Servants of Wealth - The Right's Assault on Economic Justice (Paperback)

For 25 years now, the Right has been successfully using the rhetoric of freedom and democracy to build support for the politics of wealth and privilege. It has traveled a long way from earlier appearances as the marginalized defender of an idle and backward-looking upper crust and the patriotic champion of an aggrieved and ignored minority. The Right has dominated national politics because it has taken advantage of opportunity with patient organizing and close attention to a distinct set of core ideas. As the Right rose to power, it constructed a formidable mass base, built an impressive set of institutions, and developed a coherent ideology that was not afraid to address American politics. Everything that the Right has to say about world affairs, authority, race, morality, the state, and the economy, though, has served a single core project. Above all else, the Right has sought to eliminate social equality as a legitimate aim of public policy. Its success in doing so has facilitated one of the most dramatic, undemocratic, and dangerous transfers of wealth and power in recent American history. In this bold new book, political scientist John Ehrenberg critically analyzes the rise of an ideologically coherent Right. He dissects their themes of military weakness, moral decay, racial anxiety, and hostility to social welfare to reveal their central organizing objective of protecting wealth and assaulting equality.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Polemics
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	September 2006
Authors:	John Ehrenberg
Dimensions:	226 x 151 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-4205-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political parties > General
LSN:	0-7425-4205-X
Barcode:	9780742542051

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