Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent - Softcover

Rebecca Fisher (Editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907738096 ISBN 13: 9781907738098

Publisher: Corporate Watch, 2014

Synopsis

Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent includes twenty essays written by writers, academics and activists and edited by Corporate Watch researcher Rebecca Fisher, which collectively argue that genuine democracy and capitalism exist in fundamental contradiction, and explores how this contradiction is sustained via propaganda, manipulation of public opinion, and the co-option, marginalization and repression of dissent.

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Review:

"In ancient times democracy was conceived as antagonistic to any class society. A remarkable change took place when the social technology required to combine the appearance of democracy and the reality of capitalist class rule was created in the late 18th century. This book, with daring clarity, opens the hood and investigates what machinery makes it possible to manage democracy and make it safe for capitalism. In chapter after chapter the reader is shown 'how it is done' without obscuration. It is a brave book and it should not be missed." --Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch

About this edition

• Publisher: Corporate Watch
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1907738096
• ISBN 13: 9781907738098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 379