Empire Stumbling Toward Irrelevance – By Steve Kelly (Counterpunch) / May 21, 2024
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or committed Communist, but for people for whom the distinction between facts and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
– Hannah Arendt
With the Vietnam War six decades behind us, and the demise of the U.S.S.R. almost thirty years in the rear-view mirror, is American Imperialist society’s anti-communist dogmatism finally peaking?
It’s taken multiple generations of public-corporate-sponsored propaganda, gaslighting, false-flags and psyops to eradicate nearly all the “Communist” influence from the compromised worlds of tenured intellectuals and partisan organized labor. Obviously, this retreat came at a heavy cost.
Empire’s brain has been so dumbed down by censorship, pseudoscience, social media, surveillance technology, biblical literalism, and institutional corruption, that even the most thoughtful “post-Marxist” critics can’t seem to articulate a coherent 21st Century alternative to replace global capital’s neoliberal structure.
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