Many thanks to Gary Null for inviting me to appear on The Progresive Commentary Hour. We discussed:

* continuities between the political economy of 1930s Nazi Germany and the political economy of the West since 2020;

* emergency powers and the incremental legislation of totalitarianism;

* the attack on the working and middle classes;

* the production of ideological conformity;

* the failure of the professions to challenge power;

* euthanasia and eugenics;

* health surveillance, ecopolitics, hijacking conscience;

* discontinuities between the two eras;

* the preference of the transnational ruling class for totalitarianism in moments of acute capitalist crisis;

* the plan to roll out Chinese-style technocracy in the West;

* the “Covid-19” operation;

* the “gain of function” narrative as an element of perception management;

* technocracy and the Internet of Things;

* Sheldon Wolin’s notion of “inverted totalitarianism”; and

* the role of the media in Nazi Germany and today.

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