Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism Audiobook (Free)

Democracy is struggling in the us — by now this statement is nearly cliche. But what if the country is certainly no longer a democracy whatsoever? In Democracy Included, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed right into a new and strange kind of politics hybrid, one where economic and state forces are conjoined and practically unbridled? Can the country check its descent into what the author conditions ‘inverted totalitarianism’?

Wolin portrays a nation where residents are about Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism politically uninterested and submissive – and where elites are eager to preserve them that method. At best the nation has become a ‘maintained democracy’ in which the open public is sheperded, not really sovereign. At worst it is a place where corporate power no more answers to convey settings. Wolin makes apparent that today’s America is certainly by no means morally or politically much like totalitarian areas like Nazi Germany, yet he warns that unchecked economic power dangers verging on total power and offers its unnerving pathologies.

Wolin examines the misconceptions and mythmaking that justify today’s politics, the search for an ever-expanding overall economy, as well as the perverse attractions of an endless war on terror. He argues passionately that democracy’s best hope lies in residents themselves learning anew to exercise power at the local level.

Democracy Incorporated is one of the most worrying diagnoses of America’s political ills to emerge in decades. It is sure to be always a lightening rod for political issue for years to come.

The book is published by Princeton University Press.