ABSTRACT
The separation of the political and the economic is one of the mechanisms through which democratic claims have been contained under capitalism. According to the doctrine of economic neutrality, economic issues and institutions are somehow apolitical, beyond political power struggles, and therefore not subject to democratic claims. With the constant, even if not always lineal, expansion of the social spaces defined as economic over the past decades, the possibilities of democratic politics have been increasingly restricted. If power is increasingly located in the economic sphere, such processes of democratization that only focus on the narrowly defined political sphere become increasingly ineffective.
