“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.”
“I don’t know of any great power in history that lost its foothold or decayed because of external reasons; internal social dysfunction was to blame.
Adam Garfinkle, editor of The American Interest
Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
THE most frightening periods in history have often been interregnums — moments between the death of one king and the rise of the next.
Disorder, war, and even disease can flood into the vacuum, when, as Antonio Gramsci put it in his Prison Notebooks, “the old is dying and the new cannot be born”.
The dislocation and confusion of 2016 do not rival the turmoil of the inter-war period, when Gramsci wrote, but they are symptoms of a new interregnum.
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History moves in cycles. The interregnum will eventually end and a new order will be born. The survivors and inheritors of the old order will write the rules of the new one.
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“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.”
“I don’t know of any great power in history that lost its foothold or decayed because of external reasons; internal social dysfunction was to blame.
Adam Garfinkle, editor of The American Interest
Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
THE most frightening periods in history have often been interregnums — moments between the death of one king and the rise of the next.
Disorder, war, and even disease can flood into the vacuum, when, as Antonio Gramsci put it in his Prison Notebooks, “the old is dying and the new cannot be born”.
The dislocation and confusion of 2016 do not rival the turmoil of the inter-war period, when Gramsci wrote, but they are symptoms of a new interregnum.
..
History moves in cycles. The interregnum will eventually end and a new order will be born. The survivors and inheritors of the old order will write the rules of the new one.