According to Habermas, modern capitalists systems have a tendency to develop one of the following identity :
Legitimation deficit
In Legitimation Crisis (1973) Jürgen Habermas argued that late (advanced) capitalist systems face crisis tendencies at the economic, rationality, legitimation and motivation levels.
Because the state intervenes ever more in the economy, it must justify its decisions to citizens; when it cannot generate enough mass loyalty for this, a legitimation deficit (legitimation crisis) appears – the tendency Habermas identified as characteristic of modern capitalism.
Democratic deficit is a term used mainly for the European Union, while 'consensus deficit' and 'communication deficit' are not Habermas's categories, although communication is central to his later theory of communicative action.
Hence, the answer is Legitimation deficit.
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