Requiem For the American Dream

Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life in his first major book on the subject. In Requiem for the American Dream, he devotes a chapter to each of ten principles that are used to concentrate wealth and power in America today: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and power of the state to keep rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize population. Each chapter has readings from core texts that have shaped his thinking, to augment his arguments.