1st Edition
Empire Versus Democracy The Triumph of Corporate and Military Power
By Carl Boggs
Copyright 2011
84 Pages
by
Routledge
84 Pages
by
Routledge
84 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Empire Versus Democracy , Carl Boggs traces the authoritarian trajectory of American politics since World War II, with emphasis on the growing concentration of corporate and military power that has accompanied the United States assumption of leading superpower on the world scene. The rise of the U.S. as unchallenged imperial nation has meant the steady expansion of a permanent war economy and... Read more
1. Democracy - or Oligarchy? 2. Corporate Dominion 3. Permanent War System 4. National Security-State 5. The Electoral Mirage
Biography
Carl Boggs is the author of numerous books in the fields of contemporary social and political theory, European politics, American politics, U.S. foreign and military policy, and film studies. For the past 20 years he has been Professor of Social Sciences at National University in Los Angeles, and more recently has been an adjunct professor at Antioch University in Los Angeles.
