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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoLayer Zero2023-09-11T18:25:28+00:00
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robertogrecoThis exceptional duration means that incurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves and that despite this the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making every effort to cure them within certain limits and to overcome them. These incessant and persistent efforts (since no social formation will concede that it has been superseded) form the terrain of the conjunctural, and it is upon this terrain that the opposition organizes.
Though this passage was written about interwar Italy and appropriated to great effect by Stuart Hall to explain the rise of Thatcherism in Britain, it is difficult not to recognize our moment in it.
In Riley’s reading, an organic crisis is a systemic political dissociation between represented and representative. Political leadership forfeits the acknowledged legitimacy of its constituency. Such a scenario may or may not call forth a novel political formation, depending on the development of civil society—which he finds an autonomous and contingent matter. Hall, however, adds another element: he distinguishes between the “conjunctural” and the “organic,” observing that a crisis only passes from the merely conjunctural to the organic when the “efforts” described by Gramsci cease to be restorationist and take on an inventive character, aiming to establish a new “hegemony” on the basis of a new social bloc. Per Riley, this is only possible on the basis of civic association, which he sees as largely absent across our political spectrum.
Certainly skepticism about the possibility of resolution to the crisis is warranted. Even the unlikely victory of both Democratic candidates in Georgia’s January senate races won’t transform the underlying fact of American politics: the ungovernability of the country. That, in turn, can only mean that the crisis will not be resolved in the near term. It’s true that efforts to resolve the crisis from the right have, for the moment, been beaten back. But Trump’s failure to cohere what Gramsci would call a hegemonic “historic bloc” across class lines is no guarantee that the right will not produce such a formation successfully in the near future: one can see the outlines of it in Trump’s barely defeated coalition and the fervid, if ineffectual, resistance to the election outcome—and can easily imagine its triumph in the absence of Covid-19.
Looking to the other side, it goes without saying that the current leaders of the Democratic Party are fundamentally incapable of resolving the impasse. As the weeks since the election have revealed, the party’s directorate wishes desperately to convey to its public a willingness to accommodate the police and the system of white supremacy of which they are the visible and contested face. This is nothing other than an announcement of an intention not to contest for hegemony—since the rival far-right hegemony coheres precisely around the slogan “Blue Lives Matter.”
At the same time, and more promisingly, the disarticulated elements of a left-wing hegemony also appeared in 2020—not together, but rather in sequence. First the Sanders campaign, and then the spring-and-summer uprising against the police, each expressed a fragment of a new historic bloc. The relative social disconnection between the different parts of this hypothetical bloc, itself emerging from the disorganization of the American working class, is the reason it appeared in two parts rather than one. Each half has its own internal structures of organization. Virtually every city in America and many smaller towns are now home to what is a national panoply of Black activist organizations that emerged or grew this summer, some associated directly with larger national groups, some local specialties. Their reach, depth, and radicalism vary, but we still have yet to fully digest the scale of their achievement this year in pure organizational terms. Similarly Democratic Socialists of America and related local groups such as the tenants’ unions that have emerged in cities across the country, the Sunrise Movement, Reclaim Philadelphia, Reclaim Rhode Island, Lancaster Stands Up—and even more moderate cousins like the Working Families Party, Justice Democrats, and Indivisible—have seen very broad rank-and-file participation over the past four years. There are points of intersection between these halves, particularly promisingly among young Latinos and in the struggle against the deportation machine. There are individual people who straddle them in a sustained way, and voters and activists from one who will turn out for the other. But the overall pattern of separation at the associational level is unmistakable.
In the moments of celebration after Biden’s victory was announced, however, one could faintly glimpse a new level of unity emerging. As people filled the streets both to defend the election result and to exult in it, a new bloc began to show its face. Trade unions, largely absent from the year’s earlier movements, figured centrally in demonstrations in Philadelphia, as they had done in the election campaign beforehand. The energy and solidarity of the summer uprising were present as well, transposed into a more joyful key. The decisive role of cities like Philly, Detroit, and Minneapolis in the defeat of the right points toward the possibility of leadership for the emerging socialist and abolitionist politics based in the young activist centers of those cities, and embodied on the electoral stage by Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, and of course Nikil Saval. A socialist program that confronts white supremacy as its immediate object—rather than trying to find a majority by navigating around the edifice of white supremacy—is the principle of unity for this bloc. Its social basis lies in an alliance of low-wage workers and high-debt workers, disproportionately young, who are concentrated together in cities and increasingly in suburbs. It is not that such an alliance on its own constitutes a majority; it is that it forms a potentially solid social foundation from which to provide rational answers to the structural problems of American society, and thus to recruit the more disparate elements needed to resolve the crisis. Join together these parts, and you have a big enough resonator.
Still, to achieve this coherence will be a task of enormous conflict—with the forces of direct repression in the streets, which will not be discouraged by the presidential transition, and with the conservationist Democrats. Organization is the entire question—the building of relationships and trust across the forms of social difference that have thus far prevented the socialist message from resonating as widely as it might. For this, as it happens, Snyder had some advice, although he perhaps didn’t realize this was what he meant: “put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people.” Or, as Phil Agnew put it—knowing exactly what he meant—“squeeze a hand.””]]>2020 gabrielwinant donaldtrump trumpism politics elections us fascism organizing blacklivesmatter race racism capitalism organization berniesanders dsa democraticsocialistsofamerica sunrisemovement protest activism reclaimphiladelphia reclaimrhodeisland philadelphia rhodeisland lancasterstandsup lancaster workingfamiliesparty justicedemocrats indivisible republicans democrats history future present ilhanomar rashidatlaib coribush alexandriaocasio-cortez jamaalbowman nikilsaval labor unions teaparty work workers philagnew stuarthall antoniogramsci timothysnyder qanon talialavin bluelivesmatter dylanriley hierarchy wendybrown liberalism neoliberalism covid-19 coronavirus economics alexpareene mikedavis joearpaio whitesupremacy minneapolis riogrande texas jessicacisneros workingclass class newdeal congressionalblackcaucas power elitism establishment eugenedebs california dreamdefenders florida socialism patriomonialism albertotoscano communism georgepadmore jimcrow colonialism settlercolonialism angeladavis marxhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c04db5fb35b/The Argument of “Afropessimism” | The New Yorker2020-07-13T17:02:51+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-argument-of-afropessimism
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