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December 01, 2015

Sheldon Wolin - Inverted Totalitarianism - Corporate State

Article
SOURCE
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/11/02/sheldon-wolin-and-inverted-totalitarianism
Article by Chris Hedges


Summary
Sheldon Wolin
US political theorist / academic
d. 2015
America:  'Inverted totalitarianism'
+ other


More 
Sheldon Wolin
US  political theorist
Prof. politics Princeton (1973 to 1987)
+ other posts - 40 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Wolin

Wolin books:
>> 'Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy & the Spectre of Inverted Totalitarianism'
>> 'Politics & Vision'

Wolin discusses:
1. Bankrupt democracy.
2. Decline US Empire.
3. Rise: corporate power  -- ie “inverted totalitarianism”

Ahead of his time:
Sheldon Wolin
/ theorising:
heavy statism forging --> neoliberalism
/ centralized govt control re economic planning &  policy

Wolin:
statism --> neoliberalism
-->  fusions of economic with political power
-->  poisoning democracy at its root

Wolin last book:
'Democracy Incorporated'
-- details American peculiar form of corporate totalitarianism.

Wolin:
“Democracy Incorporated” / US corp. totalitarianism
No USA  institutions can be accurately be described as democratic

Wolin
#USA undemocratic:
--> highly managed national institutions
--> money-saturated elections

Wolin
#USA undemocratic:
-> lobby-infested Congress
-> imperial presidency
-> class-biased judicial + penal system
-> media

Sheldon Wolin:
'Inverted totalitarianism'
-->  is different from classical forms of totalitarianism.

Sheldon Wolin:
'Inverted totalitarianism'
= within: 
 faceless anonymity of corporate state
NO demagogue or charismatic leader

Wolin:
American 'Inverted totalitarianism'
effectively seized all
mechanisms of power to render citizen impotent

1/3
Wolin:
'Inverted totalitarianism'
seized all mechanisms of power:
outward façade of:
electoral politics
Constitution

2/3
'Inverted totalitarianism'
seized mech. power:
civil liberties
freedom of press
independence of judiciary
iconography

3/3
Wolin:
'Inverted totalitarianism'
seized all mechanisms of power -->
traditions
language of US patriotism
Wolin:
'Inverted totalitarianism'
Corporates --> effectively seized all mechanisms of power
-->  to render citizen impotent

Hitler's NSDAP (Nazi) govt
-> life uncertain for wealthy + privileged
-> providing social programs for working class & poor
1/
Unlike NSDAP (Nazi),
inverted totalitarianism exploits the poor
 ... 2

2/3
Unlike NSDAP (Nazi) totalitarianism,
inverted totalitarianism
  • reduces or weakens health programs + social services

3/4
Unlike NSDAP (Nazi) totalitarianism,
inverted totalitarianism
  • regiments mass education for insecure workforce

3/4
Unlike NSDAP (Nazi) totalitarianism,
inverted totalitarianism
*threatens working class --> importation of low-wage workers

Sheldon Wolin:
'Inverted totalitarianism'
working in high-tech, volatile & globalised economy
as precarious as the Depression

Sheldon Wolin:
'Inverted totalitarianism'
projects power upwards
--> antithesis of constitutional power

Sheldon Wolin:
'Inverted totalitarianism'
projects power upwards
to create instability
citizenry off balance & passive

Sheldon Wolin:
'Inverted totalitarianism'
rational system
economy of fear / feeds uncertainty

Wolin:
'inverted totalitarianism'
--> perpetuates politics all time
endless extravagant show elections
politics w/out politics

Wolin:
'inverted totalitarianism'
'Citizen' is NOT participating in power
--> is invited to have ‘opinions’

Wolin:
'inverted totalitarianism'
'Citizen' opinions:
--> are measurable responses to questions pre-designed to elicit them.

Wolin:
'inverted totalitarianism'
political campaigns rarely re real issues
--> focus political personalities, empty rhetoric, PR

Wolin:
'inverted totalitarianism'
Money has effectively replaced the vote
--> citizen of US Empire irrelevant spectator.

