Friendly fascism : the new face of power in America /

A look at corporate authoritarianism that William Shirer called "the best thing I've ever seen on how America might go fascist democratically." In 1980, US capitalist politics wore a "nice-guy mask," a troubling disguise to cover up a creeping despotism in which the ultra-ri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gross, Bertram M., 1912-1997 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2016.
Colección:Forbidden bookshelf series.
Temas:
1945-1989
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1989.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Series Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Preface, 1985
  • Introduction: A Patriotic Warning
  • ONE: The Roots of Friendly Fascism
  • 1. The Rise and Fall of Classic Fascism
  • Italy, Germany, Japan
  • Breeding Grounds of Fascism
  • The Axis
  • Anti-Fascist Failures
  • Fascist Exploits
  • Fascist Ideologies
  • Destruction of the Axis
  • Indestructible Myths
  • 2. The Takeoff Toward a New Corporate Society
  • The Sun Never Sets on America's "Free World"
  • The Golden International
  • Big Welfare for Big Business
  • More Rational Corporate Planning
  • Technology: Starting, Stopping, Suppressing
  • 3. The Mysterious Establishment
  • The Castles of Power
  • The Ultra-Rich
  • The Corporate Overseers
  • The Chief Executive Network
  • Executive Managers
  • Junior and Contingent Members
  • Conflicts Among the Few
  • Purges and Conversions
  • Purifying Ideologies
  • 4. The Side Effects of Success
  • An Abundance of Frustrations
  • Falling Apart: Work, Community, Family
  • Loneliness and Alienation
  • Crime: The Dirty Secrets
  • The Erosion of Authority
  • 5. The Challenge of a Shrinking Capitalist World
  • New Losses to Communism
  • Creeping Socialism
  • Third World Demands
  • Detente: A Cooler Cold War
  • Instability at the Top
  • 6. Old Crises in New Forms
  • Untamed Recession
  • The Hidden Unemployed
  • The New Inflation: Hyena's Delight
  • The Dynamite of Class Conflict
  • Limited War
  • Unlimited Overkill
  • TWO: The Specter of Friendly Fascism
  • 7. The Unfolding Logic
  • Making the Most of Crises
  • Consolidating Power
  • The Cat Feet of Tyranny
  • Many Paths
  • 8. Trilateral Empire or Fortress America?
  • American Retrenchment
  • A "True Empire"
  • Alternative Outcomes
  • 9. The Friendly Fascist Establishment
  • From Floundering Establishment to Super-America, Inc.
  • A Righteous Presidency.
  • Remolding Militarism
  • The Restructuring of the Radical Right
  • New Ideologies of Central Power
  • Triplespeak
  • 10. Friendly Fascist Economics
  • More Stagflation
  • More Money Moving Upward
  • An Abundance of Shortages
  • More Waste and Pollution
  • More Nuclear Poison
  • More Junk and Disservices
  • 11. Subverting Democratic Machinery
  • Integrating Separate Branches
  • Friendly Fascist Federalism
  • Community Carnivals
  • Contrapuntal Party Harmony
  • Union-Busting and the Slow Meltdown
  • The Lessons of the Watergate Conspiracy
  • Unhinging an Anti-Establishment White House
  • Coups D'Etat American-Style
  • 12. Managing Information and Minds
  • Information as the March
  • The Symbolic Environment
  • Image as the Reality
  • Narrowing the Scope of Controversy
  • Manufacturing Opinion by Polling
  • The Electronic Throne
  • Monitoring as the Message
  • Womb-to-Tomb Dossiers
  • Economic and Social Vindicators
  • Educational Authoritarianism
  • Custodial Functions
  • 13. Incentives for System Acceptance
  • Extended Professionalism
  • Job, Prometheus, Faust
  • For Consumers: Kidnapper Candy
  • Servitude's Services
  • Conditional Benefactions
  • Rationed Payoffs
  • The Effulgent Aura
  • 14. The Ladder of Terror
  • The Rungs of Violence
  • Precision Purging
  • Forceful Confrontation
  • Personal Injury
  • Covert Action
  • Conflict Among the "Slobs"
  • A Violence-Vigilante Culture
  • 15. Sex, Drugs, Madness, Cults
  • Sex: Through Liberation to Repression
  • Drugs: Religion of Some People
  • Madness: Escape from Madness
  • Cults: Belonging through Submission
  • 16. The Adaptive Hydra
  • Frying Pan-Fire Conflicts
  • Multilevel Co-optation
  • Creative Counterresistance
  • Innovative Apathetics
  • 17. The Myths of Determinism
  • Impossibility: It Couldn't Happen
  • Inevitability: It Will Happen
  • Irreversibility: Eternal Servitude or Holocaust.
  • THREE: True Democracy
  • 18. It Hasn't Happened Yet
  • The USA Today vs. Friendly Fascism, USA
  • Why It Has Not Yet Happened
  • 19. The Long-Term Logic of Democracy
  • The Democratic Mystique
  • Democratic Struggles
  • 20. The Democratic Logic in Action
  • A Good Neighbor in a New World Order
  • Democratizing the Establishment
  • Balancing the Economy
  • Democratizing the Social Base
  • Information for Human Liberation
  • Releasing Humanistic Values
  • Truth and Rationality
  • 21. What Can You Do?
  • Yes, You ...
  • Anyone Anywhere, Really?
  • High Aspirations, Realistic Expectations
  • My Country, Right and Wrong
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Copyright Page.

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