Mouvements sociaux et élections: questionner l'absence d'un "double mouvement" polanyien

Abstract

How to explain the absence of a countermovement, in Polanyi's terms, following the financial and economic crisis of 2008? This article proposes an explanation starting from the historical decoupling between political parties and social movements, and examines some hypotheses on the reasons for this discrepancy. While the "double movement" theorized by Polanyi implied a convergence between social movements and political parties to control the institutions that were going to frame the market, this convergence is made difficult today by virtue of the conditions for intellectual autonomy within protest movements.