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From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy

From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy

From the Iron Cage to the Golden Cage: The Class-Based Mutation of the Modern State and the Trap of Prosperity @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5333994
#GoldenCage #Neoliberalism #StateTheory #CrisisOfDemocracy #ClassAnalysis #LateModernity #Governmentality #Hegemony #Populism #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #SurveillanceCapitalism #MaxWeber #MichelFoucault #AntonioGramsci #ParticipatoryDemocracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gob_PnR4fI

#DiEM25 (and #DemocracyNow) #MERA25

#MelanieSchweizer & #YannisVaroufakis Expose the Truth Behind Europe's War Agenda

As #Europe gathered for the #MunichSecuritySummit , Yanis V and #MERA25 candidate Melanie Schweitzer issue a stark warning:
The Europe peace project is being hijacked by warmongers, #corporate interests and rising #authoritarian forces.

Among many key point, Melanie said #Germany's situation is dire: a blatant Attack on #freedomofassembly, #freedomofspeech, #crisisofdemocracy, etc. She also said the #GreenPartyGermany 🤢 , #DieLinke , moderates like the #SPD, etc have taken over the rhetoric and policies of the #farright (EX: #FrancescaAlbanese is banned from speaking in Germany, etc) It sounds like a nightmare.

#EUisNotaWarUnion #FIGHTBACK #extrêmedroite #FCKAfD #FCKNZS #Election2025

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Seeing the positive blurbs about #JimmyCarter make this Hannah Arendt quote and meme come to mind. He supported genocide and populated his cabinet with people from the Trilateral Commission who wanted to bring the Third World model of mass apathy to the USA... People need a reality check as to what they expect #HarrisAndWalz to do after winning an election. What's their #Project2025 or #TrilateralCommissionBook #CrisisOfDemocracy
https://chomsky.info/priorities01/
#ArendtOnConstantLying

The Trilateral report: The crisis of democracy

In 1973, David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission, a self-described group of "private citizens" of Western Europe, Japan and North America.
It commissioned Harvard centre director, Samuel P Huntington, to co-author a joint U.S.-Europe-Japan commissioned report, entitled, 'The crisis of democracy: Report on the governability of democracies to the Trilateral Commission'

The 1960s' 'democratic surge', said the report, had incited demands from the undeserving:
An 'excess of democracy'

Huntington went to great pains to explain that a large degree of non-involvement among marginal groups is required if democracy is to function:

To save democracy, said the report, democracy must be limited. The 'excess of democracy' must give way to 'desirable limits to [its] extension'.

A better balance must be struck between government and the "oppositional" force of the media.

First-Amendment protection of the media should be re-evaluated in the 'broader interests of society and government'.

The government's 'right and ability to withhold information at the source' should be exercised and, in the absence of voluntary journalistic restraint, 'the alternative could well be regulation by the government'

America must limit the education of marginal groups, said Huntington. Prior to World War II, only 40 per cent of the population was educated beyond elementary level; by 1972, that figure was 75 per cent.

The report summed up the threat thus: education raises political consciousness, which raises demands, which make democratic government unworkable.

To solve this problem: 'A decline in the saliency of school integration, welfare programs, law enforcement [would bring about] a decline in their group consciousness and hence their political participation'.

Expansion of higher education must be curtailed, the report advised.

Education must relate to 'economic development and future job opportunities' or 'lower job expectations'. And rather than allow workers' participation, employers should 'opt for job redesign'.

#trilateralreport #crisisofdemocracy
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Next: Education as a Commodity
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-excess-of-democracy-how-corporations-killed-the-campus,15165