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Authoritarianism is at heart of US capitalist 'liberal democracy' (with historian Aaron Good)

Geopolitical Economy Report

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The Real Reason d'Etre of Naziism

The real raison d'etre of naziism is to wipe out the left that's why the fact that they were willing to do that is why the german establishment supported them. The state says it's never not an emergency we always it's always an emergency and with exceptionism what you have is basically the state saying "I'm sovereign" so for carl schmitt  the other part of it is that he is sovereign who definitely decides whether this normal situation actually exists but a corollary to that is you also are sovereign when you're the person who says it's not an emergency. i write here is constitutionalist liberals can at most regulate the exception as precisely

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