"Wolin lays bare the realities of our bankrupt democracy, the causes behind the decline of American empire & the rise of a new & terrifying configuration of corporate power he calls 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺."

@ChrisLynnHedges, 2015:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/sheldon-wolin-and-inverted-totalitarianism/

" #InvertedTotalitarianism is different from classical forms of totalitarianism. It does not find its expression in a demagogue or charismatic leader but in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state."

"Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement."

#InvertedTotalitarianism "is “the antithesis of constitutional power.” It is designed to create instability to keep a citizenry off balance and passive."

"The citizen is irrelevant. He or she is nothing more than a spectator, allowed to vote and then forgotten once the carnival of elections ends and corporations and their lobbyists get back to the business of ruling."

"Our system of #invertedtotalitarianism will avoid harsh and violent measures of control “as long as …dissent remains ineffectual. The government does not need to stamp out dissent. The uniformity of imposed public opinion through the corporate media does a very effective job.”"

"But, should the population—steadily stripped of its most basic rights, including the right to privacy, and increasingly impoverished and bereft of hope—become restive, #invertedtotalitarianism will become as brutal and violent as past totalitarian states."