http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/04/24/fascistic-governments-only-the-faces-change/ love in the time of cultural studies Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:56:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/04/24/fascistic-governments-only-the-faces-change/#comment-96915 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:41:46 +0000 http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/04/24/fascistic-governments-only-the-faces-change/#comment-96915 [...] Certainly, in my present, grey suits run a technocracy that adheres, slavishly, to a set of ideas based on a hierarchy of race, ethnicity, culture, class, gender and sexuality about how people should be governed and what their lives and deaths are worth. The Stasi were a most extreme face of governmental/regimental technologies that can and will be deployed by any state, and these days the technologies of surveillance, censorship, torture and incarceration-without-trial are being used across the liberal-democratic world. Suspected ‘terrorists’ in capitalist liberal democracies are treated in comparable ways to ‘enemies of the people’ in socialist totalitarian states. [...] […] Certainly, in my present, grey suits run a technocracy that adheres, slavishly, to a set of ideas based on a hierarchy of race, ethnicity, culture, class, gender and sexuality about how people should be governed and what their lives and deaths are worth. The Stasi were a most extreme face of governmental/regimental technologies that can and will be deployed by any state, and these days the technologies of surveillance, censorship, torture and incarceration-without-trial are being used across the liberal-democratic world. Suspected ‘terrorists’ in capitalist liberal democracies are treated in comparable ways to ‘enemies of the people’ in socialist totalitarian states. […]

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