2024 sees a World in crisis, polarisation, and liminality: But is there hope for a new era? – Andreas Kluth

In 2024, echoing the prophetic words of Antonio Gramsci in 1930, the world grapples with a crisis marked by extreme polarisation, democratic erosion, and neo-fascism. The struggle between the Woke Left and MAGA Right in the US mirrors Gramsci's concerns. Society, stuck in a historical liminality, faces challenges from migration to pandemics. Amid doomsday fears, techno-optimists envision a future of scientific marvels. As uncertainty breeds existential anxiety, 2024 promises upheaval, yet holds the potential for the birth of a new era, shaping the destiny of democracy and global peace.

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The World Is Feeling the Angst of Liminality: Andreas Kluth

By Andreas Kluth

The crisis of 2024 "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." Symptoms such as extreme polarization, democratic corrosion and neo-fascism in the US and elsewhere, in turn boding conflict, serfdom and war.

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