Requiem for the American Dream
Language: English
Wall Street Zuccotti Park american economics american politics big banks citizens united concentrated wealth corporate class documentary film dodd frank dodd-frank economic inequality income inequality interviews liberalism linguistics occupy wall street pop philosophy profit over people republicans social inequality social studies socialism us economy us politics we are the 99% wealth accumulation wealth distribution wealth redistribution
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: Mar 13, 2017
Description:
"During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, it was bad–much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this somehow, an expectation that things were going to get better . . ." —from Requiem for the American DreamIn his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky devotes a chapter to...