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“Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.”

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Herbert Schiller

Herbert Schiller was a prominent American author known for his profound insights into media and communication studies. His works explored the role of media in politics and society, which had a profound impact on scholars and practitioners in subsequent generations. more

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“The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.”

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“How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.”

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“Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.”

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“In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."”

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“With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.”

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“Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.”

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“Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.”

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“Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.”

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“how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?”

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“Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.”

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