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Book: Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
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  1. Noam Chomsky _ Profit Over People:

    Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless.
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  2. Noam Chomsky _ Profit Over People:

    Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world's people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.
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  3. Noam Chomsky _ Profit Over People:

    Earlier in the twentieth century some critics called fascism "capitalism with the gloves off," meaning that fascism was pure capitalism without democratic rights and organizations."
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  4. Noam Chomsky _ Profit Over People:

    One should attend carefully to the fear and desperation of the powerful. They understand very well the potential reach of the "ultimate weapon," and only hope that those who seek a more free and just world will not gain the same understanding and put it effectively to use.
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  5. Noam Chomsky _ Profit Over People:

    That is neoliberal democracy in a nutshell: trivial debate over minor issues by parties that basically pursue the same pro-business policies regardless of formal differences and campaign debate. Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits to popular deliberation or change; i.e. so long as it isn't democracy.
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  6. Noam Chomsky _ Profit Over People:

    Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly."
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