Research Article
An Intellectual Mass-Transformism: Restoration and Postmodern Passive Revolution in the Neo-liberal Cycle
Pages 1-13 | Received 08 Apr 2016, Accepted 23 Jun 2016, Published online: 05 Feb 2018
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ABSTRACT
In
the 1970s, the historical-political cycle that had long characterized
Western social conflict was reversed, and the rise of the lower classes
was followed by a massive counter-offensive by the ruling classes. It
was then that modern democracy began to end, just as a neo-Bonapartistic
and media-oriented regime took hold that today constantly forms and
restructures Western public opinion. If the rise of the lower classes
was made possible through their conscious unification, a necessary
precondition for the weakest parts of society to be able to act
effectively in the conflict, the deconstruction of modern democracy, on
the contrary, has since then inevitably involved the disarticulation of
the antagonist subject and even the very concept of identity. It was a
process that took place mainly in the production domain and in the
capitalistic factories, of course. But it was also a process that would
not have been possible without a radical parallel transformation of
forms of consciousness, a transformation that calls into question the
ideological sphere and its philosophy. Generated primarily within the
intellectual left, the cultural shift towards postmodernism should
therefore be understood, in this perspective, as the prevailing
ideological feature of an enormous historical shift. It is a transition
in which restoration is intertwined with passive revolution, resulting
in a process that could be defined as a sort of intellectual
mass-transformism.
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