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Full Description
This book offers a critical analysis of the rise of the US to global hegemony against a background of increased erosion of democracy and rule of law, and a rising linear pattern of near-absolute capitalist development. The author argues that the significant shrinkage of the ideological spectrum globally, as a result of worrisome levels of business and government interpenetration, has created a dangerous 'prefascist configuration' whereby unthinkable levels of violence have been normalized through the use of technologies such as drones, increasingly condoned even by 'liberal' groups and the so-called political left. Using the example of the Obama administration and its increased reliance on drone assassinations, the volume makes a case for the dangers that lie in today's unique convergence of lack of transparency in government, business-government interpenetration, informal social regimentation, and militarization of capitalism.
Contents
1. Introduction: Moral-Political Philosophy, A Spectrum Shift Rightward .- 2. Advancing Monopoly Capitalism: A Totalitarian Mental Landscape .- 3. Hierarchical Structuring of the Social Order: Ideological Implications .- 4. Interpenetration: Business-Government Co-Partnership .- 5. Comparative Probing of Fascism: Japan and America .- 6. Liberal Dimensions of Structural Uniformity: Capitalism and National Power .- 7. Framework of Corporatism: Contrasts in Leadership (FDR vs. Obama) .- 8. Political Reflections: Education of a (Sometime) Radical .- 9. Master of Counterrevolution: Obama—Character and Policies .- 10. Butchers of the Beltway: Anatomy of "Legitimated Violence" .- 11. American/Israeli War Crimes: National Policies Engendering Fear .- 12. Contempt for the Law: Presidential Subterfuge .- 13. Nadir of Public Morality: The Age of the Drone .- 14. The Drone and Aberrant Government: Normalization of the Unthinkable .- 15. On Distance and Disconnection: Entering a Moral Black Hole .- 16. "Greater Leverage": Military-Speak for Imperialism .- 17. A Moment in American Policy: The Death of Anwar al-Awlaki .- 18. Transgressions of Moral Law: Enlarged Scope of Legal Authority .- 19. Stirrings Toward Usurpation: Defying the Rule of Law .- 20. Echoes of the Cold War: A Strategy of Pre-Emptive Strikes .- 21. Epilogue: Threads Left Unexplored: Objectification and Bureaucratization.
