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Advertising did, in fact, serve as a powerful mechanism weakening the working-class press. Curran and Seaton give the growth of advertising a status comparable with the increase in capital costs as a factor allowing the market to accomplish what state taxes and harassment failed to do, noting that these “advertisers thus acquired a de facto licensing authority since, without their support, newspapers ceased to be economically viable.”
Manufacturing Consent
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
The recent economic crisis has involved the best graduates from our most prestigious schools. The key players were our greatest test takers, our academic overachievers, and those who leveraged Ivy League success to land (unconscionably) high paying jobs in the financial sector. Their greed, incompetence, and narcissistic irreverence speak eloquently to the failure of our educational systems. __The economic crisis is a crisis of capacity and decision-making, as the sheer complexity of the global economy has long outstripped the analytical tools used to understand it. No business school in the world can prepare anyone to understand the unimaginable speed and complexity of today's capitalist world-economy.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
The idea that the personal is distinct from the political became one of the core principles of classical liberal ideology, which holds that the nation-state is something good and necessary, but that its power must be limited to allow personal freedom. __The personal/political distinction was thus originally made primarily with the state in mind: our 'personal' lives should be left alone by the state, taxes should be as low as possible, and state interference in matters of personal choice should be avoided.__ This certainly makes sense from the perspective of bourgeois white men who want to protect their private wealth from the state and treat their families and employees however they like - but __as feminists have shown, it is not a very helpful distinction for those who are less privileged.__
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
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