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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Dismal recurrence of the robber baron assault on the poor,
By John C. Landon "nemonemini" (New York City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (Hardcover)
This study of the similarity of the current neo-liberal resurgence to the Gilded Age gets down to cases with more than superficial resemblances and echoes by showing how the same strategies (of subtle class warfare)are at work in both cases, with respect to questions of public welfare. In both cases an assault on public intervention was a deliberate strategy to erase the gains of the poor. The concordances seem almost uncanny, and the result is a possible lesson the current regime could learn from, if they could learn. The main point is to pierce through the strategy of propaganda against public relief systems, alert to their faults, to see the class interest involved in the attacks on the poor, e.g. the relationship to wage structures, and the desire to eliminate any softlanding against market mechanics.
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The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages by Stephen Pimpare (Hardcover - Aug. 2004)
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