The United States is an Oligarchy: This Scholar Explained How In 1956 (with Historian Aaron Good)

The United States is an Oligarchy: This Scholar Explained How In 1956 (with Historian Aaron Good)

Sept. 12, 2022

Multipolarista - Benjamin Norton

In his 1956 book "The Power Elite," New Left sociologist C. Wright Mills detailed how decision-making in the United States is not democratic; it is determined by:

(1) Wall Street capitalists and large corporations, (2) the Pentagon and military-industrial complex, and (3) the corrupt political class.

This is PART 8 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

Original: https://youtu.be/1PGah9yfulw

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