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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
by Sheldon S. Wolin
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We are part of other databases too, which arent owned by Amazon[p206].is the United States the model democracy or a highly equivocal one? That our system is democratic is more of an unquestioned assumption than a matter of public discussion and so we ignore the extent to which antidemocratic elements have become systemic, integral, not aberrantSheldon Wolin's book Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism received a Lannan Literary Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2008.[36]A technologically advanced system exploits a human weakness; indeed, it occupies that weakness and uses it as the medium for its own propagationIn doing so he fails to give a reasonable history of totalitarianism itself - which arguably has its origins in WWI Britain and America, and in the public relations industry born out of that period, models which Germany explicitly emulatedIt is an impressive description, and frightening because there seems no way outApr 04, 2013 notgettingenough is currently reading it Shelves: haven-t-read-but This thread is continued here: March 2014
The protesters demanded a recount and held firm for several days until an agreement was reached that set a date for a new election Close Overlay Days of Destruction, Days of RevoltThe main objectives of managed democracy are to increase the profits of large corporations, dismantle the institutions of social democracy (Social Security, unions, welfare, public health services, public housing and so forth), and roll back the social and political ideals of the New DealThey are like us, we have about 45,000 books listed on line with maybe another 50,000 we are struggling to get through to listImprove our minds
Do your local streets look better if they have book shops and bric a brac shops, clothes shops, butchers, bakers and green grocers? Or do they look better if your local streets are full of nothing but OxFam shops and supermarkets whilst Amazon hides somewhere you cant see it, waiting for you to press the button.2Being a uni group, spread around the world, it took them a while to figure out what to do about thisIt is even easier to see why, for example, the New York Police Department would pepper-spray Occupy protesters for "blocking the sidewalk" or "filming an arrest" while the law enforcement community insists it should have the power to monitor our telephone calls, our Internet activity and place video cameras literally everywhere--all while proclaiming that nothing is wrong with this pictureAlex Waddan International Affairs Of the many books I've read or skimmed in the past seven years that attempted to get inside the social and political debacles of the present, none has had the chilling clarity and historical discernment of Sheldon SThus the people, like wayward minors, needed guardians - not executors of their will but interpreters of their true interestsA democracy that is persuaded to distrust itself, to applaud the rhetoric of get government off your backs, its your money being wasted, and you should decide how to spend it renounces the means of its own efficacy in favour of laissez-faire politics, an anti-egalitarian politics, where, as in the market, the strongest powers prevailWithin the party and its auxiliaries (youth and womens organizations, veterans groups, business and farm organizations) power was ordered by hierarchical principles of commandand subordination: leadership, loyalty, discipline, and rigid observance of the party
Also interesting is Wolin's comparison of the political party in this age with the mass parties of the pastIn the narrative of the political archaist the United States was blessed with a once-for-all-time, fixed ideal form, an original Constitution of government created by the Founding Fathers in 1787The answer, perhaps, is spiritual at some level.The solution, the countermanding process, then must be a sort of enlightenmentPrinceton: Princeton University PressHis footnotes were worthy of their own book[27] Assuming that we all know our history neglects the reality that history has many versions; we need better contextPolitical action serves as the springboard toward any future gains in recovering individual political powerIt is Nazism turned upside-down, inverted totalitarianism
Magically, the clouds suddenly part and a tiny plane glides throughThe city-states of ancient Greece underwent frequent and often dizzying transformations, from cities governed by aristocracies to ones run by those characterized as democrats; Athenian democracy transformed itself into an empire and the Roman republic did the same; eventually both Athenian democracy and the Roman republic disappeared, eviscerated by their own expansionismIn another book I came across an explanation for why the people most affected don't start a revolution: they have been tranquillized into obesity and can't be weaned from their "entitlements"This book demonstrates why political science, properly practiced, is the master social science.Wolin's work is fully accessibleIt represented the clearest formulation of the administrations understanding of the mission of Superpower and of its totalizing reach^ Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and LibertyIt should be noted that between a half and two-thirds of qualified voters have recently failed to vote, thus making the management of the active electorate far easierThe manner in which Western corporate totalitarian regimes leverage the mythologized threat of terrorism mirrors the manner in which terrorist groups leverage the fear and anger felt towards Western imperialism2000-2017 ITHAKALoading Processing your request 064a88f820
Wolin in 1982
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