{"id":21253,"date":"2023-04-27T19:04:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=21253"},"modified":"2023-04-27T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:04:45","slug":"21253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=21253","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Absent some new realignment, we face an unsettled terrain with no broadly legitimate hegemonic ruling bloc\u2014nor any clear and credible counterhegemonic challenger. In this situation, the most likely <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">near-term<\/span> scenario is a series of pendulum swings, with governments oscillating back and forth between the frankly neoliberal (progressive or regressive, diversity-friendly or exclusionary, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">liberal-democratic<\/span> or proto-fascist) and the professedly anti-neoliberal (left- or <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">right-populist<\/span> or social-democratic or communitarian), the precise mix to be determined in every case by national specificities.<\/p>\n<p>Such political oscillations mark the present as an interregnum: a time when, in the words of Antonio Gramsci, &#8222;the old is dying and the new cannot be born.&#8220; The duration of this interregnum is anyone&#8217;s guess, as is the likelihood of its devolution into full-bore authoritarianism, major war, or catastrophic meltdown\u2014as opposed to &#8222;mere&#8220; slow unraveling. One way or another, the system&#8217;s impasses will continue to grind away at our ways of life, until such time as a credible counterhegemonic bloc can be assembled. Until then, we will live (and die) amid the vast array of &#8222;morbid symptoms&#8220; that mark the death throes of financialized capitalism, and the general crisis it has wrought.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens, this much is clear: crises like this one do not come along every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Nancy Fraser,\u00a0<em>Cannibal Capitalism<\/em>, (London: Verso, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2022), 136-137<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absent some new realignment, we face an unsettled terrain with no broadly legitimate hegemonic ruling bloc\u2014nor any clear and credible counterhegemonic challenger. In this situation, the most likely near-term scenario is a series of pendulum swings, with governments oscillating back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=21253\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}