Authoritarianism is at heart of US capitalist 'liberal democracy' (with historian Aaron Good)
Geopolitical Economy Report
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Is Every Place Totalitarian?
Hannah Arendt's work was sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom. She wrote about two kinds of power: political power, persuasion through arguments and democratic power. But externally, you have coercion by force, more violence; this is called "dark power" And if a deep state can be exercised covertly in ways that are not visible to people above it, then society will be better off as a result," he says.
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