"The long campaign against Julian and WikiLeaks is a window into the collapse of the rule of law, the rise of what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls our system of "inverted totalitarianism," a form of totalitarianism that maintains the fictions of the old capitalist democracy, including its institutions, iconography, patriotic symbols and rhetoric, but internally has surrendered total control to the dictates of global corporations"
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Chris Hedges, Revisiting the case of Julian Assange and the reality of the "rule of law", Salon (15 June 2021)
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Sheldon Wolin
Sheldon S. Wolin (August 4, 1922 – October 21, 2015) was an American political philosopher. He was professor emeritus at Princeton University and a writer on contemporary politics.
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