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  1. > Davos Man was originally used by the Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington in a 2004 essay describing a new class of enriched globalists who are only loyal to themselves.
    counterpunch.org/2025/01/24/tr
    #DavosMan !? I'm suprised #SamuelHuntington came up with something that doesn't make me retch: like South Africa as a "satisfied society"... #DanielWarner
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  2. The 100th birthday of the "Human Rights Administration" president whose concern was:

    > How do we return to the good old days when “Truman, Acheson, Forrestal, Marshall, Harriman, and Lovett” could unite on a policy of global intervention and domestic militarism as our “common purpose,” with no interference from the undisciplined rabble?

    tiksi.net/channel/bsmall2?mid=

    chomsky.info/priorities01/

    #JimmyCarter #HumanRightsAdministration #TrilateralComiission #SamuelHuntington by #NoamChomsky

  3. #FareedZakaria on the guy that used "shorthand" math-like equations to "show" South Africa as a "satisfied society."
    > ... the greatest political scientist of the last half-century... Huntington is most famous for "The #ClashOfCivilizations but his scholarly reputation properly rests on his earlier work. His analysis of political order had immediate, real-world applications...
    Chomsky laughs at the guy
    fareedzakaria.com/columns/2009
    #sycophant #SamHuntington #SamualPHuntington #SamuelHuntington

  4. > why is #SamHuntington still talking about consociationalism, when his own theory tells us it cannot happen? #Consociationalism .. involving negotiation among elites.. would give #SouthAfrica a democratic facade without changing the basic inequities of #apartheid. It would include Black faces in leadership, but would require massive repression of Black aspirations.. continue to restrict popular participation decision-making at all levels.
    thecrimson.com/article/1987/11
    #SamuelHuntington

  5. > The attack on Dr. Huntington.. led by Serge Lang, a Yale mathematician.. on leave at Harvard, who.. gathered and sent to all Academy members over the past year what he calls ''a ton of documentation'' challenging Dr. Huntington's scholarly work, as ' #pseudoscience '' and ''nonsense.''.. he used mathematical equations as a ''shorthand way'' of summing up a complex argument rather than as a rigorous quantitative tool.
    nytimes.com/1987/04/29/us/prom
    #SamuelHuntington #SergeLang #PoliticalScience