viable life in the system, a
crisis of legitimation ensues as people begin to withdraw their support for the
system, typically by the public’s refusal to purchase goods or agreeably
(peacefully) protest the status quo. As a direct threat to the economy, the
refusal to buy products threatens to wreck the entire system centered on the
economy.
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