Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Whistleblower David McBride jailed Related Australian troops: killing civilians for practice

It is not a radical analysis, but it  is an important development/attempt to maintain American hegemony, supremacy over China and stability at home .

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats... — Wilhelm Reich,  Listen, Little Man!

Rules of the game

“None of the chapters is a polemic. Rather, for the most part, the book constitutes a simple statement of bald facts of which many western readers will be shamefully ignorant .”

In social life there are  degrees   of power and degrees of falsity.   The more the masses of people adhere to truth, the less power-mongering there will be;  the more imbued with irrational illusions the masses of people are, the more widespread and brutal individual power-mongering will be. —Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism From the same source: Open avowal of dictatorship is much less dangerous than sham democracy. The first one can fight; sham democracy is insidious. It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator in history was nothing but the accentuation of already existing state ideas which he had only to exaggerate in order to gain power.

A ‘group’ that “held an attachment to forms of hope that placed faith in the capitalist system to fulfil their dreams . “I develop a political economy of emotion and hope that traces how capitalist systems continue to capture the attention of the very people harmed by them.”  I would use ‘forms of the capitalist system’ rather than ‘capitalist systems’. There is only one globalised capitalist system, albeit with different form in different countries.