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Has anyone here read Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon Wolin of Princeton? It's been a few years since I read the book and it's almost midnight so I'll be brief, but it really is a more coherent work on similar thoughts as what the OP is talking about; basically how the triumph of global neoliberalism and the increasing wealth/income disparity has worked to entrench merely a facade of democracy, where the choices are carefully managed by wealthy corporate interests. http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Inc...cy+incorporated quote:Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? It's been even longer since I've read Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy but from what I remember Schumpeter's vision of late stage capitalism was particularly prescient. Gonna have to bust out some of the old poli sci books. Zeno-25 fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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