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In reply to the discussion: C. Wright Mills: Sociological Imagination and the Power Elite [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)4. Exactly. Thus all the propaganda instead of knowledge.
Maria Gilardin reports the people of the US have been subjected to the most costly, unparalleled, 3/4 century propaganda effort by corporations in order to expand corporate rights, limit democracy and destroy the unions. Her webcast covers the history from WWI to Reagan. It centers on Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda. When Noam Chomsky dedicated his book "Manufacturing Consent" to the memory of Alex Carey, he said that the Australian sociologist would have written the definitive history of propaganda in the US, had he lived to complete his work. The 20th century, Carey says, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy.
Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy
The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.
John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.
Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.
This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
SOURCE: http://tucradio.org/new.html
Here's the first part (scroll down at the link for the second part) on Carey:
http://tucradio.org/AlexCarey_ONE.mp3
You are most welcome, antigop. Thank you for grokking.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ― Frederick Douglass
Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda
The Attack on Democracy
The 20th century, said Carey, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. And, in his manuscript, unpublished during his life time, he described that history, going back to World War I and ending with the Reagan era. Carey covers the little known role of the US Chamber of Commerce in the McCarthy witch hunts of post WWII and shows how the continued campaign against "Big Government" plays an important role in bringing Reagan to power.
John Pilger called Carey "a second Orwell", Noam Chomsky dedicated his book, Manufacturing Consent, to him. And even though TUC Radio runs our documentary based on Carey's manuscript at least every two years and draws a huge response each time, Alex Carey is still unknown.
Given today's spotlight on corporations that may change. It is not only the Occupy movement that inspired me to present this program again at this time. By an amazing historic coincidence Bill Moyers and Charlie Cray of Greenpeace have just added the missing chapter to Carey's analysis. Carey's manuscript ends in 1988 when he committed suicide. Moyers and Cray begin with 1971 and bring the corporate propaganda project up to date.
This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
SOURCE: http://tucradio.org/new.html
Here's the first part (scroll down at the link for the second part) on Carey:
http://tucradio.org/AlexCarey_ONE.mp3
You are most welcome, antigop. Thank you for grokking.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ― Frederick Douglass
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A class project -- organizing student protests@ '81 Reagan Inaugur - earned me an A and an FBI File.
leveymg
Jan 2016
#5
''We have more will than wallet.'' -- George Herbert Walker Bush inaugural address
Octafish
Jan 2016
#8
One thing I know: Mills wrote about the Military Industrial Complex before there was such a term.
Octafish
Jan 2016
#13
The elites murdered Caesar, overthrew the Republic, and did themselves in for greed.
Octafish
Jan 2016
#14
Power Elite was assigned reading in my poli sci days. Read this from Robert Reich:
groovedaddy
Jan 2016
#9
Reich reminds us Princeton study looked at US political scene before Citizens United.
Octafish
Jan 2016
#15
Have you found Parenti's theses to be confirmed by events over the past 35 years, hifiguy?
Octafish
Jan 2016
#19
yes, the triangle of power, the illusion of democracy, and the inactionary masses, nt
amborin
Jan 2016
#12
That explains why his story is seldom told any more, as JFK, who also addressed class and power...
Octafish
Jan 2016
#27
The power elite have been using all these same tricks and treasons upon us for thousands of years
Dont call me Shirley
Jan 2016
#20
A simple, few indviduals, yes. But propped up and hoisted on the shoulders of the many.
raouldukelives
Jan 2016
#24
When Mill tried to get his PE published at U. of Texas Press, the book was rejected....
Eleanors38
Jan 2016
#30