The Political Economy of Trust: A Subversion of Precarious Capitalism

This essay provides a profound analysis of Albena Azmanova's proposals for transforming the contemporary economic order. Instead of a naive denial of economic efficiency, the author advocates for a subversion of the system through decommodification—that is, separating the right to decent survival from market efficiency. The text exposes the mechanisms of the "crisis of crisis" as a tool for disciplining society and points to the need to build a political economy of trust. A key postulate is the creation of legal and social structures that reduce the fear of degradation, enabling individuals to exercise real freedom of choice and the fundamental right to refuse participation in the systemic coercion of productivism.