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Narratives of Hegemony
"Government should be run as a business"
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Resonates in popular consciousness as if to say, "Government should be thrifty and cost-conscious, like a mom and pop store." |
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Mobilize voters to support destruction of social entitlement programs. |
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Positive |
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Real businesses are dictatorships, organized in rigid top-down hierarchies giving executives and board members all but unlimited power over the lives of employees. This is exactly not how government should be organized. |
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More Information
- Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory, Laclau
- The Spitting Image, Lembcke
- Vietnam and Other American Fantasies, Franklin
- M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America, Franklin
- Trouble Tickets' narratives book selections
- Reading Capital, Althusser
- Lenin and Philosophy, Althusser
- Louis Althusser, Montag
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Comments
I'm afraid the takeover of government by business has already occurred. It's becoming obvious that the only beneficiaries of recent policy have been the largest corporations, most visibly the oil companies. So, instead of being "run as a business" it looks to me like our gov is inherently by big business, for big business, and of big business.
Posted by: G. Forward | April 15, 2006 01:56 PM