In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

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.

I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.

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

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

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.

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.