Inverted totalitarianism. Inverted totalitarianism is a term coined by political philosopher Sheldon Wolin in 2003 to describe the emerging form of government of the United States. Wolin analysed the United States as increasingly turning into a managed democracy (a concept which has similarities to illiberal democracy). Wolin uses the term "inverted totalitarianism" to draw attention to the totalitarian aspects of the United States governmental system while emphasizing differences between it and proper totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. Inverted totalitarianism and managed democracy[edit] Wolin argues that the United States has increasingly adopted totalitarian tendencies as a result of transformations undergone during the military mobilization required to fight the Axis powers in the 1940s, and the subsequent campaign to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and more recently, after 9/11, the war on terror campaign.[2] Inverted totalitarianism reverses things.
#OccupyWallStreet George Carlin - Spreading The Truth! The NYPD, now sponsored by Wall Street - Occupy Wall Street. This article made possible by Salon Core members. “NYPD! NYPD! JP Morgan doesn’t give a f*ck about you!” That was the chant of a crowd of protesters during one of the tenser moments Wednesday evening as police tried to corral the occupiers of Wall Street and force them to stay in the confines of Liberty Square. As it turns out, that version of the rumor isn’t quite correct.
Here’s what we know: JPMorgan gave a massive gift of $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation in the form of money, patrol car laptops, “security monitoring software,” and other tech resources. The police foundation is the private fundraising arm of the NYPD. “This gift is especially disturbing to us because it creates the appearance that there is an entrenched dynamic of the police protecting corporate interests rather than protecting the First Amendment rights of the people,” says Heidi Boghosian of the National Lawyers Guild, which has had legal observers posted at the major Occupy Wall Street marches.
Inverted Totalitarianism: Brand Obama and the Corporate State. Totalitarisme inversé. Chris Hedges, journaliste lauréat du prix Pulitzer pour le New York Times et auteur de plusieurs livres, a écrit un article percutant publié en anglais le 8 février 2010. Ce billet en est largement inspiré et en quelque sorte un compte rendu en français. L’article original de 12 pages est disponible sous le titre « Chris Hedges: Zero Point of Systemic Collapse ». Cet article est d’une importance capitale pour temps à venir. Il résume bien aussi mon analyse personnelle du déroulement des évènements passés, présents et surtout, futurs. Il mérite toute notre attention et puisqu’il est si bien écrit, ceci constituera principalement une traduction libre de l’auteur qui doit recevoir tous les mérites.
Nous sommes à la veille d’un des moments les plus dangereux pour l’humanité. Chris Hedges écrit que son analyse se rapproche de l’analyse de nombreux anarchistes. La démocratie, un système idéalement conçu pour défier le statu quo, a été endommagé et dompté pour servir servilement le statu quo.