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The English version of this article was first published in 1957. The journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique republished it 60 years later in 2017. In this essay, Franz L. Neumann discusses the role of anxiety in politics. The article asks: How does it happen that the masses sell their souls to leaders and follow them blindly? On what does the power of attraction of leaders over masses rest? What are the historical situations in which this identification of leader and masses is successful, and what view of history do the men have who accept leaders? For answering these questions, the author suggests a combination of political economy, Freudian political psychology, and ideology critique. He sees anxiety in the context of alienation. Alienation is analysed as a multidimensional phenomenon consisting of economic, political, social and psychological alienation. Neumann introduces the notions of Caesaristic identification, institutionalised anxiety and persecutory anxiety. The essay shows that fascism remains an actual threat in capitalist societies.

Medea Vox, an academic podcast. Episode 24: Comics have been around for more than a hundred years. For a long time, comics were mainly viewed as light entertainment for kids, but today they can also be seen as an aesthetically ambitious art form. But are comics also a politically significant medium? In this Medea Vox episode, comics artist Daria Bogdanska and professor Magnus Nilsson talk about comics and politics. Can comics be used to criticize and think about society in new ways? Can comics articulate new voices, or reach out to those who are not taking part in political life? And which are the potentials and limitations of comics as a political art form? ; Podcast

Since politics among the top Soviet leaders is vigilantly screened from outsiders, serious studies must be based on indirect evidence. Analysis of published hidden messages provides a major source of such evidence, since esoteric communication has a key role in contention over high policy & questions of power in the USSR For example, in 1955 publication of a telegram which incorrectly addressed Khrushchev with Stalin's famous title of `general secretary', when analyzed in conjunction with related evidence, enaged the inference to be drawn that Khrushchev was bidding for dictorial power. Subsequent events have tended to confirm this hypo. IPSA.

Huque reviews the book 'Decentralization and Local Politics: Readings in Indian Government and Politics, 2' edited by S. N. Jha and P. C. Mathur.

"Ben Ansell, one of the world's leading experts on the dilemmas facing modern democracies, vividly illustrates how our collective goals-- democracy, equality, solidarity, security, and prosperity-- are undermined by political traps and why today's political landscape is so tumultuous. We want equality, but we are loathe to give away our own wealth. We want solidarity but we are much better at receiving it than offering it. We want security but not if it constrains our freedom. And we want to end the climate crisis but we also want a prosperous economy. In every case, we want a collective goal, but are undermined by our individual actions. Our aims are altruistic, our actions governed by self-interest. Ansell then comes full circle and through brilliant storytelling and pathbreaking research vividly illustrates how we maneuver through the traps of the messy, complicated world of politics that block common sense solutions to the just, equitable, prosperous, and environmentally sane society we all want."

During the 1960s and 1970s civil rights workers were murdered, black Americans were still being denied the right to vote (still are in some places), a married woman couldn't get a credit card in her own name, and even for the young male revolutionaries of the time, equality and justice didn't mean the women with whom they worked, studied, and slept. If Obama softens the image, leaves behind his contained manner (Some call it uptight or arrogant, but would it look like that if he were white?), and exchanges his $2,000 suit, crisp white shirt, and perfectly knotted tie for a more casual look, he risks becoming a reminder of those other black men, those guys who speak black English and before whom women clutch their purses more tightly to their sides. This dynamic emblematizes the nexus between race and gender in U.S. politics, which came to the fore in the 2008 election. Adapted from the source document.

Thinking psychoanalytically about the nature of social exclusion involves a self-questioning on the part of the interpreter. While we may all have some experiences of having been subject to stereotyping, silencing, discrimination and exclusion, it is also the case that, as social beings, we all, to some extent, participate in upholding these practices, often unconsciously.The book poses the question of how psychoanalysis can be used to think about the invisible and subtle processes of power over symbolic representation, in the context of stereotyping and dehumanization: What forces govern the state of affairs that determine who is an 'I' and who is an 'it' in the public sphere?Thinking in terms of 'containment', a communication which is denied a social space for expression can be said to be actively stripped of meaning. Through its original contribution of attending to, and interpreting material that so far had seemed meaningless, psychoanalysis demonstrates a capacity to reinstall meaning where none was before - but how are such acts performed on a social level?When common responsibility is displaced onto a suitable class or group and its representatives, the end point is reached when the individual is objectified and the social aspects of the process are no longer recognized. His or her position becomes an illegitimate one from which to speak - the person's subjectivity is excluded. The book poses the question of how we can conceive of the 'how' and the 'why' of this phenomenon and of possible counter-actions.