Legitimacy Archives - In Dark Times

Engaging in Nonviolent Struggle: Power & Politics, Part III

by Tedd Siegel August 26, 2018

We have entered a stage of political conflict in the US where the basic attitudes and institutional mechanisms that normally support resolution through compromise are now effectively superseded by the conditions of out and out political struggle.

by Tedd Siegel

Democratic Values

The Legitimation Wound: Thoughts on Crisis Tendencies of Advanced Capitalism

by Tedd Siegel December 16, 2017

The advanced capitalist legitimation crisis turns out to be the lack of a legitimation crisis we ought to be having.

by Tedd Siegel

Democratic Values

Thinking About Political Legitimation (with both Realism & Idealism)

by Tedd Siegel November 26, 2017

Realism demands that a crisis of democratic legitimacy as such has to be thinkable. Idealism demands that belief in legitimacy can and must be justified.

by Tedd Siegel