Socialist Register 2006
Volume 42: Telling the Truth
Panitch, Leo; Leys, Colin (eds.)
http://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/issue/view/443Publisher: Socialist Register
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Cx Number: CX22876
A generalized pathology of chronic mendacity seems to be a structural condition of global capitalism at the beginning of the 21st century. Previous volumes of the Socialist Register have analyzed the imbrication of national states and economies in the American neoliberal imperial order, and the stresses this generates within them, as well as between them. What has become increasingly clear is that it is not just falling in line with the increasingly crude, militarized geopolitics of the imperium that threatens the legitimacy of governments that join 'coalitions of the willing'. Equally profound, and perhaps ultimately more serious, problems of legitimacy are created by the relentless pressure of the market forces unleashed by global neoliberalism, and the ecological degradation and social dislocation they are generating. These legitimacy problems are reflected in the unprecedented levels of secrecy, obfuscation, dissembling and downright lying that now characterize public life.
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Table of Contents:
Socialist Register 2006 Preface
Leo Panitch, Colin Leys
The cynical state
Colin Leys
The truth about capitalist democracy
Atilio Boron
The 'business community'
Doug Henwood
The truth about welfare reform
Frances Fox Piven, Barbara Ehrenreich
The 'scholarly myths' of the new law and order doxa
Loic Wacquant
Telling the truth at a moment of truth: US news media and the invasion and occupation of Iraq
Robert W. McChesney
Propaganda-managed democracy: the UK and the lessons of Iraq
David Miller
Correcting Stiglitz: from information to power in the world of development
Ben Fine, Elisa Van Waeyenberge
Counting the poor: the truth about world poverty statistics
Sanjay G. Reddy
Playing with the truth: the politics of theatre
Michael Kustow
Postmodernism and the corruption of the academic intelligentsia
John Sanbonmatsu
Telling the truth about class
G.M. Tamas
On telling the truth
Terry Eagleton
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