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Buying American stuff is "un-American?" (Original Post) Archae Oct 2013 OP
Faux News supporting "inverted totalitarianism". imagine that! coldmountain Oct 2013 #1
 

coldmountain

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1. Faux News supporting "inverted totalitarianism". imagine that!
Sat Oct 12, 2013, 05:33 PM
Oct 2013

"While the versions of totalitarianism represented by Nazism and Fascism consolidated power by suppressing liberal political practices that had sunk only shallow cultural roots, Superpower represents a drive towards totality that draws from the setting where liberalism and democracy have been established for more than two centuries. It is Nazism turned upside-down, “inverted totalitarianism.” While it is a system that aspires to totality, it is driven by an ideology of the cost-effective rather than of a “master race” (Herrenvolk), by the material rather than the “ideal.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism

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