Capitalism, modern subject and identity corporatism.

Abstract

The emergence of capitalist societies determined the process of political modernization that laid the bases for the expansion of the bourgeoisie as the ruling class. These bases defined the separation between state and society, public and private and a particular conception of subject that became universal in the figure of the citizen. The hegemony of the modern subject also defined the subalterns as a silenced group. In the relationship of tension between the formal universality that imposes itself as hegemonic and the real particularities that define subalternity, identities are established as a form of political action and break the monopoly of authorized speech of the hegemonic subject. The strategy of counteracting particular elements against formal universality characterizes what can be called identity corporatism as the moment in the process of constituting the subject “for himself”.