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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER ELEVEN THE REVEILLE The workers are strong. If they endure oppression, it is because they are hypno-tised. The one thing needful is to awaken them from this hypnotic sleep. Leo Tolstoy. (Diary, February 3rd, 1898.) The aim of Proletcult has been to show that all the educational forces of the capitalist State--the power of the schools and the universities; the power of the cinema, the pulpit, and the press--combine to diffuse a Bourgeoiscultural suggestive influence tending to befool the workers. This has not, until recently, been a deliberate policy; but it tends increasingly to become so. The policy is more deliberate and more ruthless in the United States than as yet in Europe. Upton Sinclair, in The Brass Check, refers primarily to the newspaper press and to American conditions; but much of what he has to say applies to this side of the Atlantic, and can be generalised to include all the "means of infection " at the disposal of the master class. He writes: "You will miss the point of this book if you fail to get clear that the provision of news and the betrayal of public opinion is no haphazard and accidental thing. For twenty-five years it has been a thing deliberately planned and systematically carried out, a science and a technique. High-priced experts devote their lives to it. They sit in council with the masters of industry, and report on the condition of the public mind, and determine precisely how this shall be presented and how that shall be suppressed. They create a public psychology, a force in the grip of which you, their victim, are as helpless as a moth in the glare of an arc-light. And what is the purpose of it all? One thing, and one thing only--that the wage slaves of America shall continue to believe in and support the system w...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217859981 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217859984 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 86 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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