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Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy
Robert McChesney
(Monthly Review Press, 2014, 272 pp)
Activist University of Illinois scholar Robert McChesney has for some time now been a compelling voice on the “political economy of communication,” an emerging new discipline that’s probing how our media go about entrenching “the privileges of those at the top.”
This field, McChesney argues in this engaging new book, belongs on our political center stage. Our deeply unequal social order, he explains, has simply ceased working for average people.
“The classroom fantasy of capitalism as a bunch of heroic little-guy entrepreneurs competing for the betterment of consumers and creating jobs in the communities they inhabit,” McChesney quips, “has about as much to do with the American economy and society today as the official rhetoric of ‘worker’ democracy’ did to Soviet communism.”…
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