'ED Seeks To Establish New Ideologically Permanent Hegemony'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa intends to establish a new order in Zimbabwe founded on neoliberalism, a political analyst said.
The new order is in the form of elite convergence, the elites being the ruling ZANU PF party, the security sector, business leaders, opposition political parties and co-opted mainstream media.
Writing in an opinion piece, journalist and political commentator Takura Zhangazha, said:
Beyond PAC and POLAD, Mnangagwa has also engaged big players in private capital (not just its associations) on not just price increases but also by actively encouraging and promoting private-public partnerships in line with his neo-liberal economic policy dubbed ‘ease of doing business’.
While the media has remained slightly elusive, the government has also sought to engage it from a business interest angle to ensure that while a few editors and journalists of mainstream media platforms may not support him, the media owners are in step with the intentions of the government.
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… The intention is to create not just a new hegemony (dominant political, economic and cultural system) but also an ideologically permanent one.
That is, they intend to create a political system in which all other options are off the table except for neoliberalism, an ideological system that requires elite cohesion (inclusive of opposition political parties, all of which, you guessed right, are neoliberal, even if they don’t know it).
The key question that should be answered is, ‘Will it work?’ It probably will not and by default. But what is certain is that Mnangagwa is definitively going to go all out and try through using largely the carrot and occasionally the stick method.
