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First read Mills assigned by my PoliSc prof Howard Zinn leveymg Jan 2016 #1
That must have been one heck of a class. Octafish Jan 2016 #2
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
I've been wondering about Poppy Bush. By many accounts his IQ is/was librechik Jan 2016 #33
"knowledge was the crucial element to social change" antigop Jan 2016 #3
Exactly. Thus all the propaganda instead of knowledge. Octafish Jan 2016 #4
Octa...just got through reading The Power Elite.... clarice Jan 2016 #6
One thing I know: Mills wrote about the Military Industrial Complex before there was such a term. Octafish Jan 2016 #13
Yes, he was prescient in that respect.nt clarice Jan 2016 #26
These days we get to enjoy the politico-economic wisdom of Tyler Cowen. Octafish Jan 2016 #29
Conservatives went to war against The New Deal. And they won. librechik Jan 2016 #34
It was exactly the same in the ancient Roman Republic. Odin2005 Jan 2016 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author uriel1972 Jan 2016 #11
The elites murdered Caesar, overthrew the Republic, and did themselves in for greed. Octafish Jan 2016 #14
The Comitatus Act was briefly repealed during the Katrina aftermath... Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #31
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
Yep. Me too at U of F, but not at U of T. Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #32
Studied him as an undergrauate malaise Jan 2016 #10
Love the guy. Octafish Jan 2016 #16
The first political science book I was assigned in college back in 1981 hifiguy Jan 2016 #18
Have you found Parenti's theses to be confirmed by events over the past 35 years, hifiguy? Octafish Jan 2016 #19
To quote Austin Powers, hifiguy Jan 2016 #21
yes, the triangle of power, the illusion of democracy, and the inactionary masses, nt amborin Jan 2016 #12
Now the gangsters have nukes. Octafish Jan 2016 #23
Mills was decades ahead of his time. hifiguy Jan 2016 #17
That explains why his story is seldom told any more, as JFK, who also addressed class and power... Octafish Jan 2016 #27
The steel crisis put Jack Kennedy at or near the top of hifiguy Jan 2016 #37
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
And the talking heads on tee vee wonder, ''What's the problem?'' Octafish Jan 2016 #28
Thanks for your always enlightening posts, OF. Dont call me Shirley Jan 2016 #35
Okay, have read all your comments and I have not read the jwirr Jan 2016 #22
Not to disrupt this informative post and thread...but re: Bernie KoKo Jan 2016 #25
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
Octafish! This is a Great Watch to Add: "Professor Colin Samson on C. Wright Mills" KoKo Jan 2016 #36
Thank you, KoKo! Octafish Jan 2016 #38
As you have noticed..They aren't "Customers"..anymore.... KoKo Jan 2016 #39
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