The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam Chomsky
In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard... →
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we... →
A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as... →
Governments don't control people like they used to.
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to... →
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's... →
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in... →