Summary
Grinberg’s term, following Gil Eyal (2003: 140), for a repertoire of political misrepresentation that merges distinct class agendas and interests within a single collective identity in one party, concealing class conflicts without open political debate (Moments of Resistance, PDF p.137).
Details
- Its immediate occasion was the formation of the two multi-class blocks toward the 1965 elections: neither the Alignment nor Gahal represented a pure class interest; both gave up representing a specific class group for a general, loosely defined image of “right” and “left”, competing for the definition of the common good (PDF p.137).
- The Alignment was a clear case of condensation of class interests within one party, in addition to the repertoire of Tribal Channeling previously used to prevent ethnic political representation; condensation closed political space for working-class representation in the political field, though it did not prevent continued worker resistance in the economic field (PDF p.150).
Related pages
Moments of Resistance, Tribal Channeling, Political Space, Labor Institutional Complex