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librechik

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34. Conservatives went to war against The New Deal. And they won.

Wed Jan 27, 2016, 01:33 PM

Jan 2016

Truman couldn't even put a national health service into place, after we had done so in many other countries as part of world war 2 reconstruction.

Big Bank Cheap Labor Conservatives prospered during the war and weren't about to give that up. They won right away, and Eisenhower belatedly recognized their entrenchment. Now I defy anybody to undo these intolerable political conditions. Please.

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C. Wright Mills: Sociological Imagination and the Power Elite [View all] Octafish Jan 2016 OP

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The Comitatus Act was briefly repealed during the Katrina aftermath...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