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    POPULAR-DEMOCRATIC vs AUTHORITARIAN POPULISM: TWO WAYS OF “TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY’ ‘Stwart Halt 1 ‘The question of democracy ceases to be the subject of absiract speculation, and becomes concrete and poltialy compeling in the ‘context of the ers ofthe British state which now confont us Crisis has appeared tobe the very condition of existence of he social formation Tor wo decades ~ some would argu, for nearly acentuy. But few would deny tha, since the political debicles of 1972 and 1974, a the ‘economic recession aftr 1975-6, that rss has reached a qualitatively new stage! The Heath interregnum was a bol, contradictory bid 10 “renovate. employing the twin instruments ofthe economic fee-orall ‘and legal compulsion. It ended in ruins, brought toa canelsion by Internally contradictory twists and by 8 widening but defensive class riltancy. The Callaghan episode ~a squalid and dsorganiing iterude = restored the now-classcal reperioire of the sacial democratic ‘management of capitalist crisis, but on a markedly weakening political ‘base. As that sci democratic repertoire was propressively eroded and ‘exhausted, the fissures in British society became everywhere more ‘manifest. The synchronization of the long-term criss of the Bish } economy wth a world-wide capitalist recession put paid to any prospects (and there were few, even had conditions been more propos) of the regeneration’ of economic conditions. In this period, the economic ‘recession began really to bite none sector after anther of soci life The sharp round of wage militancy in the opening months of 1979 was symptom of stalemate: a stratery of conservauve containment confronted by a militant defence of detning ving standards the one a 138 sruaer WAL, unable o constitute the socal and political conditions fr recovery: the ‘other able only 10 infit instant damage in losing bate against the erosion of teal wages by inlationary pressures. More pertinent to our concerns have been the political and ideological conditions of ‘ris’ which this nteride has revealed. The period has winessed the de facto erosion of the two-party dominance of the parliamentary sene, and the opportunist construction of temporary parliamentary coaltion,aliances and puts forthe most short erm and ‘ragmatic ends ~ that patching of ciques and cabal, that wheeling and ‘ean in the lobbies, which sa sign ofthe undermining of the repre ‘seative parliamentary democratic system, and characteristic of the Slow det towards a government of national interest? There have also ‘been the mufed but unmistakable signs of a fragmentation of the rational state itself, in the movement towards devolution and ‘eionalization; the frst relly significant shit of that kind since (excepting Ieand) the Act of Union ‘The rotation of parliamentary fractions may not in ise be of structural significance: but it provides symptomatic evidence ofa enetal Crisis of politica representation. There have Been important secular shifts land dis inthe relation between the clases and their traditional means ‘of politica representation: that process by which ‘the great masses become detached from tee rational delogies and no longer beieve that they used to believe which, as Gramsci arpuedconssts precely in the fact thatthe ol is dying and the new cannot be born? Coupled with the new forces of the "ada right, and the fragmentation of the traditional political ideologies ofthe social democrat let, they point if ‘ot to that “orce of non party men linked to the government by paternait ies ofa Bonapartst Caesars type then at leat toa moment (of what Gramsci called profound tranformism, not unjustly referred 10 18 creating the conditions for a ‘parliamentary dictatorships tn this Sseting, the question of democracy becomes a principal sit and stake in the struggle the very object ofthe statis of wansformism, rom right ‘nd ef like, Acrou this era inthe coming period, some ofthe most

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