and then answered with China.

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  • emizeko [they/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    I hate the word "totalitarianism" and the racist Arendt who helped popularize it in service of McCarthyism

    [looks around at gig workers and people selling plasma while NSA monitors every electronic communication and nothing is replicated in mass media unless it is individualistic and encourages profit seeking]

    gee yeah, it's so weird that the mode of production touches all aspects of one's life and determines your material conditions

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I just assume that people who lob around accusations of "authoritarianism" and "totalitarianism" instead of making specific criticisms are liberals and not worth my time.

      • emizeko [they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        to liberals it means "any exercise of power that I can't see directly benefitting me"