The conservative critique-notice that I am using the term "conservative" in a traditional sense; such conservatives scarcely exist any more-was echoed at the liberal/progressive end of the spectrum early in the 20th century, most notably perhaps by John Dewey, America’s leading social philosopher, whose work focused largely on democracy. He argued that democratic forms have little substance when "the life of the country"-production, commerce, media-is ruled by private tyrannies in a system that he called "industrial feudalism," in which working people are subordinated to managerial control, and politics becomes "the shadow cast by big business over society." Notice that he was articulating ideas that were common coin among working people many years earlier. And the same was true of his call for the replacement of industrial feudalism by self-managed industrial democracy. #JohnDewey #RealConservatives #ConservativesOnCorporations
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