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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
The amount of coercion needed to make society adhere to the model is "a rough measure of the model's validity." "That the Soviet Union had to use so much coercion undermined the credibility of communism as a model of reality," he said. "It is perhaps symptomatic that the USA, a society that elevates freedom to the highest position among its values, is also the one that has one of the very largest penal systems in the world relative to its population. It also inflicts violence all over the world. It tolerates a great deal of gun violence, and a health service that excludes large numbers of people.
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.42
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
W. Bush's life is a case study in the insidious affirmative action for the rich.
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
Hanna Krall's book Shielding the Flame drew on the experience of Dr. Marek Edelman, who before he died in 2009 was the sole survivor of the five-person command that led the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
Sandy illustrated the depraved mentality of an oligarchic and corporate elite that, as conditions worsen, retreats into self-contained gated communities, guts basic services, and abandons the wider population.
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world-an average of 89 per 100 people,
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
There is no reliable data on the number of military-style assault weapons in private hands, but the working estimate is about 1.5 million.
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
By the time they were done, America's progressive and radical movements, which had given the country the middle class and opened up our political system, did not exist. It was upon the corpses of these radical movements, which had fought for the working class, that the corporate state was erected in the late twentieth century.
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified-beauty, truth, love, grief, the search for meaning, and the struggle with our own mortality-are ignored and ridiculed.
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
Bulgakov and Roth understood that there is no real political ideology among decayed ruling elites. Political debate and ideological constructs for these elites are just so much absurdist theater, a cynical species of public spectacle and mass entertainment. These systems, like our own, are organized kleptocracies.
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
Speculators at megabanks and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are not, in a strict sense, capitalists. They do not make money from the means of production. Rather, they ignore or rewrite the law-ostensibly put in place to protect the weak from the powerful-to steal from everyone, including their own shareholders. They produce nothing. They make nothing. They only manipulate money. They are no different from the detested speculators who were hanged in the seventeenth century, when speculation was a capital offense.
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Chris Hedges _ Wages of Rebellion
Revolutions can even be faux revolutions when, through the careful manipulation of counterrevolutionary forces, they demand not reform but the restoration of retrograde power elites. The Central Intelligence Agency has long been a master of this technique. It organized street demonstrations and protests in Iran in 1953 to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and his cabinet. It funded and stoked protests again in 1973 in Chile to prompt the Chilean military to overthrow President Salvador Allende.
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