Noam chomsky is a sharp commentator on U.S. foreign policy and corporate influence on Media.Hey everyone, hope you guys are doing great.
Anyone read this book?
What's your views on it?
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“Adam Smith warned that the ‘masters of mankind’ will pursue their ‘vile maxim: All for ourselves, and nothing for other people.’ There could hardly be a more apt description of the recent era of savage capitalism, straining for new heights under cover of Trump’s antics. Who exactly are the masters? This remarkable inquiry lifts the veil, providing detailed and often shocking revelations about the astonishing concentration of private wealth and corporate power, its institutions and integrated structure – and not least, its threat to civilized and humane existence.” —Noam Chomsky
But as usual he fell into the populist generalisation that big wealth and power are conspiring and cooperating.
Most of the time elites (who control power and wealth) hate each other and are plotting against each other. Only in very exceptional cases when confronting extreme threat such as Soviet communism there was once quite a strong cohesion.
