Fall of the Rovean empire?
Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal
10/06/05
For 30 years, beginning with the Nixon presidency, advanced under Reagan, stalled with the elder Bush, a new political economy struggled to be born. The idea was pure and simple: centralization of power in the hands of the Republican Party would ensure that it never lost it again. Under George W. Bush, this new system reached its apotheosis. It is a radically novel social, political and economic formation that deserves study alongside capitalism and socialism. Neither Adam Smith nor Vladimir Lenin captures its essence, though it has far more elements of Leninist democratic-centralism than Smithian free markets. Some have referred to this model as crony capitalism; others compare the waste, extravagance and greed to the Gilded Age. Call it 21st century Republicanism... [subscription or ad view required]
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/10/06/rovean_empire
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Fall of the Rovean empire?
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Informant: Lew Rockwell
Fall of the Rovean Empire?
Sidney Blumenthal writes that drunk on power, the Republican oligarchs overreached. Now their entire project could be doomed.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100705K.shtml
by Sidney Blumenthal
10/06/05
For 30 years, beginning with the Nixon presidency, advanced under Reagan, stalled with the elder Bush, a new political economy struggled to be born. The idea was pure and simple: centralization of power in the hands of the Republican Party would ensure that it never lost it again. Under George W. Bush, this new system reached its apotheosis. It is a radically novel social, political and economic formation that deserves study alongside capitalism and socialism. Neither Adam Smith nor Vladimir Lenin captures its essence, though it has far more elements of Leninist democratic-centralism than Smithian free markets. Some have referred to this model as crony capitalism; others compare the waste, extravagance and greed to the Gilded Age. Call it 21st century Republicanism... [subscription or ad view required]
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/10/06/rovean_empire
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Fall of the Rovean empire?
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/salon61.html
Informant: Lew Rockwell
Fall of the Rovean Empire?
Sidney Blumenthal writes that drunk on power, the Republican oligarchs overreached. Now their entire project could be doomed.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100705K.shtml
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