Google Archipelago Quotes

“Socialism has been a ruling-class production all along. That’s a fact, not a theory.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.” —J.S. Mill.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“I first became disturbed by the grossly differential treatment of leftist political criminality when I tried to research it. I saw the evidence of buried and ignored evidence—that academics and other scholars had expunged, scrubbed and utterly extirpated leftist political criminality from the records in their fields. And it continues to this day. Naturally, I only began to notice the history and the coverups after I had been released from the iron-curtain grip of leftist ideology.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“If being a Nazi today is rightly deemed a vile and monstrous identification, then why is it not a disgrace, why is it not abominable to call oneself a progressive or a communist?”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“During the great trials in Moscow, the procurator Andrei Vyshinsky, who was an intellectual with a traditional classical training, threw himself into a veritable frenzy of animalization: “Shoot these rabid dogs! Death to this gang who hide their ferocious teeth, their eagle claws, from the people! Down with that vulture Trotsky, from whose mouth a bloody venom drips, putrefying the great ideals of Marxism! Let’s put these liars out of harm’s way, these miserable pygmies who dance around rotting carcasses! Down with these abject animals! Let’s put an end once and for all to these miserable hybrids of foxes and pigs, these stinking corpses! Let their horrible squeals finally come to an end! Let’s exterminate the mad dogs of capitalism, who want to tear to pieces the flower of our new Soviet nation! Let’s push the bestial hatred they bear our leaders back down their own throats!” (Qtd. In The Black Book of Communism, p. 750.)”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“Watch out for words like “equity, diversity and inclusion,” or even “the People,” “the common good,” “the general welfare,” and “brotherhood of man.” When in the mouths of politicos, these are the watchwords of totalitarianism”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“This made crime much easier: The informer, the torturer, and the NKVD executioner did not denounce, cause suffering, or kill people; they merely eliminated some sort of abstraction that was not beneficial to the common good.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“Diversity, equity and inclusion: this is the new language of totalitarianism. If you think such a notion far-fetched, find the watch-words of Soviet and Sino-Communist totalitarianism and compare them with this new set. Before “diversity,” “equity” and “inclusion,” the terms were “equality,” “the people,” “the common good,” and so forth.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“Whenever you hear the words “inclusive,” “diverse,” and “equitable” (or diversity, equity, and inclusion), be ready for surveillance, punishment of the “privileged,” sacrifice of national citizens to global interests, and the labeling as “dangerous” and marking for (virtual) elimination those supposed members or leaders of “hate groups” who oppose such measures.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“Every trajectory may be digitized and collected and may include almost every action undertaken on the way, possibly even mental operations.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom

“Human corporal bodies may be registered as machine-readable code and processed by computer networks fed by digital cameras and numerous other inputs of digital information gathering.”
― Michael Rectenwald, Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom