Capitalism, hegemony and violence in the age of drones / Norman Pollack.
Pollack, Norman, author.
2018
JZ1312 .P65 2018eb
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Title Capitalism, hegemony and violence in the age of drones / Norman Pollack.
Author Pollack, Norman, author.
ISBN 9783319648880 (electronic book)
3319648888 (electronic book)
9783319648873
331964887X
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number JZ1312 .P65 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.101
Summary This book offers a critical analysis of the rise of the US to global hegemony against a background of increased erosion of democracy and rule of law, and a rising linear pattern of near-absolute capitalist development. The author argues that the significant shrinkage of the ideological spectrum globally, as a result of worrisome levels of business and government interpenetration, has created a dangerous 'prefascist configuration' whereby unthinkable levels of violence have been normalized through the use of technologies such as drones, increasingly condoned even by 'liberal' groups and the so-called political left. Using the example of the Obama administration and its increased reliance on drone assassinations, the volume makes a case for the dangers that lie in today's unique convergence of lack of transparency in government, business-government interpenetration, informal social regimentation, and militarization of capitalism.
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1. Introduction: Moral-Political Philosophy, A Spectrum Shift Rightward
2. Advancing Monopoly Capitalism: A Totalitarian Mental Landscape
3. Hierarchical Structuring of the Social Order: Ideological Implications
4. Interpenetration: Business-Government Co-Partnership
5. Comparative Probing of Fascism: Japan and America
6. Liberal Dimensions of Structural Uniformity: Capitalism and National Power
7. Framework of Corporatism: Contrasts in Leadership (FDR vs. Obama)
8. Political Reflections: Education of a (Sometime) Radical
9. Master of Counterrevolution: Obama—Character and Policies
10. Butchers of the Beltway: Anatomy of “Legitimated Violence”
11. American/Israeli War Crimes: National Policies Engendering Fear
12. Contempt for the Law: Presidential Subterfuge
13. Nadir of Public Morality: The Age of the Drone
14. The Drone and Aberrant Government: Normalization of the Unthinkable
15. On Distance and Disconnection: Entering a Moral Black Hole
16. “Greater Leverage”: Military-Speak for Imperialism
17. A Moment in American Policy: The Death of Anwar al-Awlaki
18. Transgressions of Moral Law: Enlarged Scope of Legal Authority
19. Stirrings Toward Usurpation: Defying the Rule of Law
20. Echoes of the Cold War: A Strategy of Pre-Emptive Strikes
21. Epilogue:  Threads Left Unexplored: Objectification and Bureaucratization.

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