Post-Soviet Western politics consolidated around consensual global market consensus.

Evidence

The photographer’s testimony evokes a mood palpable across the OECD world. In a foreword to the 1992 reissue of his Society of the Spectacle, French philosopher Guy Debord anticipated a planet “officially unified” as “a single bloc in the consensual organization of the global market.” Two years later, the Communist Party of Italy’s erstwhile leader Achille Occhetto traveled to Wall Street, declaring its banks “the temple of civilization”; NATO headquarters in Brussels, he ventured, was “the center of world peace.” — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 34

Categorization

• SEED: The Occhetto Wall Street quote is a ready-made anecdote for an essay opening about how thoroughly the 1990s consensus absorbed former enemies of capital.
• CANDY: ‘A former Italian Communist leader called Wall Street banks the temple of civilization’ is a small, self-contained talking point.
• XREF: connects to: Post-Cold War US foreign policy was bipartisan and aimed at capitalist world integration; Post-1989 left parties dissolved into market-friendly formations — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 126