The USA is an oligarchy: This scholar explained how in 1956 (with historian Aaron Good)
Geopolitical Economy Report
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The Reactionary Trend in American Intellectualism
Mills saw intellectuals as kind of the last line of defence. He charged that they had given up on overriding goal of western humanism. Horatio alger is really the source of american ideology, if you can even call it that. And this was the result of living in a material boom and political vacuum. Mc carthyism had attacked the new deal, and i think that's actually what mc carthyism was supposed to do.
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