Book
Requiem for the American dream : the 10 principles of concentration of wealth & power
Edition
Seven Stories Press first edition.
Publication Information
New York : Seven Stories Press, [2017]
Physical Description
xv, 172 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Added Uniform Title
Summary
In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts an 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 each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument. Chomsky and his editors, the filmmakers Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott, spent countless hours together over the course of five years, from 2011 to 2016. After the release of the film version, Chomsky and the editors returned to the many hours of tape and transcript and created a document that included three times as much text as was used in the film.
Notes
"Based on the film Requiem for the American Dream"--Cover.
Subjects
- Income distribution > United States.
- Income distribution > Social aspects > United States.
- Income distribution > Political aspects > United States.
- Wealth > United States.
- Wealth > Social aspects > United States.
- Wealth > Political aspects > United States.
- Equality > United States.
- Power (Social sciences) > United States.
- Elite (Social sciences) > United States.