Thatcherism’s nationalist guise masked a deeper global transformation

Evidence

It was a global moment, not a national moment. It paraded under the nationalist guise—British values, the flag, the Falklands, send the gunboat—but that’s just the Marxist notion that the future comes masquerading like the past. It was a masquerade. What was happening underneath was much deeper, more transformatory than that. The rise of a new, more planetary phase of global modernity. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1150

Categorization

• XREF: The nationalist masquerade of transnational economic forces connects directly to Anderson’s ‘imagined community’ and to how Islamophobia functions as a national-cultural guise for global restructuring. — connects to: Thatcherism rode a global capitalist restructuring that current austerity lacks — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1471