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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1504215" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>this is a 3 hour interview with chris hedges and sheldon wolin. classifies the american political system as inverted totalitarianism. princeton (or 1 of the top schools) did a study that the bottom 70% of the us population has no say in government policy.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]LGc8DMHMyi8[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>do capitalism and democracy mix? or do the richest capitalists increasingly corrupt democracy?</p><p></p><p><strong>Inverted totalitarianism</strong> is a term coined by political philosopher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Wolin" target="_blank">Sheldon Wolin</a> in 2003 to describe the emerging form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government" target="_blank">government</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" target="_blank">United States</a>. Wolin believes that the United States is increasingly turning into an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiberal_democracy" target="_blank">illiberal democracy</a>, and uses the term "inverted totalitarianism" to illustrate similarities and differences between the United States governmental system and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism" target="_blank">totalitarian</a> regimes such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" target="_blank">Nazi Germany</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism" target="_blank">Stalinist</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" target="_blank">Soviet Union</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolin2008-1" target="_blank">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-Hedges-Liberal-Class-2" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-Hedges-As-It-Is-3" target="_blank">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-Hedges-2010-01-24-4" target="_blank">[4]</a> In <em>Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt</em> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges" target="_blank">Chris Hedges</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sacco" target="_blank">Joe Sacco</a>, inverted totalitarianism is described as a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics trumps politics.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[5]</a> In inverted totalitarianism, every natural resource and every living being is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodification" target="_blank">commodified</a> and exploited to collapse as the citizenry is lulled and manipulated into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government through excess <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism" target="_blank">consumerism</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensationalism" target="_blank">sensationalism</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1504215, member: 56035"] this is a 3 hour interview with chris hedges and sheldon wolin. classifies the american political system as inverted totalitarianism. princeton (or 1 of the top schools) did a study that the bottom 70% of the us population has no say in government policy. [MEDIA=youtube]LGc8DMHMyi8[/MEDIA] do capitalism and democracy mix? or do the richest capitalists increasingly corrupt democracy? [B]Inverted totalitarianism[/B] is a term coined by political philosopher [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Wolin']Sheldon Wolin[/URL] in 2003 to describe the emerging form of [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government']government[/URL] of the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States']United States[/URL]. Wolin believes that the United States is increasingly turning into an [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiberal_democracy']illiberal democracy[/URL], and uses the term "inverted totalitarianism" to illustrate similarities and differences between the United States governmental system and [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism']totalitarian[/URL] regimes such as [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany']Nazi Germany[/URL] and the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism']Stalinist[/URL] [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union']Soviet Union[/URL].[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolin2008-1'][1][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-Hedges-Liberal-Class-2'][2][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-Hedges-As-It-Is-3'][3][/URL][URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-Hedges-2010-01-24-4'][4][/URL] In [I]Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt[/I] by [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges']Chris Hedges[/URL] and [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sacco']Joe Sacco[/URL], inverted totalitarianism is described as a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics trumps politics.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#cite_note-5'][5][/URL] In inverted totalitarianism, every natural resource and every living being is [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodification']commodified[/URL] and exploited to collapse as the citizenry is lulled and manipulated into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government through excess [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism']consumerism[/URL] and [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensationalism']sensationalism[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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