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IN 1991 - as the Soviet monolith crashed down like a badly baked souffle, a certain breed of Western academic began to hyperventilate about the '' end of history.''

This argument, most famously peddled by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama, suggested that liberal democracy had finally won and every other '' ism '' was headed for a museum of dead ideas.

But Fukuyama completely ignored the sheer stubbornness of a dead idea. Failed ideologies do not simply pack up and leave. Instead they enter what the Australian economist John Quiggin calls a '' zombie state.'' Most become a set of hollow rituals and rhetoric cut off from reality.

To visualise this phenomenon, one might look at a modern day Labour Day rally. In these, speakers often rely on ' zombie rhetoric ' reciting slogans from the early and mid-20th century that no longer align with this current reality.

For example this disconnect is evident in the way the once subversive poetry of Pakistan's Pride Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Habib Jalib has been stripped of its sting and reduced to a mere aesthetic. 

Picture a Faiz couplet used as a caption for an Instagram post featuring a latte, or a Jalib quote slapped on to a tote bag. This was bound to happen.

This is '' zombie socialism. '' A middle class favorite. It is no longer about the proletariat or the actual redistribution of wealth, but has become a convenient '' anti-imperialist '' or '' anti-colonial '' cloak, used to hide the fact that those draped in it have run out of original ideas.

They scurry around digital echo chambers as if attending a fancy dress party, wearing the masks of Marx, Mao, Che or Lenin. Social media serves as their primary playground, where they flaunt a zombie ideology for ' likes '.

So a zombie ideology is a set of political beliefs proven ineffective by reality but continuing to aimlessly walk the earth.

Those ideas have been intellectually decapitated by the failure of their predictions, whether it is the promise of trickle-down prosperity or the utopian dream of a worker led paradise.

Yet these ideologies refuse to stay on the ground. They persist not because they offer solutions to contemporary crises but due to inertia and muscle memory.

Their followers are now just going through the motions albeit in a theatrical manner. They also use these ideologies to project an image / perception of themselves.

Liberals are no different in this regard. They too are manifesting a zombie ideology and system in which people are simply emoting rather than voting for substance.

They engage in a perpetual performance of outrage and tribal loyalty. As the Irish political scientist Peter Mair argued in Ruling the Void, political parties do not represent social groups anymore but, instead, act as the marketing agencies in a hollowed out democracy.

The American media theorist Neil Postman posited that the voters no longer judge candidates on policy but on the images and emotions they project turning democracy into a branch off the aesthetics industry.

In this environment, political discourse is replaced by the grammar of electronic and social media, where a candidate's perceived image matters more than their platforms.

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