Masters : the invisible war of the powerful against their subjects / Marco D'Eramo ; translated by Alice Kilgarriff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Eramo, Marco, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Kilgarriff, Alice, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Dominio. English.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Neoliberalism.

Capitalism.

Social classes.

Social conflict.

social classes.

Physical Description:

x, 292 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Invisible war of the powerful against their subjects

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, [2024]

Summary:

From the breweries of Colorado and the faculties of Harvard to the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, D'Eramo guides us through the places where a new war has been thought out, planned and financed. It's a real war, though it has been fought silently, without us realizing it. Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world, said it best: 'There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning'. The revolt from above has affected all fields - not only the economy, but also justice and education. It has twisted our ideas of society, family and ourselves. It has taken advantage of every crisis, whether natural disasters, terrorist attacks, recessions or pandemics. It has used every weapon, from the information revolution to the technology of debt. It has changed the nature of power, from discipline to control. It has learnt from the workers' struggle, using Gramsci and Lenin against them. Maybe the time has come for us to do the same and to learn from our opponents. --From publisher's description.

Contents:

Counterintelligentsia

Ideas are weapons; The justice market

Trigger-happy parents

The tyranny of benevolence

Capital sive natura

The politics pricelist

Arsenic and witchcraft I: the remote-control society

Arsenic and witchcraft II: do not forgive us our debts as we do not forgive those indebted to us

And they all lived antily ever after

Social pornography

The circular thought of the economic circuit

The game is rigged, however...

Time to learn from your enemies

Postscript: In the name of the Father, the Son and the bank account.

Notes:

"Originally published in Italian as Dominio: La guerra invisibile dei potenti contro i sudditi © Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore Milano, October 2020" --Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-265) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1509557431

9781509557431

150955744X

9781509557448

OCLC:

1378701455