The trouble began at the end of the Cold War, when the collapse of a bankrupt communist ideology was complacently interpreted as the triumph of the market. As communism was discarded, so was the concept of the state as an agent around which our collective interests and ambitions could be organized.
麻烦始于冷战的结束，破产的共产主义意识形态的崩溃被自鸣得意地解释为市场的胜利。随着共产主义被抛弃，国家作为我们的集体利益和目标组织中心的代理人的概念也被抛弃了。