Structural change continues beneath the surface of conscious politics

Evidence

Of course, absolutely, but when that is not around, what Marx called the old mole, the old black mole, is still working along, weaving its way through in the bowels of society, looking for another way out. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1132

Categorization

• DEFINE: The ‘old mole’ (Marx’s metaphor for revolution working underground) repurposed to describe slow, subterranean social change.
• SEED: The old black mole grounding the passive revolution could anchor an essay on how to read structural change that never surfaces as overt mobilization.
• XREF: connects to: Only tiny reversals of the system still mobilize the political imaginary — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 536; Seeing tech as new accumulation regime versus continuation changes political strategy — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 18; Class structure persists while class consciousness has been politically disavowed — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1908 (+2 more)