1. The New Levers of State Power
- Author
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Keller, Matthew R. and Block, Fred
- Subjects
United States. National Science Foundation -- Political activity -- Innovations ,United States. Department of Energy -- Political activity -- Innovations ,United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- Political activity -- Innovations ,United States. National Institutes of Health -- Innovations -- Political activity ,Right and left (Political science) -- Political aspects ,Financial statements -- Political aspects ,Climatic changes -- Political aspects ,Political science - Abstract
The US government's expanding role in assisting businesses with the development of new technologies has significantly increased corporate dependence on the state. This dependence creates new opportunities for social movements to extract significant concessions from capital., The Left's standard theoretical tools are inadequate for making sense of US politics in the current period. They give us little leverage to explain the threat of authoritarian or neofascist [...]
- Published
- 2023