{"id":2336,"date":"2020-05-16T17:29:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:52:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T12:52:25","slug":"inverted-totalitarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/16\/inverted-totalitarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverted Totalitarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"\nBelow is an eight-part conversation between Chris Hedges and Sheldon Wolin (1922-2015) about, what Wolin called,  &#8220;Inverted Totalitarianism.&#8221;\nBriefly: Classic Totalitarianism = Politics trumps economics; Inverted Totalitarianism = Economics trumps politics.  This is a conversation about political philosophy and a history of, primarily, American &#8220;democratic&#8221; politics and its precarious social institutions.\n<p><hr>\n\nWolin&#8217;s major books are:\n<li>Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought (Part I &#8211; 1960; Part II &#8211; 2004)\n<li>Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life, 2001.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/epdf.pub\/democracy-incorporated-managed-democracy-and-the-specter-of-inverted-totalitaria3c847b905f0a79d72653d9ab3fa0797092136.html\">Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism<\/a>, 2008.<hr>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YjfKosDBOzQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7b94hrlBjas\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i4KOrQntZTk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p00xGpPmCaI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KNdVcmv4Dig\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8bws0bPNn3M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09zdeQFrlNk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jPyXnRcvm0A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is an eight-part conversation between Chris Hedges and Sheldon Wolin (1922-2015) about, what Wolin called, &#8220;Inverted Totalitarianism.&#8221; Briefly: Classic Totalitarianism = Politics trumps economics; Inverted Totalitarianism = Economics trumps politics. This is a conversation about political philosophy and a history of, primarily, American &#8220;democratic&#8221; politics and its precarious social institutions. Wolin&#8217;s major books are: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/16\/inverted-totalitarianism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inverted Totalitarianism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-institutions","category-political-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}