Moving Beyond Fear: Upending the Security Tales in Capitalism, Fascism, and Democracy (Universalizing Resistance)

The Frightened Society presents a compelling case that hegemonic elites are manufacturing and stoking fear in the United States as a pivotal strategy to legitimize their militarism and political authority, and this fear has then become a dominant means of repressing democracy and perpetuating elite rule and a militarized capitalism. This form of elite manipulation resonates in the general population because of critically important economic, social, cultural and psychological conditions today, of which the authors explore in depth. This and the authors’ revealing of a growing public counter-reaction make this book a must-read in today’s fractured times.