Proto-Facism in America - A Review. Proto-Fascism in America: Neoliberalism and the Demise of Democracy - A Review by Adam Fletcher "War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.
" - George Orwell in 1984. This book is an intelligent, defining account of our times. Scholar Henry Giroux effectively and concisely exposes the tyranny of the Bush Administration, and indisputably links corporations to the highjacking of American democracy. Throughout this publication Giroux draws powerful correlations between news accounts and critical analysis, without oversimplifying or patronizing the reader. Giroux explains that part of this new approach is connecting the apparent intransigence of the public today to the larger forces of the anti-community: crass consumerism and the multi-national corporations which have driven the marketplace into every aspect of public life: education, health care, and the duties of the government across the board.
Glastonbury plays host to tax protest at a sort of homecoming for U2. The last time U2 were booked to play Glastonbury a low-flying aircraft towed an anti-CND banner past the newly erected pyramid stage.
It was 1982, the first muddy year, and Bono's band didn't turn up. The activist-pilot was later fined £400 for flying without a licence. On Friday the Dublin-based rock band finally made it to the stage to find a crowd knee-deep in mud, again, and a protest directed closer to home Art Uncut planned to disrupt the performance in protest at the band's 2006 decision to move their tax affairs from Ireland to the Netherlands, and rumours spread of siege towers and stage invasions.
But the protest group's efforts, if visible, were shortlived. The festival's founder, 75-year-old Michael Eavis, had earlier told Glastonbury's resurrected radical newspaper the event was about "socialism with a small s". Eavis used the 1981 event – arguably his most radical moment – to raise funds for the anti-nuclear movement, naming that year's festival Glastonbury CND.
The Authoritarian Personality by Erich Fromm 1957. Erich Fromm 1957 The Authoritarian Personality First published: in Deutsche Universitätszeitung, Band 12 (Nr. 9, 1957), pp. 3-4;Translated: by Florian Nadge;CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2011.
What do we mean by “authoritarian personality”? We usually see a clear difference between the individual who wants to rule, control, or restrain others and the individual who tends to submit, obey, or to be humiliated. To use a somewhat friendlier term, we might talk of the leader and his followers. What they have in common, what defines the essence of the authoritarian personality is an inability: the inability to rely on one’s self, to be independent, to put it in other words: to endure freedom. The opposite of the authoritarian character is the mature person: a person who does not need to cling to others because he actively embraces and grasps the world, the people, and the things around him.
Love means recognizing the world as an emotional experience. New German Critique, No. 17 (Spring, 1979), pp. 120-128. The Social science encyclopedia. Benjamin's Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Richard Kazis. Benjamin’s age of mechanical reproduction by Richard Kazis from Jump Cut, no. 15, 1977, pp. 23-25 copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1977, 2004 “Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history.
But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.” In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the work of a little-known German literary and cultural critic, Walter Benjamin. Benjamin, like so many of his contemporaries in the German intellectual circles, grew up in an upper middle class, culturally assimilated, Jewish family in Berlin. In 1915, Benjamin met Gershom Scholem. In the 1920s, Benjamin developed relationships with both T.W. “discipline himself (sic) until his suffering no longer opens onto the precipitous road of hate, rather onto the ascending path of prayer.” Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism.
Authoritarianism (Personality trait)