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What Is the Interregnum?
Gramsci writes that when the ruling class has lost its consensus, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. He says usually it's when the leaders of a society have failed in a major undertaking they've asked for and received popular support for. The defeat of the US in Vietnam actually was a major crisis of authority according to Gramsci.