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Ation. But it is also a comjJromiM - not just a more or less Stable compromise between classes, but a compromise between tJle twO 'principles' tJlemselvcs: between the plinciple of nationality and tJlat of class su·uggle. This is the fu"St great faCtor of ambiguity in national identities and class idelllitics, and a corollal)' of their reciprocal detcl'lllination. Nowhere is tJlis ambiguity more apparent than in the joim crisis of these identities we are seeing today. Let us remain, for tJle moment, at the ccntre of tJle system: the cffecLS of globalization can be fclt everywhere, but it is at the centre (where tJle effects of social polarization and pauperizatioll arc to some degree suspended, whcre 'mall does not live by bread aloue' - or by oil) that the ideological dimension shows itself most prominently.
It is a crisis of thc ultimalc fOl'll1 assumed by that 'bourgeois statc' which has been refcrred to as 111(' 'Welftl" Stll', or, ill french, 'l'Etat-Prtroidence' (I'cligioll and ecollolllY 67 POLITICS AND THE OTHER SCENE MoIBICUOU$ IDENTITIES Ollce again), and which ought more tigorollsl)' to be described as tJle national-social state, In other words, it is a crisis of the relative integl"alion of tJ1e class sll'llggle, and classes themselves, illlO - and by - the nation-foml. hy it is propel'll' a crisis of hegemony in Gralllsci's scnse, in which phellomena of class decomposition (both from abo\'(~ and from below) and phenomena of vacillating national identity occur.
U BcgriIT und Cnchichtc', in Sd",'m'is,'" H1'mdl,,·;t, pp. 21 IT. 'I, In the recem altitudes ofcenain groups which ha\1:: arried OUi pogroms, Ihis regression becomes explicit, but it is also explicit ill the Gcmlan g<>'~nl' mCIll's attitude towards g)'psies. 5. ffJIlf 1m" is the title of Ihe. rer EX(l'cmiSll1lls dcr Minc. rIl1", n""fLv)UIII, 5 Deccrnbcr 1992. 7. ,jr'w,~N' ~UI1';' (Pads: I'"a)'ard, 1987: rel>rinted I'aris: Sc'llil. 1995), 8. S JI, III d;lJIflrmlill (I';ods: La Dccom'erlc, 1992), pp.