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PHANTOM DEMOCRACY:  CORPORATE INTERESTS AND POLITICAL POWER IN AMERICA by Carl Boggs

Macmillan, 2011
In this powerful new book, Boggs traces the historical evolution of American politics by focusing on the gradual triumph of corporate and military power over democratic institutions and practices.  The events of 9/11 and their aftermath, including the war on terror, two lengthy wars, new threats of war, and massive increases in Pentagon spending, have only deepened the trend toward ever more concentrated forms of power in a society that ostensibly embraces democratic values.  Written in the tradition of C. Wright Mills.
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“Carl Boggs argues that the American political system is no longer democratic in any recognizable sense, and that represents a profound threat to popular sovereignty, to comity among nations, and to the health and well-being of the American people not to mention the global ecosystem.  No book could be more timely or urgent.”    
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John Sanbonmatsu                                                                                                      
​Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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― Isaac Asimov
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  • BOOKS
    • FUGITIVE POLITICS: THE STRUGGLE FOR ECOLOGICAL SANITY
    • FACING CATASTROPHE: FOOD, POLITICS, AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
    • FASCISM OLD AND NEW: AMERICAN POLITICS AT THE CROSSROADS
    • ORIGINS OF THE WARFARE STATE: WORLD WAR II AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS
    • DRUGS, POWER, AND POLITICS: NARCO WARS, BIG PHARMA, AND THE SUBVERSION OF DEMOCRACY
    • ECOLOGY AND REVOLUTION: GLOBAL CRISIS AND THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE
    • PHANTOM DEMOCRACY: CORPORATE INTERESTS AND POLITICAL POWER IN AMERICA
    • EMPIRE VERSUS DEMOCRACY: THE TRIUMPH OF CORPORATE AND MILITARY POWER
    • THE CRIMES OF EMPIRE: ROGUE SUPERPOWER AND WORLD DOMINATION
    • THE HOLLYWOOD WAR MACHINE: U.S. MILITARISM AND POPULAR CULTURE
    • IMPERIAL DELUSIONS: AMERICAN MILITARISM AND ENDLESS WAR
    • A WORLD IN CHAOS: SOCIAL CRISIS AND THE RISE OF POSTMODERN CINEMA
    • MASTERS OF WAR: MILITARISM AND BLOWBACK IN THE ERA OF AMERICAN EMPIRE
    • THE END OF POLITICS: CORPORATE POWER AND THE DECLINE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
    • THE SOCIALIST TRADITION: FROM CRISIS TO DECLINE
    • INTELLECTUALS AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY ​
    • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL POWER: EMERGING FORMS OF RADICALISM IN THE WEST
    • THE TWO REVOLUTIONS: GRAMSCI AND THE DILEMMAS OF WESTERN MARXISM
    • THE IMPASSE OF EUROPEAN COMMUNISM
    • THE POLITICS OF EUROCOMMUNISM: SOCIALISM IN TRANSITION
    • GRAMSCI'S MARXISM
  • ARTICLES
    • COUNTERPUNCH
    • FAST CAPITALISM
    • NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE
    • DEMOCRACY AND NATURE
  • GUEST AUTHORS
    • PETER MCLAREN
  • BLOG
    • THE GREAT SOCIALIST MIRAGE
    • JANUARY SIXTH AS GODSEND
    • Bill MCKIBBEN, MARK BITTMAN, AND THE FOOD CATASTROPHE
    • THE TORN LEGACY OF FRANK WILKINSON
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