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Ideological Cement for the Global Economic Order – A Gramscian Analysis of the Third Way
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Ideological Cement for the Global Economic Order - A Gramscian Analysis of the Third Way This discussion on Third Way politics takes as self-evident the two primary functions of the modern state within capitalist society: (1) that it acts as the central body for administering the affairs and representing the interests of those groups who hold sway over the major means of economic production in society, and (2) apart from exceptional circumstances it functions to exclude, as far as possible, the masses from any form of political participation that may disturb this function. Following these principles it is possible to employ a conceptual framework derived from knowledge of the capitalist state's basic social role which allows us to plot a predictable pattern of action that it will undertake in order to maintain authority, address crises, and secure the public's ideal position of passivity. If we can understand the basic logic...
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