https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/tags/social-theory/Recent content in Social-Theory on MarginaliaHugoen-usTue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/liberalism-social-disembedding-and-managed-dependency/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/liberalism-social-disembedding-and-managed-dependency/This report explores the thesis that actually existing liberalism, especially when fused to advanced capitalism, tends to dissolve pre-liberal or nonmarket social bonds, reconstructing social coordination through commodified, bureaucratic, therapeutic, credentialed, and managerial mechanisms that create new dependencies.