A dead political project can still dominate by default and inertia

Evidence

I do think that the financial crisis killed neoliberalism as a political project — but it doesn’t need to be alive in order to continue to dominate our minds, work and culture. Even though neoliberalism now lacks any forward momentum, it still controls things by default. So, sadly, I don’t see the deleterious psychic effects of neoliberalism waning any time in the immediate future. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2072

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the ‘zombie ideology’ idea — a system outliving its intellectual legitimacy, resonant with Fisher’s concept of interpassive belief. — connects to: Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force.; Stabilized politics make direct legacy influence fade into structure — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 135; Bureaucratic inertia makes officials extremely reluctant to stop started projects — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 817 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Political entrenchment is coextensive with history’s influence if defined by dead-hand sway #corroborates (0.88) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 502
• Stabilized politics make direct legacy influence fade into structure #expands (0.85) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 135
• Sacralized politics yields a self-sustaining power structure resistant to change #expands (0.83) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 108
• Mass institutions remain hollowed out even amid revived political energy #expands (0.82)
• Institutionalizing a critical intellectual project can strip it of its political force. #complicates (0.80)
• Dead-hand control of the past pathologies applies equally to party and policy entrenchment #expands (0.80) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 171
• Some political entrenchment is deliberately designed, not merely incidental #complicates (0.80) — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 202
• Bureaucratic inertia makes officials extremely reluctant to stop started projects #exemplifies (0.78) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 817
• A party becomes undestroyable once its mass element necessarily generates leadership #expands (0.76) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 680
• Exogenous political shifts, not internal lock-in, can dissolve institutional legitimacy. #complicates (0.75) — Georg Schreyögg and Jörg Sydow, The Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependence, 311