consider also: *Adorno’s, "Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda" *(1951) http://freudians.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Adorno_Freudian_Theory_Pattern_Fascist_Propaganda.pdf and *The Authoritarian Personality Revisited: Reading Adorno in the Age of Trump* by Peter E. Gordon, boundary2, June 15, 2016 https://www.boundary2.org/2016/06/peter-gordon-the-authoritarian-personality-revisited-reading-adorno-in-the-age-of-trump/ both referenced in: *Are We in Denial about Denial?* by Rodrigo Nunes, Public Books, Nov. 25 https://www.publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial/
On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 11:29 AM Michael Meeropol <[email protected]> wrote: > think this is really good *This Marxist philosopher foresaw the rise of Trumpism more than 80 years ago * > https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/trumpism/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6023 On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 1:23 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > My takeaway is the idea that Trump is an artist in the same way Hitler > was--a bad artist who nonetheless concentrates and invokes an aesthetic > capable of inducing "the masses" to forget their self-interest and > sacrifice themselves to a false ideal. The ideal is *not* false in that > it invokes and encourages a realistic awareness of ethnic and sexual > privilege, but it *is* false in that it sells the idea that if you > abandon logic and fact and immerse yourself in the ecstasy of the > abundantly provided spectacle, you will be safe. > . . . > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#4222): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/4222 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/78761015/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