Wolin:
'inverted totalitarianism'
IMPOTENT CITIZEN
--> permitted empty vote & forgotten once election carnival over.

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
elections
serve up pliant legislators for lobbyists to shape
misrepresentative or clientry govt

Wolin:
inverted totalitarianism
elections --> produce lobbyists' puppets
= depoliticisation of citizenry
= antidemocracy system

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
--> public is DENIED use of state power
trivialization discourse = corp. power - UNCHALLENGED

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
trivialization discourse
=  tactic: fragmentation, emotions, antagonism
--> corp. unchallenged

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
Cultural Wars --> NOT strong political involvements
Cultural Wars = SUBSTITUTE

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
Cultural Wars --> POLITICS OF THE INCONSEQUENTIAL
/ substitute exploited by MEDIA & politics

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
Cultural Wars --> DISTRACTS ATTENTION
trivialization discourse
--> corp. unchallenged

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
Ruling groups --> tools to UNDERMINE PUBLIC COHESIVENESS
=  public POLITICALLY INEFFECTIVE

Wolin
classic totalitarianism: economics subordinate to politics
/ inverted totalitarianism: ECONOMICS DOMINATES POLITICS

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
POLITICS DOMINATED BY ECONOMICS
--> in varying forms of ruthlessness

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
POLITICS DOMINATED BY ECONOMICS
-> USA showcase of MANAGED democracy
(suppression not visible)

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
corporate state
--> legitimated by elections it controls

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
corporate state
Extinguishes democracy
rewriting & distorting laws (once supported democracy)

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
corporate state
--> basic rights REVOKED
--> by judicial & legislative fiat (sanction)
corporate state
Courts & legislative bodies, in the service of corporate power

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism:
COURTS --> interpret laws
to strengthen corporate control & abolish corporate oversight

Wolin
(Nazis negated constitution)
BUT inverted totalitarianism:
exploit porosity & legitimate power --> by law interpretation

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
eg. EXPLOITATION law
--> HUGE contributions protected under 1st Amendment (speech)

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
HIJACKS 1st Amendment
to treat HEAVILY FINANCED LOBBIES & CORPS.
like PERSON petition govt.

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
harsh & violent control measures avoided
AS LONG AS:  dissent remains ineffectual

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
elites -- especially ** intellectual class **
HAVE BEEN  BOUGHT OFF
--> various methods - list

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism / intellectual class OWNED:
*govt contracts
*foundation funds
*joint projects: uni. + corp.

Wolin
intellectual class OWNED:
joint projects w/ wealthy donors
intellectuals -->seamelessly integrated into corp. system


Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
will become as brutal and violent as past totalitarian states
if RIGHTS / privacy etc eroded

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
'War on Terror'
- pre-emptive / released re restraint
--> PRESUMES STATE POWER CAN TURN INWARDS

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
-- claimed power domestically
--  projected powers abroad
--> measure NOT by CONSTITUTION
Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
POWERS claimed not by measure of Constitution
but by OFFICIALLY DEFINED 'terrorism'

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism = corporate state
'legally' harass & kill citizens with impunity
--> eg police VIOLENCE / poor

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
*militarized police
*wholesale surveillance
*extra-judicial police killings
for underclass

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
reality for underclass
will BE reality for US ALL IF we begin to RESIST
FUNNEL OF POWER UPWARD

Wolin
inverted totalitarianism
/ We are tolerated as citizens
ONLY as we PARTICIPATE IN ILLUSION
of PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY

Wolin
Corporate State
inverted totalitarianism
--> will eventually look like classic totalitarianism

Wolin -- on African-American prison pop
criminal justice
-->strategy of political neutralisation
+ channel of instinctive racism

Wolin
Corp. monochromatic media
pundits set agenda & parameters
--> those changing context dismissed or labelled 'extremist'

Wolin
Corporate State
inverted totalitarianism
illusions disseminated  --> myth dominates decisions
-->  DISASTER ON EMPIRE

Wolin
Myth cannot govern decisions in real world:
ambiguity + stubborn facts abound
--> disconnect between actors & reality


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COMMENT

Really enjoyed this article.

Sheldon Wolin sounds like he was an interesting guy (died 2015).


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