Fordism required active nation-state economic management.
Evidence
Fordism depended, evidently, upon the nation state taking - much as Gramsci predicted - a very special role within the overall system of social regulation. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 813
Categorization
- XREF: Gramsci’s prediction of state regulation recurs throughout Harvey; comparative against periodization accounts of postwar capitalism. — connects to: Fixed-capital intensity forced the state to stabilize demand. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 808; The 1973 recession undermined Fordism and birthed a new accumulation regime — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 864; The state’s crisis-management role grew in the post-Fordist era rather than shrinking — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1034 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Fordism marks a forced passage from economic individualism to a planned economy
#expands(0.90) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1031 - US financial-military hegemony structured the postwar Fordist world economy
#expands(0.82) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 825 - Fordism reorganized society and culture, not just production.
#expands(0.78) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 814 - Decent societies need strong states and bounded capitalist economies
#expands(0.75) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 732 - Fordist-Keynesian capitalism expanded globally to absorb de-colonized nations
#expands(0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 784 - State-capitalism theory downgrades the economic base in favor of direct political domination
#complicates(0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 600 - War forced comprehensive state economic control that outperformed laissez-faire.
#corroborates(0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 168