Interview with Gary Null, June 13, 2024

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.