Source: corbettreport.com
Mattias Desmet is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. His theory of mass formation during the coronavirus crisis has become widely known and widely misunderstood since gaining mainstream attention. His new book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, lays out what mass formation is, how it develops, how it leads to totalitarianism, and what we must do to change the conditions that makes these mass formation events possible.
Show Notes:
The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet
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Dr. Michael Rectenwald | Resisting Totalitarianism: The Power of the Powerless
Source: gunsandbutter.org, michaelrectenwald.com
TOPICS:
- Post-totalitarianism
- Academic freedom v self-censorship and the elimination of free speech
- Post-modernist theory and social justice
- Traditional social justice v its current incarnation
- Characteristics of Stalinism and Maoism
- Revocation of the rights of speech and association
- Elimination of property rights
- Intersectionality or vectors of oppression in the social justice ranking system
- Challenge to individual rights
- Subjective truth backed by power
- Nihilism regarding objectivity
- Repressive Tolerance essay by Marcuse
- Classical liberalism v left totalitarianism
- Capitalists supporting socialism because they’re monopolists
- Socialism on the ground and corporate oligarchy at the top
- The left an unwitting foot soldier of the corporate globalists
- Ownership of goods and people
- Dissidents
- The aims of life
- Living within the truth
Aired: September 1, 2021
TOPICS:
- Post-totalitarianism
- Academic freedom v self-censorship and the elimination of free speech
- Post-modernist theory and social justice
- Traditional social justice v its current incarnation
- Characteristics of Stalinism and Maoism
- Revocation of the rights of speech and association
- Elimination of property rights
- Intersectionality or vectors of oppression in the social justice ranking system
- Challenge to individual rights
- Subjective truth backed by power
- Nihilism regarding objectivity
- Repressive Tolerance essay by Marcuse
- Classical liberalism v left totalitarianism
- Capitalists supporting socialism because they’re monopolists
- Socialism on the ground and corporate oligarchy at the top
- The left an unwitting foot soldier of the corporate globalists
- Ownership of goods and people
- Dissidents
- The aims of life
- Living within the truth
Aired: September 1, 2021
