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“The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.”

3 CONSPIRACY: PHOBIA AND REALITY, The JFK Assassination I, p. 159
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.”

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Fascism In a Pinstriped Suit, p. 32
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.”

Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 6, p. 81

“It is not Socialism that subverts democracy, but democracy that subverts capitalism.”

Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 320

“There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."”

Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 13, p. 222

“The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.”

Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 11, p. 179

“The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.”

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Creating The Poor, p. 21
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.”

5 MISCELLANY AND MEMORABILIA, Struggles in Academe: A Personal Account, p. 248
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.”

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, The Invisible Bloodbaths, p. 132
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.”

Preface to the Sixth Edition, p. viii
Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition

“The mass media are class media.”

2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, Fabricating a "Cultural Democracy", p. 107
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.”

Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 12, p. 203

“Profits are what you make when not working.”

Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 2, p. 9

“Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.”

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Making The World Safe For Hypocrisy, p. 64
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.”

4 POLITICAL THEORY AN CONSCIOUSNESS, Political Science Fiction, p. 231
Dirty truths (1996), first edition