As an atheist it is sometime easy to become hyper focused on what those people over there are doing wrong and how they need to fix their views and join the 21st century. Sheldon Wolin takes this view and compares it to what we have going on right now in
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Dead Wild Roses: Inverted Totalitarianism – Sheldon Wolin
Take a look at what’s going on, look at the article. Should we be worried? You tell me. “Resisting the monopolies on left theory by Marxism and on democratic theory by liberalism, Wolin developed a distinctive—even distinctively American—analysis of the political present and of radical democratic possibilities. He was
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Currently reading Democracy Incorporated by Sheldon Wolin. He speaks of totalitarianism in a different form as opposed to that described by Hannah Arendt, but of what he terms inverted totalitarianism in which the state is hollowed out to serve corporate interests rather than those of the public. Thus quote
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Reposting because it is important. Thanks to The Nation for hosting Sheldon Wolin’s article. “The war on Iraq has so monopolized public attention as to obscure the regime change taking place in the Homeland. We may have invaded Iraq to bring in democracy and bring down a totalitarian regime, but
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