penguin | In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam
Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a
clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten
principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America
today? They’re simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign
the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack
the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators,
engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep
the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream,
Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds
readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking
to bolster his argument.
