I’ve studied Wolin and this is an excellent verification of his analysis. The Democratic party in so far that it is dependent on oligarchs and corporations since Reagan has put the US in a pre-fascist mode. Trumpists, his Project 2025 planners, have clearly studied how Hitler, Musolini, Orban used the liberal democratic constitution in their countries to destroy it.
Spot on analysis of where we are today. Trump is appearing more and more as a sick old man, a mouthpiece for the oligarchy , and the crowd who created and is implementing, project 2025. He and his administration do not have a mandate. When the people rise up in the streets against fascist takeover of the country the government will fall
just to let you know Paul I saw the post of the flyer and agree completely with its content.
as you and many others predicted this guy is a Hitlerian prototype. I suspect. I hope many will be taking it to the streets and the courts to protest his insanity
Over the past few decades American institutions were hijacked and weaponized against the majority of Americans. After decades of having our criticism ignored we've withdrawn from the consensus and are raising them.
You can't have shared institutions without discussion and consensus. This is not some sudden thing but the consequence of decades of essentially a cold civil war in the US.
All political systems are class ruled. The question should be whether the elites are extensions of the lower class, not whether they exist. Elites are an intrinsic feature of human socialization.
I started informally referring to Trump as "assface" a few years back. I got that term from a woman who used to hang around with the Marxist history graduate students at Northern Illinois University's student center back in the late 1980s. It was her term for her ex-husband. She'd say "assface is being a real jerk about the kids this week" and we'd know who she meant. I had no idea how spot-on the term is for Trump until this pic started going around.
Wolin's surgically precise phrase, 'inauthentic opposition', also applies in Australia, the UK, and many other countries whenever the ruling party is the most right-wing of two major parties. This apparent spinelessness is actually strategic and has effectively become a modus operandi of the global capitalist alliance. Therefore, in regard to the revolution -- May the gods hasten the day.
Is this all you're going to do for 4 years? Go on and on about Trump being a Fascist while never once wondering why you are not persecuted? Yeah, you probably will, and you will continue to look silly. Here's why:
America's democracy has been dead since at least Bush v. Gore. If we had a real representative democracy, we'd have FAR better candidates than Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, whose nomination didn't even have the pretense of democratic process.
Besides, who was it who repressed Americans' free speech with charges of misinformation for the last four years? It wasn't Trump; it was the people you'd rather have in office, so what does that make you?
Your mourning for America's lost democracy is as hollow as a rotten log.
So what's wrong with you, Barbarian? Let me answer some of the question: like the other and typical older white male (this is about 96%) and mentally and morally challenged Trumpenleftiy fascism-deniers I've been hearing from for some time, you (1) can't or refuse to properly distinguish between consolidating fascism-in-formation and fully consolidated fascism; (2) have attacked a target (in this case me) without researching the target. Thanks to your lack of basic due diligence, you don't know that: (a) I have been radically criticizing the dismal capitalist-imperialist Democrats for many years' (b) I completely reject the description of the US capitalist-imperialist order as a "democracy" before as as well as during Trump. Your suggestion that I am for Dems in office and your statement that I am "mourning America's lost democracy" is proof that you are laughably ignorant of my writing and activism. You and other head-up-the-ass Trumpenlefty fascism-denying folks have every right to be barbarically ignorant about my publications and activism but I'm not going to give you a platform here.
Street’s forte is corralling weak-minded leftists, who get to pretend they aren’t Democrats while enjoying all the thrills of TDS and partisan participation.
Once populism’s fling with its current blatherskite demagogue is done, he’ll fasten himself to another insult term for the actual left, and work up another lather over the next h*tler, but the cant won’t change.
The denial dial is as pegged here as it is in Reich/Hartmann Land, it’s just aimed at the stragglers whose vestigial consciences are not quite dead.
Another knuckle-dragging senior white Trumpenlefty emerges from the moral and intellectual swamp to demonstrate how he shares with full on fascists a fascinating taste for conflating communists with Democrats. No doubt this is the same "journalist" who advanced a quiz question relating to Gilded Age Architecture and "economic growth" in the Jim Crow South: Alan Hodge, "Life of Luxury: From the late 1870s to the late 1890s, the Gilded Age marked a period of opulent architecture and economic growth in North Carolina." Alan is the author of
Our State North Carolina, the North Carolina Quiz Book, Compiled From Our State Quizzes Paperback – January 1, 2005
And gosh the pic fits the profile. Of course. I don't like to hitch perspectives and world views off of demography and identity signifiers, I truly don't, but goddamn if 96% of the the Trumpenelfish fascism-denying horseshit I get from these mouth-breathing Village Idiots doesn't come older white males. It's amazingly consistent. And sadly, this makes a certain amount of sociological and political science sense.
