An attempt to analyse the various mechanisms whereby modern society manipulates its slaves into accepting their slavery and - at least in the short term - seems to succeed. It does not deal with 'police' and 'jails' as ordinarily conceived but with those internalised patterns of repression and coercion, and with those intellectual prisons in which the 'mass individual' is today entrapped.
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Product Description:
Brinton argues that our political perceptions have been conditioned by social and sexual patterns to reinforce the dominant ideology, which results in both a need for authority and an inhibition of autonomous thought. "A brilliant summary of the underlying causes of the irrational in public life."--"Our Generation"
About the Author:
Maurice Brinton is the author of Bolsheviks & Workers' Control, Irrational in Politics and countless essays that have been printed widely from 1960 to the present.
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- PublisherBlack Rose Books
- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 0919618243
- ISBN 13 9780919618244
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages72
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