Democracy, Incorporated by Sheldon S. Wolin--has anyone read it?

[raccoon]

I'm trying to get through it. He has some good ideas, but the book is a mofo to read.


(Princeton Univ. Press, 2008. ISBN-10: 0691135665)

If democracy means more than occasional elections and protection of those rights that are compatible with economic and political elites' interests, Wolin's analysis of our democratic predicament is shocking, solid, and fundamentally correct.
(C.P. Waligorski Choice )

Of the many books I've read or skimmed in the past seven years that attempted to get inside the social and political debacles of the present, none has had the chilling clarity and historical discernment of Sheldon S. Wolin's Democracy Incorporated. Building on his fifty years as a political theorist and proponent of radical democracy, Wolin here extends his concern with the extinguishing of the political and its replacement by fraudulent simulations of democratic process.
(Jonathan Crary Artforum )

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/0691135665

[joeybee12]

1. Geesh...even those two short reviews are tough to get through!

:P