Fordism marks a forced passage from economic individualism to a planned economy

Evidence

In generic terms one could say that Americanism and Fordism derive from an inherent necessity to achieve the organisation of a planned economy, and that the various problems examined here should be the links of the chain marking the passage from the old economic individualism to the planned economy. Problems arise from the various forms of resistance to this evolution encountered by the process of development, the source of the problems being difficulties inherent in both the societas rerum and the societas hominum . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1031

Categorization

• DEFINE: Positions Americanism/Fordism as the historical transition from economic individualism to the planned economy, and distinguishes the two resistance sources — things (societas rerum) and people (societas hominum).
• XREF: connects to: US financial-military hegemony structured the postwar Fordist world economy — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 825; Fordist modernity stabilized its economy to enable change while flexible postmodernism reverses this — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2102; Fordism required active nation-state economic management. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 813 (+1 more)