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by Atheist-Lite » Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:09 pm
Rum wrote:sandinista wrote:Pappa wrote:Rum wrote:As they polarise the country the Tories will ultimately be credited with the resurgence of Marxism in the UK, which I predict will emerge as a new and refreshed ideology in the next year or two.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by resurgence in this context. I can't ever imagine Marxism being a popular political choice for even a large minority of the population.
I certainly can.
I think the term 'hegemony' is applicable here..and now. The notion of hegemony is that the cultural and political dominance of one way of thinking or a political conceptual system so dominates a society or country(s) that it overwhelmes and sometimes invalidates other ways of thinking. This is certainly true of America to a great extent where anything but total support for 'free enterprise' is almost impossible to discuss in a serious fashion in most quarters. We saw, following the collapse of the UUSR that any positrive thinking about the notional of communal social structures was ridiculed too. The 'hegemony' of capitalism and the mental straitjacket that it has on the population is currently in control and even limits the agenda and the language we can use.
It will be a long time yet before Marxism as such will be seen as a positive way forward. Given the horrendous history of the social 'experiments' so far, let alone the hegemony issue that is also easy to understand.
However if people are not totally oppressed to the point where there is no way of even expressing the desire for fairness, that voice will not be silenced.
Things change fast when they do and the abrupt moment is seldom noticed by any before it arrives. I guess food inflation and then clearing of the shelves at the supermarkets might lead some to doubt the current paradigm. Whether the tree falls to the extreme left or extreme right is not certain but the tree is being gnawed away at by the powerful teeth of a system in crisis. I think it is called a slack ron event !!!

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