Democracy is threatened by the inverted form of totalitarianism resulting from the free-market ideology. Is the Founding Fathers’ defiance against democracy an antecedent to its “management” today?
The Hundred-Year War Against Palestine
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not “complicated”; it is the story of a colonial enterprise that the Western world either supports or deliberately ignores, undermining the foundations of democracy.
L’économie manquante : faire de la prévention-régénération un modèle économique de croissance
Une ville inondée génère des contrats. Un bassin versant sain, qui contribue à prévenir l’inondation, ne génère aucun revenu pour ceux qui l’entretiennent. Le malade rapporte, la santé pas. La réparation est visible dans l’économie. La prévention, elle, peine souvent à trouver un acheteur.
Democracy Incorporated, by Sheldon Wolin
An unprecedented combination of corporate and state power has progressively shaped itself in the U.S. after WWII, as Sheldon S. Wolin characterized it, “Inverted Totalitarianism.” What is behind this concept?
The Dynamics of the Archaic
Since the Ronald Reagan years, there is objective collusion in U.S. politics between religious archaism and market fundamentalism. How did this dynamic come to be and what makes it so powerful?