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#totalitarianism

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Arendt

Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/44988/

WIST Quotations · Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) - Arendt, Hannah | WIST QuotationsTotalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another. This portion of the interview was published in The New York Review of Books (1978-10-26). Other parts of the interview were turned into an episode of the French TV…
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yianiris

The US elites are fighting with time against a demographic shift that is overdue. Inevitably this will be a political shift, affecting the UK Fr De Israel oligarchs (Anglo Saxons and Zionists united). The demographic shift in the US causes anglo-saxon-franco-zionists to become a minority in their own empire. Hence the brutal and abrupt hostility against rivals of this global hegemony, Russia, China, India, Islam.

#neoliberalism #marxism #totalitarianism
#Russia #China #India #BRICS

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Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke

#Trump’s #imperial plan is now eroding the #rights of people who thought they were safe

No one is safe in a #dicatorship. No one. And the closer you get to the power center, the more at risk you are. #arbitraryness is what characterizes such regime of #authoritarianism and #totalitarianism and it can hit anyone anywhere. You live with the constant fear of finding yourself suddenly on the wrong side of a constantly and hafazardly moving line. And so is it in the #USA.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

In this, there is something that can be seen everywhere in regimes that either have or crave absolute power. In order to seize authority and run a whole country according to the interests of a sovereign, more and more parties must be disenfranchised and repressed. The imperial form of governance is the prototype of what is required to exert control in the presence of mass dissent. But all political systems with large components that subdue a significant portion of the population cannot continue without those components overtaking the entire machine. It is a simple, almost elegant fact; something like a law of nature. But a nation that withholds its best ideals from some will end up losing them for all.
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Lightning Bjornsson* :evdonia_corner_emblem:
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kriykat

Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on Education
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/14/
The U.S. president’s cuts to education under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism are an effort to enforce totalitarianism in the minds of future generations. Questions are not to be asked, myths are to be enforced. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The…
#Politics #Analysis #CivilRights #History #HumanRights #Racism #RightWing #TrumpAdministration #AntiSemitism #BookBans #ChrisHedges #Dei #DonaldTrump #Education #EllenSchrecker #HannahArendt #HowardZinn #JasonStanley #Libertarianism #Propaganda #Totalitarianism

Consortium News · Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on EducationThe U.S. president's cuts to education under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism are an effort to enforce totalitarianism in the minds of future generations. Questions are not to be asked, myths are to be enforced.    By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The attacks on colleges and universities —
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Geriatric Gardener

This is what Sheldon Wolin called “inverted totalitarianism”

“The Billionaire War on Democracy: Tech Oligarchs’ Hostile Takeover of America”

by Don Knight in Midnight Manuscripts on Substack

“If you haven’t been paying attention to the tech billionaire movement to turn the U.S. government into a technocracy, now is the time to start—because it’s happening in real time”

open.substack.com/pub/donovanw

The Midnight Manuscripts · The Billionaire War on Democracy: The Tech Oligarchs’ Hostile Takeover of AmericaBy Don Knight
#Press#US#Technocracy
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Greg Dance

christinapagel.substack.com/p/

A historian on here wrote recently of how the 1920's Ku Klux Klan more or less ran the USA.
They ran politicians, bankers, financiers etc

Their mass marches with bands & huge banners were inspiring to Hitler who replicated for his own Nuremberg rallies.

Now its the time that the USA is repaid using the Hitler playbook on full state capture!

Diving into Data & Decision making · Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universitiesBy Christina Pagel
#hitler#tRUMP#totalitarianism
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Polylect

Ok, we're at #Weber's concept of #patrimonialism, we don't need to go to #Arendt's #totalitarianism (yet) to analyse the #UZA. That's good, ain't it?

"In its governmental guise, patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. It can be found in many countries, but its main contemporary exponent—at least until January 20, 2025—has been Vladimir Putin."
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

The Atlantic · One Word Describes TrumpBy Jonathan Rauch
#Trump#politicaltheory#corruption
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doboprobodyne

@Simon318ppm @urlyman

- I agree that:
- the fundamental question might be of almost existential importance to organised groups, and humans who wish to form and maintain them.
- finding common ground is essential, as is nurturing empathy in all parties.

- I sumbit that:
- enquiring minds might enjoy examining the findings (or what we might divine of them, for such firms, if they have any sense, have long since obfuscated their work) of Cambridge Analytica and their ilk: research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/f although please note that state-of-the-art circa 10 years ago may now be old hat.
- theologans are a fine source of information regarding tried-and-tested methods of creating inclusive "in-groups".
- lesser groups that depend upon cohesive thinking like cults, militaries, resistance or political groups, corporate entities, and so forth, are all worthy of consideration too. The real nuggets of gold are finding the "happy-clappy" groups that manage to absorb & bestow happiness upon their adversaries. Not sure where one finds such groups though (outside mathstodon.xyz obviously).

- I'd love to know if anyone has come across any "threads" that are interesting to pull at, or salient web-search terms that are a good start, in reading about such things.
- I'd be curious to know how folks (eg in NATO, CCP, etc) taking high-level geopolitical perspectives might view this problem.

#Peace#Love#War
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Rita, antifascist 🏴🦯🦯🦯

“The voices of these three pillars—facts, science, justice—are the bedrock of democracy: their disrespect, erosion, and then destruction lie on an autocratic continuum…the plan unfolds inexorably, as Martin Niemöller's poem reminds us. Silence has a cost.”

#fascism #totalitarianism #usa
ledevoir.com/opinion/chronique?

Le Devoir · Le prix du silenceL’autoritarisme mise sur la division, l’individuation et l’isolement. Une fois installé, il est dur à déloger.
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Purple🐘

«History shows that when governments claim the power to silence dissent—whether in the name of national security, border protection, or law and order—that power rarely remains limited. What starts as a crackdown on so-called “threats” quickly expands to include anyone who challenges those in power.» #USPolitics #FreedomOfSpeech #Totalitarianism #DomesticTerrorismClaim

counterpunch.org/2025/03/14/wh

CounterPunch.org · When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state. You can’t claim to value
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Hanna Arendt

Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: “Things must change — no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.” Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/44768/

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The above terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents viewed by The New York Times. Some ordered the removal of these words from public-facing websites, or ordered the elimination of other materials (including school curricula) in which they might be included.

In other cases, federal agency managers advised caution in the terms’ usage without instituting an outright ban. Additionally, the presence of some terms was used to automatically flag for review some grant proposals and contracts that could conflict with Mr. Trump’s executive orders.

The list is most likely incomplete. More agency memos may exist than those seen by New York Times reporters, and some directives are vague or suggest what language might be impermissible without flatly stating it.

All presidential administrations change the language used in official communications to reflect their own policies. It is within their prerogative, as are amendments to or the removal of web pages, which The Times has found has already happened thousands of times in this administration.

Still, the words and phrases listed here represent a marked — and remarkable — shift in the corpus of language being used both in the federal government’s corridors of power and among its rank and file. They are an unmistakable reflection of this administration’s priorities."

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0

The New York Times · The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under TrumpBy Karen Yourish
#USA#Trump#DEI
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