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The USA is an oligarchy: This scholar explained how in 1956 (with historian Aaron Good)

Geopolitical Economy Report

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The Higher Immorality

Mills defined the higher immorality as the general weakening of older values and the organization of irresponsibility. This is not a case of corrupt men in honorable institutions. If the institutions are themselves corrupting, the men who people them are corrupted. And so this that he has identified, this higher morality, very important to understanding what animates this whole system. L its widespread acceptance is a key aspect of mass society. Swhy has a whole chapter, i believe, called the higher Immorality and a it prevails.

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