We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few - Softcover

Ovetz, Robert

 
9780745344720: We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0745344720 ISBN 13: 9780745344720
Verlag: Pluto Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Written by 55 of the richest white men, and signed by only 39 of them, the US constitution is the sacred text of American nationalism. Popular perceptions of it are mired in idolatry, myth and misinformation - many Americans have opinions on the constitution but have little idea what it says. This book examines the constitution for what it is – a rulebook for elites to protect capitalism from democracy. Social movements have misplaced faith in the constitution as a tool for achieving justice when it actually impedes social change through the many roadblocks and obstructions we call 'checks and balances'. This stymies urgent progress on issues like labour rights, poverty, public health and climate change, propelling the American people and rest of the world towards destruction. Robert Ovetz's reading of the constitution shows that the system isn't broken. Far from it. It works as it was designed to.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Ovetz is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at San José State University, US. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 and the editor of Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle.

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Verlag
Pluto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0745344720
ISBN 13 
9780745344720
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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