This info is directly from @RBReich’s @svgcapitalism
Nothing about where we find ourselves as a country is surprising to me because of this one document...
The Powell Memo (1971) was commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce law2.wlu.edu/deptimages/Pow…
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1. The understanding and willingness to apply unlimited financial resources to reaching their goal
2. The understanding of taking a long term approach
3. The weight and power to persuade that he places on public speaking: propagandizing.
5. Coordinated effort on the national and local levels
6. Coordinated effort to influence public perception through media
7. Influence gained through academic research and writing
9. Influence Supreme Court
10. Influence Stockholders
14. Organizational restructuring of the Chamber
16. “Ideological attack on the system itself”
Powell developed a comprehensive strategy to leverage privilege and oppression
Hell, the doc was titled “Attack On American Free Enterprise System”