暴政的阴影：在独裁时代捍卫民主

English | September 24th, 2024 | ISBN: 1771624248 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 12.44 MB

Bestselling historian and author Ken McGoogan delves into dictatorships of the twentieth century to sound this crucial alarm about the possibility of democratic collapse in the United States and its implications for Canada.

Twentieth-century novels such as George Orwell's 1984 and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale produced visions of future dystopia that rang with echoes of past tyrannies. Always implied was a warning that history's worst chapters are never truly closed, and that we must not fail—as many of our forebears did—to recognize that the threat of totalitarianism cannot simply be wished away.

Awakening to Invasion, an alarming and engrossing work of non-fiction from acclaimed Canadian author Ken McGoogan, draws on this sense of looping history to show how figures like Donald Trump replay many aspects of the authoritarianism that spread in the middle of the last century. Calling not only on Orwell and Atwood, but also on H.G. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Jack London, and Hannah Arendt, McGoogan traces the ways democracy succumbed to paranoia, polarization, scapegoating and demagoguery less than a hundred years ago. These same forces, he argues, are now driving a far-right movement in the United States that seems devoted to using Trump's warped charisma as a "wrecking ball" to clear the way for autocracy that closely resembles the dictatorships that stoked the Second World War.

With this prospect, McGoogan's central questions become all the more pressing: How should Canadians respond, officially and individually, to the possibility of democratic collapse in our powerful neighbour to the south? Is talk of manifest destiny from right-wing American firebrands like Tucker Carlson just chatter for the sake of notoriety? Or is it a hint of the expansionist urges that always lie at the heart of authoritarianism, and that may one day point the American military machine in our direction on the pretext of "liberating" us?

In the cautionary spirit of earlier visionary works, Awakening to Invasion offers a galvanizing image of a dark possible future, as well as an urgent call to act in the belief that we still have the time and ability to ward it off.

英文| 2024年9月24日|国际标准图书编号：1771624248 | 320页|真正的EPUB | 12.44 MB 畅销书历史学家和作家肯·麦高根深入研究了二十世纪的独裁政权，对美国民主崩溃的可能性及其对加拿大的影响发出了至关重要的警报。 20世纪的小说，如乔治·奥威尔的《1984》和玛格丽特·阿特伍德的《使女的故事》，描绘了未来反乌托邦的景象，与过去的暴政遥相呼应。总是暗示着一个警告，即历史上最糟糕的篇章永远不会真正结束，我们不能像我们的许多祖先那样，认识到极权主义的威胁不能简单地通过愿望消除。 加拿大著名作家肯·麦高根（Ken McGoogan）的《入侵觉醒》（Awaken to Invasion）是一部令人震惊且引人入胜的非虚构作品，它利用这种历史循环的感觉，展示了唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）等人物如何重演上世纪中叶蔓延的威权主义的许多方面。麦高根不仅呼吁奥威尔和阿特伍德，还呼吁H.G.威尔斯、叶夫根尼·扎米亚廷、杰克·伦敦和汉娜·阿伦特，他追溯了不到一百年前民主是如何屈服于偏执、两极分化、替罪羊和蛊惑人心的。他认为，这些力量现在正在推动美国的一场极右翼运动，这场运动似乎致力于利用特朗普扭曲的魅力作为“破坏球”，为专制扫清道路，这种专制与引发第二次世界大战的独裁政权非常相似。 随着这一前景的出现，麦高根的核心问题变得更加紧迫：加拿大人应该如何正式和单独地应对我们强大的南方邻国民主崩溃的可能性？像塔克·卡尔森这样的美国右翼煽动者谈论天命，难道只是为了臭名昭著而喋喋不休吗？还是说，这是一种扩张主义冲动的暗示，这种冲动一直是威权主义的核心，有朝一日可能会以“解放”我们为借口，将美国军事机器指向我们的方向？ 在早期富有远见的作品的警示精神中，《觉醒入侵》为黑暗的未来提供了一个鼓舞人心的形象，并紧急呼吁我们采取行动，相信我们仍然有时间和能力抵御它。

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