Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky
Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky
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Requiem for the American Dream
The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

Author: Noam Chomsky, Kelly Nyks, Peter Hutchinson, Jared P. Scott

Narrator: Donald Corren

Unabridged: 3 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/28/2017


Synopsis

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"During the Great Depression, which I'm old enough to remember, it was bad—much worse subjectively than today. But there was a sense that we'll get out of this somehow, an expectation that things were going to get better …"—from Requiem for the American Dream

In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument.

To create Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky and his editors, the filmmakers Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott, spent countless hours together over the course of five years, from 2011 to 2016. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form interviews. After the release of the film version, Chomsky and the editors returned to the many hours of tape and transcript and created a document that included three times as much text as was used in the film. The book that has resulted is nonetheless arguably the most succinct and tightly woven of Chomsky's long career, a beautiful vessel in which to carry Chomsky's bold and uncompromising vision, his perspective on the economic reality and its impact on our political and moral well-being as a nation.

About Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and Chomsky is one of the foremost critics of US foreign policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics.


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Goodreads review by Bradley

When it comes to sussing out the state of our world and all the factors that contribute to where we've wound up, I'm not a slouch. I've read hundreds of books and have followed so much news and have discovered, again and again, that Noam Chomsky *Knows His Shit*. Just from the standpoint that he has......more

Goodreads review by Maria

O Funeral do Sonho Os Alicerces do Sonho: “«somos extremamente pobres, mas trabalharemos arduamente e encontraremos uma saída», o que, até certo ponto, foi verdade.” Os Coveiros do Sonho: “os principais arquitetos da política são os proprietários da sociedade — são as instituições financeiras e as empre......more