Some ten years ago, Slavoj Žižek popularized the simplified paraphrasing of the quote from Antonio Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks” that goes as follows: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”Now, almost a century later, we are struggling against the same “morbid symptoms” this Italian thinker wrote about back then: fascism, the flag of which became Vlasov’s tricolor; various imperialisms which deny agency to the “small nations”; and capital, which has no values other than the maximizing of profits.
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