Prolonged crisis is the terrain where political opposition organizes

Evidence

A crisis occurs, sometimes lasting for decades. This exceptional duration means that uncurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves … and that, despite this, the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making efforts to cure them within certain limits, and to overcome them. These incessant and persistent efforts … form the terrain of the conjunctural and it is upon this terrain that the forces of opposition organize. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1098

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramscian definition of the conjunctural terrain as the site where struggles to cure structural contradictions play out — where politics actually happens.