ABSTRACT
This chapter serves as a warning against the risk of human rights being subsumed into the ruinous mainstream, whatever revolutionary ambition they might once have promised. The concern is that now we fight to soften the worst tendencies of economic globalisation but do not try, or worse no longer notice, that the human rights project has in fact internalised the status quo of market primacy. The primacy of the market is so pervasive as a doctrine that the reasons why we adhere to its supremacy as a global community no longer even require justification; in important ways they are no longer even questioned. The risk to the human rights project is that by taking the gains that come from the explicit mapping of human rights onto the corporate agenda which refers to the critique of the post-2008 centre-left agenda as diluted neoliberalism.
