Its emancipatory potential rested on the four main foundations explored above: the abolition of the fetish of “economic necessity”; the centrality of workers’ agency (theoretical, economic, and political); the connection between theory and practice; and the connection between the political and economic domains. Th ese foundations broke away from any topdown and technocratic conception of knowledge— a conception of knowledge that the austerity experts would indefatigably strive to reestablish.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 580