Note that the buffoon Hodge can't even comprehend the piece he purports to critique.There is a black and white contradiction between his claim that I am aligned with the Dems and this passage in the essay:
'5. The Dismal Democrats
The Democratic Party was rightly labelled “the inauthentic opposition” by the astute Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin eighteen years ago. It is a cringing “neoliberal,” capitalist-imperialist party allegiant above all to corporate donors and investors. It surrendered whatever claim it had to be a “party of everyday people” and “the working class” long, long ago. No mass outpouring of popular support is required to defeat this depressing, dollar-drenched, and demobilized party and its transparently disingenuous and inauthentic candidates, who kept many decent people from voting last fall by backing a US-sponsored genocide in Gaza. The dismal Democratic Party is a Weimar organization that opens the door to Republi-fascist takeover and constantly conciliates the Reich-most major party. No mass mandate is or was required to defeat the dismal dollar Dems.'
I know. I need help. But oh god, I love triggering midwit hacks.
Assuming anyone abides the slavering, please do not defame that other poor Alan Hodge by mistaking him for me. I’ve never been obliged to prostitute my writing.
I also make no claim to being leftist, though I am familiar with most of the breeds.
It might have been a hazy sort of ill-informed leftist impulse that led me to reject an academic life back in the 70s, but that and all my other -isms were spent long before my factory time served added up to a quiet retirement tweaking adolescent responses from Breitbart-level political writers.
And there was no popular mandate for unending genocidal support to Israel. Even when the sh*t was hitting the fan, the national level Democratic Party could not separate itself from AIPAC influence to save itself and the country from fascism. They thought not being Trump and the MAGA hordes would be enough. I feel for the local and state level Democratic leaders who are now shackled with Trump 2.0. Some are good people trying to make a difference. They have had the rug pulled out from under them. Joe Biden and the DNC rolled out the red carpet for fascism in the USA.
Well, the US has never remotely been a democracy and this has been especially and graphically true in relation to "US foreign policy," a euphemism for US imperialism.
This is the realm that needs to be focused on that I've emphasized. Forget about communist revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat (or not) which I think is going to be unnecessary. I've been sitting on this concept for years. I had a crash course in U.S. politics through the Bernie Sanders political revolution and quickly realized that electoral politics and representative so called democracy were a dead end. I'm going to give an outline and go into a little detail on what I think is possible in my substack soon I hope. I'm very confident that it is a solid idea and cannot imagine someone else has not already conceptualized this.
It's not about me by the way, which is why I hesitate to bring attention to myself. It's about maximizing the potential for success of an idea that I think the time is right for. Shits getting ripe right now.
I’ve studied Wolin and this is an excellent verification of his analysis. The Democratic party in so far that it is dependent on oligarchs and corporations since Reagan has put the US in a pre-fascist mode. Trumpists, his Project 2025 planners, have clearly studied how Hitler, Musolini, Orban used the liberal democratic constitution in their countries to destroy it.
Trigger or NSFW warning on that close-up of his gob, please.
Spot on analysis of where we are today. Trump is appearing more and more as a sick old man, a mouthpiece for the oligarchy , and the crowd who created and is implementing, project 2025. He and his administration do not have a mandate. When the people rise up in the streets against fascist takeover of the country the government will fall
just to let you know Paul I saw the post of the flyer and agree completely with its content.
as you and many others predicted this guy is a Hitlerian prototype. I suspect. I hope many will be taking it to the streets and the courts to protest his insanity
Over the past few decades American institutions were hijacked and weaponized against the majority of Americans. After decades of having our criticism ignored we've withdrawn from the consensus and are raising them.
You can't have shared institutions without discussion and consensus. This is not some sudden thing but the consequence of decades of essentially a cold civil war in the US.
I liked this but have to comment that this has been a class ruled political system literally from day one.
All political systems are class ruled. The question should be whether the elites are extensions of the lower class, not whether they exist. Elites are an intrinsic feature of human socialization.
Class rule is not an essential component of human nature.
That photo is just creepy.
I started informally referring to Trump as "assface" a few years back. I got that term from a woman who used to hang around with the Marxist history graduate students at Northern Illinois University's student center back in the late 1980s. It was her term for her ex-husband. She'd say "assface is being a real jerk about the kids this week" and we'd know who she meant. I had no idea how spot-on the term is for Trump until this pic started going around.
Wolin's surgically precise phrase, 'inauthentic opposition', also applies in Australia, the UK, and many other countries whenever the ruling party is the most right-wing of two major parties. This apparent spinelessness is actually strategic and has effectively become a modus operandi of the global capitalist alliance. Therefore, in regard to the revolution -- May the gods hasten the day.
Is this all you're going to do for 4 years? Go on and on about Trump being a Fascist while never once wondering why you are not persecuted? Yeah, you probably will, and you will continue to look silly. Here's why:
America's democracy has been dead since at least Bush v. Gore. If we had a real representative democracy, we'd have FAR better candidates than Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, whose nomination didn't even have the pretense of democratic process.
Besides, who was it who repressed Americans' free speech with charges of misinformation for the last four years? It wasn't Trump; it was the people you'd rather have in office, so what does that make you?
Your mourning for America's lost democracy is as hollow as a rotten log.
