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THE CRISIS INTERREGNUM: FROM T H E N E W R I G H T- W I N G P O P U L I S M T O THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT
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Ingar Solty
In 2013, the world is entering the sixth year of the global crisis. In those six years, sparked by the unfolding events there has developed a burgeoning literature regarding the origins of the crisis. In many ways, this debate evolved from long-term disputes regarding the nature of the current phase of capitalism and its periodization (i.e., monopoly-finance capitalism; postFordism; finance-driven accumulation regime; financial-market capitalism; neoliberalism; high-tech capitalism; etc.) and has brought to light the epistemological and political differences between the various approaches. As Magnus Ryner has pointed out, however, with a few notable exceptions the debate has shed insufficient light on the political articulation of the crisis and the interrelations between the political and the economic sphere.1 With regard to not only the origins of the crisis, but also and particularly the viability of exit strategies from it, the struggles over hegemony occurring during the crisis are essential. As Gramsci noted during the secondto-last organic crisis of capitalism, the 1930s Great Depression: There is no question that immediate economic crises can in themselves not bring about fundamental changes; they can only prepare more favorable ground for the diffusion of certain approaches for thinking through, posing and solving, the questions that are decisive for the whole further development of the life of the state.”2
Hence, complementing the Marxist and Marxian crisis debate, the goal of this paper is to shed some light on the political articulations of the global crisis and assess the interrelations between global leadership efforts seeking 84
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