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Sohrab Ahmari: “Wokism is disappearing in the United States, good riddance!”

2024-02-18T15:50:56.892Z

Highlights: Sohrab Ahmari is a conservative American intellectual of Iranian origin, converted to Catholicism. He defends illiberal conservatism and opposes the omnipotence of the market. According to him, Wokism is in decline and what is brewing is a second wave. A French edition of his book “ Tyranny, Inc. ” will be published on March 14 by Salvator. To discover Listen to the club Le Club Le Figaro Idées with Eugénie Bastié LE FIGARO.


INTERVIEW - Sohrab Ahmari is a conservative American intellectual of Iranian origin, converted to Catholicism. He defends illiberal conservatism and opposes the omnipotence of the market. According to him, Wokism is in decline and what is brewing is a second wave...


Sohrab Ahmari founded the online magazine

Compact,

which rejects libertarianism on both the right and the left.

A French edition of his book “

Tyranny, Inc.

” will be published on

March 14 by Salvator.

To discover

  • PODCAST - Listen to the club Le Club Le Figaro Idées with Eugénie Bastié

LE FIGARO.

- In your book

Tyranny, Inc.

you describe a new form of tyranny emerging from the private sector... What do you mean by that

?

SOHRAB AHMARI.

-

Throughout the West, but especially in the "Anglosphere", people are used to seeing coercion only as something emanating from governments.

This is a poor vision of tyranny, and it completely fails to describe our current reality: in fact, we are also drowning in coercion in the private sector, in our lives as workers and consumers.

And precisely because our dominant neoliberal ideology treats these areas of life as “private,” we often cannot challenge the coercion we face using politics…

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Source: lefigaro

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