
Democracy Incorporated
Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
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Narrated by:
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Joe Barrett
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By:
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Sheldon S. Wolin
Democracy is struggling in America - by now this statement is almost cliche. 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"?
Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive - and where elites are eager to keep them that way. At best the nation has become a "managed democracy" in which the public is sheperded, not sovereign. At worst it is a place where corporate power no longer answers to state controls. Wolin makes clear that today's America is in no way morally or politically comparable to totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, yet he warns that unchecked economic power risks verging on total power and has its own unnerving pathologies.
Wolin examines the myths and mythmaking that justify today's politics, the quest for an ever-expanding economy, and the perverse attractions of an endless war on terror. He argues passionately that democracy's best hope lies in citizens themselves learning anew to exercise power at the local level.
Democracy Incorporated is one of the most worrying diagnoses of America's political ills to emerge in decades. It is sure to be a lightening rod for political debate for years to come.
The book is published by Princeton University Press.
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Eye opener
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A Must Read For ALL Citizens of Democracy!
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After many many books which took me all over the globe, I finally got the answer in Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Democracy in America is dead of dying, and no one is looking out for the 'little guy' who seems oblivious to the fact that his freedoms and rights are being, or already are eroded.
I discovered what the U.S. was up to in Afghanistan prior to 9/11 (see Charlie's War), and the whole world saw what happened in Iraq - 100,000 U.S. soldiers dead already. Meanwhile, Wall Street and the shadow banking system confiscated the wealth of the nation and assigned it to themselves while the 'little guy' suffers.
More ominous still, the world is at the mercy of the richest most powerful totalitarian regime in history. I am scared!
THE LIGHT IS DAWNING.
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If you could sum up Democracy Incorporated in three words, what would they be?
What we've becomeWhat was one of the most memorable moments of Democracy Incorporated?
The whole book was memorable.What about Joe Barrett’s performance did you like?
Clear and concise, making every sentence have an impact.If you could give Democracy Incorporated a new subtitle, what would it be?
Why the American Empire is FallingAny additional comments?
After you read this, you'll wonder why TV, newspapers, the internet..is filling our heads with such garbage and leaving out the truth .. Please listen to this book.What the media won't tell you
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political manipulation has made enemies of our fellow Americans.
MAGA inc
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Intelligent and wise
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Essential listening....
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Honest, accurate, and insightful.
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