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What we get here, with Scott’s “paper-thin” account of hegemony, is an illuminating way of understanding Gramsci’s trenches.
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Political liberalism finds fascism abhorrent but neoliberalism is a fascist generator. Welcome to progressive neoliberalism: not the anti-fascism you’re looking for.
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We have entered a stage of political conflict in the US where the basic attitudes and institutional mechanisms that normally support resolution through compromise are now effectively superseded by the conditions of out and out political struggle.
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I project myself four months into the future, and ask myself, “what do we do now that we’ve lost the midterms?
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For people considering participating in protest or civil disobedience, it helps to have some practical know how. The following summary points are taken from my experience with ACT UP and Radical Faeries in the 80s, and can be found in a compendium called ACT UP Civil Disobedience Training.
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Protest and civil disobedience are obviously not for everyone (unless of course there really is no option, and then it is). My suggestion is that even taking steps short of activism, or perhaps on the road to activism, will make you start to feel a little bit better.
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