Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS and the One-State Solution 20 minutes ago - By [MintPress News] This is, according to the Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the ‘interregnum'- the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions occur, when empires collapse and others rise, and when new conflicts and struggles ensue. The Gramscian ‘ interregnum , however, is not a smooth transition, for these profound changes often embody a ‘crisis,' which “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,” the...