Take Taking The Risk Out Of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom And Liberty Constructed By Alex Carey Released As Hardcover

brief but excellent review of earlyth century politics in america as it pertains to creating an 'illusion' of true democracy among the masses.
. . doubtful, you say give it a chance, . . This clarified my understanding of business propaganda in a way that multiple other books I have read on the subject did not.
I feel I have a much sharper understanding now,

Alex Carey was an Australian academic who studied under Noam Chomsky, I originally heard Carey's work described by Chomsky and that is why I sought it out, I'm glad I did.

This book was published after Carey's death, It is a bit of a mishmash of different essays collected under one title, Yet aside from the last two chapters and a missing conclusion I would say this holds up admirably well,

The business assault on American minds began shortly after World War I, It helped pave the way for the McCarthyera anticommunist hysteria, Carey demonstrates how techniques have been refined and honed over the last century to get the precise results desired by the people who pay to influence what we think.
In other words, he names names, This book was thorough and deep, yet still readable and enjoyable, It's too bad that Carey didn't get the chance to make a more cohesive book, but this one is still great, powerful and still contemporary A collection of his essays several of them previously unpublished on corporate propaganda were published "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Propaganda in

the U.
S. and Australia" University of New South Wales Press, This book was reissued inby University of Illinois Press under the title "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty".
Alex Carey pioneered the study of corporate propaganda, aka HR, PR and economic education for workers, He is credited by Noam Chomsky who wrote the Foreword as the inspiration for his Manufacturing Consent, Carey argues that “the twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
” He says that corporate propaganda machines arise naturally in democratic capitalist states where policy is swayed by public opinion, Corporate propaganda arises in response to the key threats of the right to vote and union membership, in order to “subordinate the expression of democratic aspirations and the interests of larger public purposes to their own narrow corporate purposes.
” This creates what he calls “a propagandamanaged democracy, ” Hischapters cover the growth of this propaganda system in the United States, its exportation to other countries, and the emergence in academia of a social science research base to support the spread of corporate propaganda.
An important book that I believe anyone with an interest in these subjects should read, Explains how companies conduct feedback sessions with small groups of employees to give the impression that they are involving them democratically in the way the company is run a key element in unionbusting.
Very interesting but lost its edge by the final few chapters, Would recommend! Alexander Edward Carey was an Australian writer and social psychologist who pioneered the study of corporate propaganda, In his earlier life he had been a sheep farmer in Western Australia, Fromuntil his death, he was a lecturer in psychology at the University of New South Wales, The main subjects of his lectures and research were industrial psychology, and industrial relations, He was prominent in the anti Vietnam War movement, Carey committed suicide in. .