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

from Geopolitical Economy Report · host Ben Norton

In his 1956 book "The Power Elite," New Left sociologist C. Wright Mills detailed how decision-making in the United States is not democratic; it is determined by (1) Wall Street capitalists and large corporations, (2) the Pentagon and military-industrial complex, and (3) the corrupt political class. This is PART 8 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1PGah9yfulw

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