People Get Ready Quotes

“revolution we describe herein. The digital”
― Robert W. McChesney, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

“The idea that the Nazis could assume power was considered utterly preposterous almost until the moment they did. Many Americans, including President Franklin Roosevelt and Vice President Henry A. Wallace, understood that in times of severe economic crisis, all bets are off. Then a nation’s demons can be exploited, and America had its share, starting with extreme white racism. “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself,” Roosevelt said in 1938. “That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”
― Robert W. McChesney, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

“What coverage remains of politics and elections tends to be superficial, and spoon-feeds the public what elites are saying. Most legitimate debates occur when elites disagree with each other. If elites are in agreement on an issue, or do not wish to talk about it, it almost never appears as a significant story in the news media. Nowhere is this more true than with economic issues, where corporate power and capitalism are off-limits to critical assessments.”
― Robert W. McChesney, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

“Some technology experts like Ben Way expect a loss of 70 percent of existing jobs in the next three decades, with little hope that very many new jobs will emerge to replace what is lost.23”
― Robert W. McChesney, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

“Full employment for more than a brief period has never been enthusiastically received by Wall Street, as it raises wages and shifts economic and political power to employees. To some extent the decrepit state of the contemporary labor market reflects the total control over government economic policymaking by the wealthy.”
― Robert W. McChesney, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

“This book seeks to foster that progress by identifying a place of reconciliation between the two poles outlined in the exchange between Paul Mason (whose optimism we relish) and Nigel Pollitt (whose realism we value) within a society that has already changed radically. We”
― Robert W. McChesney, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy