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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2010
- ISBN
- 9781568586441
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
1568586442
ISBN-13
9781568586441
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92468962
Product Key Features
Book Title
Death of the Liberal Class
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-032916
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Freshman
Dewey Decimal
320.510973
Synopsis
The liberal class is facing an untimely demise of its own making. In this provocative new work Chris Hedges explains how liberals sold us out, bankrupted the country and now face a crisis of their own., The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define ourselves as a good and noble people. Most importantly, on behalf of the power elite the liberal class serves as bulwarks against radical movements by offering a safety valve for popular frustrations and discontentment by discrediting those who talk of profound structural change. Once this class loses its social and political role then the delicate fabric of a democracy breaks down and the liberal class, along with the values it espouses, becomes an object of ridicule and hatred. The door that has been opened to proto-fascists has been opened by a bankrupt liberalism The Death of the Liberal Class examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted. Hedges argues there are five pillars of the liberal establishment - the press, liberal religious institutions, labor unions, universities and the Democratic Party-- and that each of these institutions, more concerned with status and privilege than justice and progress, sold out the constituents they represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served.
LC Classification Number
JC574.2.U6H43 2010
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