Herbert Schiller: Capital

Herbert Schiller was American media critic. Explore interesting quotes on capital.

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“With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.”

Herbert Schiller

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Three, Communication Today: What's New?, p. 92

“Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.”

Herbert Schiller

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Five, Corporatizing Communication And Culture, p. 132

Heart

“In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade."”

Herbert Schiller

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Two, Visions Of Global Electronic Mastery, p. 80

Time

“Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.”

Herbert Schiller

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter One, Number One And the Political Economy Of Communication, p. 56

“One growing threat to the stability of the U. S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.”

Herbert Schiller

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Seven, Number One In The Twenty-First Century, p. 183-184

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