So what's wrong with you, Barbarian? Let me answer some of the question: like the other and typical older white male (this is about 96%) and mentally and morally challenged Trumpenleftiy fascism-deniers I've been hearing from for some time, you (1) can't or refuse to properly distinguish between consolidating fascism-in-formation and fully consolidated fascism; (2) have attacked a target (in this case me) without researching the target. Thanks to your lack of basic due diligence, you don't know that: (a) I have been radically criticizing the dismal capitalist-imperialist Democrats for many years' (b) I completely reject the description of the US capitalist-imperialist order as a "democracy" before as as well as during Trump. Your suggestion that I am for Dems in office and your statement that I am "mourning America's lost democracy" is proof that you are laughably ignorant of my writing and activism. You and other head-up-the-ass Trumpenlefty fascism-denying folks have every right to be barbarically ignorant about my publications and activism but I'm not going to give you a platform here.
Street’s forte is corralling weak-minded leftists, who get to pretend they aren’t Democrats while enjoying all the thrills of TDS and partisan participation.
Once populism’s fling with its current blatherskite demagogue is done, he’ll fasten himself to another insult term for the actual left, and work up another lather over the next h*tler, but the cant won’t change.
The denial dial is as pegged here as it is in Reich/Hartmann Land, it’s just aimed at the stragglers whose vestigial consciences are not quite dead.
Another knuckle-dragging senior white Trumpenlefty emerges from the moral and intellectual swamp to demonstrate how he shares with full on fascists a fascinating taste for conflating communists with Democrats. No doubt this is the same "journalist" who advanced a quiz question relating to Gilded Age Architecture and "economic growth" in the Jim Crow South: Alan Hodge, "Life of Luxury: From the late 1870s to the late 1890s, the Gilded Age marked a period of opulent architecture and economic growth in North Carolina." Alan is the author of
Our State North Carolina, the North Carolina Quiz Book, Compiled From Our State Quizzes Paperback – January 1, 2005
Keep up the good work Alan Hodge! https://www.ourstate.com/life-of-luxury/
And gosh the pic fits the profile. Of course. I don't like to hitch perspectives and world views off of demography and identity signifiers, I truly don't, but goddamn if 96% of the the Trumpenelfish fascism-denying horseshit I get from these mouth-breathing Village Idiots doesn't come older white males. It's amazingly consistent. And sadly, this makes a certain amount of sociological and political science sense.
Speaking of Hitler, it's a shame more Germans didn't develop HDS - Hutler Derangement Syndrome -- in the the 1930s.
Note that the buffoon Hodge can't even comprehend the piece he purports to critique.There is a black and white contradiction between his claim that I am aligned with the Dems and this passage in the essay:
'5. The Dismal Democrats
The Democratic Party was rightly labelled “the inauthentic opposition” by the astute Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin eighteen years ago. It is a cringing “neoliberal,” capitalist-imperialist party allegiant above all to corporate donors and investors. It surrendered whatever claim it had to be a “party of everyday people” and “the working class” long, long ago. No mass outpouring of popular support is required to defeat this depressing, dollar-drenched, and demobilized party and its transparently disingenuous and inauthentic candidates, who kept many decent people from voting last fall by backing a US-sponsored genocide in Gaza. The dismal Democratic Party is a Weimar organization that opens the door to Republi-fascist takeover and constantly conciliates the Reich-most major party. No mass mandate is or was required to defeat the dismal dollar Dems.'
I know. I need help. But oh god, I love triggering midwit hacks.
Assuming anyone abides the slavering, please do not defame that other poor Alan Hodge by mistaking him for me. I’ve never been obliged to prostitute my writing.
I also make no claim to being leftist, though I am familiar with most of the breeds.
It might have been a hazy sort of ill-informed leftist impulse that led me to reject an academic life back in the 70s, but that and all my other -isms were spent long before my factory time served added up to a quiet retirement tweaking adolescent responses from Breitbart-level political writers.
LOL. Go write yourself a North Carolina quiz question about this - a lovely little Gilded Age story from your beloved state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre
And there was no popular mandate for unending genocidal support to Israel. Even when the sh*t was hitting the fan, the national level Democratic Party could not separate itself from AIPAC influence to save itself and the country from fascism. They thought not being Trump and the MAGA hordes would be enough. I feel for the local and state level Democratic leaders who are now shackled with Trump 2.0. Some are good people trying to make a difference. They have had the rug pulled out from under them. Joe Biden and the DNC rolled out the red carpet for fascism in the USA.
Well, the US has never remotely been a democracy and this has been especially and graphically true in relation to "US foreign policy," a euphemism for US imperialism.
Lol yes this will totally help you right the ship
Yup.
Totally.
Retard.
Very interesting interview: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism
This is the realm that needs to be focused on that I've emphasized. Forget about communist revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat (or not) which I think is going to be unnecessary. I've been sitting on this concept for years. I had a crash course in U.S. politics through the Bernie Sanders political revolution and quickly realized that electoral politics and representative so called democracy were a dead end. I'm going to give an outline and go into a little detail on what I think is possible in my substack soon I hope. I'm very confident that it is a solid idea and cannot imagine someone else has not already conceptualized this.
It's not about me by the way, which is why I hesitate to bring attention to myself. It's about maximizing the potential for success of an idea that I think the time is right for. Shits getting ripe right now.
FUCK MO!