—Sheldon S. Wolin, Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, 2008, pp xxvii
... Inverted totalitarianism is different from classical forms of totalitarianism. It does not find its expression in a demagogue or charismatic leader but in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state. Inverted totalitarianism pays outward fealty to the facade of electoral politics, the Constitution, civil liberties, freedom of the press, the independence of the judiciary, and the iconography, traditions and language of American patriotism, but it has effectively seized all of the mechanisms of power to render the citizen impotent...
"... reducing or weakening health programs and social services, regimenting mass education for an insecure workforce threatened by the importation of low-wage workers," Wolin wrote. "Employment in a high-tech, volatile, and globalized economy is normally as precarious as during an old-fashioned depression. The result is that citizenship, or what remains of it, is practiced amidst a continuing state of worry. Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement." ...
—Sheldon S. Wolin, Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, 2008, pp xxvii
—Sheldon S. Wolin, Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, 2008, pp xxvii