Orwell’s press card portrait, 1943

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. Power is not a means; it is an end … The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power…”
~ George Orwell Continue reading American Authoritarianism, Coming 2017 →

“Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?” ~ James Russell Lowell Continue reading Articles About American Authoritarianism →

“Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism,” was published in Counterpunch, June 19, 2015, by Henry Giroux, the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. Continue reading Major Ideas in Henry Giroux’s “Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge into Authoritarianism” →

… I’m afraid … that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
~ Sen. Huey Long

On the eve of the 2016 election, The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent penned, “A final plea: The case against Trump’s dangerous authoritarianism—in one chart.” (Virtually every major newspaper in America, including conservative ones, endorsed Hillary Clinton.)  Continue reading The Washington Post: “…The case against Trump’s dangerous authoritarianism …” →

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. Continue reading Michael Brenner’s: “How Autocracy Will Come To America” →