The 1978 analysis of exceptional state and authoritarian populism still frames present-day politics
Evidence
One question that this poses to contemporary readers is, what are the significant differences between the two conjunctures? Does the basic shape of social control identified in our analysis persist? Are we still in some kind of “exceptional state”? Or is the neoliberal/“market state” which followed fundamentally different in its modalities? And, if so, what are we to make of the continuing oscillation between free market and “authoritarian populist” impulses? — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1069
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- SEED: Essay angle: whether today’s politics is still an ‘exceptional state’ or a new market-state modality — Hall’s own open question invites the lifelong-learner to test the framework against current events.