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Occupy The System! Societal Constitutionalism And Transnational Corporate Accounting, Moritz Renner
Occupy The System! Societal Constitutionalism And Transnational Corporate Accounting, Moritz Renner
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Today's most pressing constitutional question is posed by a global economic system whose expansive tendencies seem no longer controllable. In addressing this question, the theory of Societal Constitutionalism apparently shifts established ideological coordinates by developing a theory of the self-constitutionalization of social spheres. It seeks to combine the virtues of grassroots democracy with the sophistication of systemic social theory. Thus, its normative claim can be formulated as an oxymoron: "Occupy the System!" The claim is an oxymoron because it points to the apparent impossibility of critical social theory in a functionally differentiated society: How can a functional system such as …