Holding office differs fundamentally from winning hegemony

Evidence

If New Labour taught us anything, it was that holding office is by no means the same thing as winning hegemony. Yet without a parliamentary strategy of some kind, movements will keep foundering and collapsing. The task is to make the links between the extra-parliamentary energies of the movements and the pragmatism of those within existing institutions. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1736

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Gramscian hegemony theory and the distinction Fisher repeatedly draws between formal power and cultural dominance elsewhere in K-Punk. — connects to: Business investment in capturing parliaments proves those institutions matter — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1681