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Abstract
We are in a period when US legal thought is again opening up to renewed and sustained critiques of capitalism. This article situates this renaissance within both a longer history of political thought and the current political context in the United States. Drawing upon the observations of Alexis de Tocqueville, who argued that the rise of industry could lay the groundwork for a return to aristocracy, the article also considers how US jurisprudence since the early 1970s has proved Tocqueville somewhat prophetic. Today, we confront the accelerating rise of political wealth alongside the fall of the working classes into neofeudal labor practices—trajectories embedded in and abetted by decisions of the US Supreme Court.
我们正处在这样一个时期，美国法律思想再次向对资本主义的新的、持续的批评开放。本文将这一复兴置于更长的政治思想史和美国当前的政治背景之中。亚历克西斯•德•托克维尔(Alexis de Tocqueville)认为，工业的崛起可能为贵族制度的回归奠定基础。根据托克维尔的观察，文章还考虑了20世纪70年代初以来的美国法理学如何证明了托克维尔的预言。今天，我们面对的是政治财富的加速增长，以及工人阶级陷入新封建劳动实践的趋势——这种趋势根植于美国最高法院的判决并受到其教化。
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