waauw wrote:by ignoring the globalist trend
The globalist trend is dead. We replaced it with the nationalist trend. Didn't you get the memo?
The counter-hegemon (Trump, Putin, Kern, AfD, Brexit, and the Neo-Mercantilist world forces) is in the process of destroying the transnational bloc,
as it was prophesied. The transnational bloc has, thus far, showed itself incapable of resisting the March of History we have unleashed.
Neo-Gramscianism perceives state sovereignty as subjugated to a global economic system marked by the emergence of a transnational financial system and a corresponding transnational system of production. The major players in these systems, multinational corporations and international financial institutions such as the World Bank and IMF, have evolved into a "transnational historic bloc" that exercises global hegemony (in contrast to the realist view of hegemony as the "predominant power of a state or a group of states").The historic bloc acquires its authority through the tacit consent of the governed population gained through coercive techniques of intellectual and cultural persuasion, largely absent violence. It links itself to other social groups that have been involved in political struggles to expand its influence and seeks to solidify its power through the standardization and liberalization of national economies, creating a single regulatory regime (e.g. World Trade Organization).
There are powerful forces opposing the progress of this historic bloc who may form counterhegemonies to challenge it as part of an open-ended class struggle. These might include neo-mercantilists who depend on the protection of tariffs and state subsidies. If a counterhegemony grows large enough it is able to subsume and replace the historic bloc it was born in. Neo-Gramscians use the Machiavellian terms war of position and war of movement to explain how this is possible. In a war of position a counterhegemonic movement attempts, through persuasion or propaganda, to increase the number of people who share its view on the hegemonic order; in a war of movement the counterhegemonic tendencies which have grown large enough overthrow, violently or democratically, the current hegemony and establish themselves as a new historic bloc.
We are tearing apart alliances, abrogating treaties, sabotaging elections, creating new media systems ... meanwhile, in France ...
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:09 am