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The Corporate Ideal in the Liberal State, 1900-1918 Hardcover – January 13, 1981

by James Weinstein (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0313227097 ISBN-10: 0313227098 Edition: New edition

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“This well-written book is partly based on information from unpublished papers of the period. Its main value lies less in the answers Mr. Weinstein provides than in the questions he raises. Recommended for the informed layman as well as the scholar.”–Library Journal

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This well-written book is partly based on information from unpublished papers of the period. Its main value lies less in the answers Mr. Weinstein provides than in the questions he raises. Recommended for the informed layman as well as the scholar.

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Hardcover: 263 pages
Publisher: Greenwood Press Reprint; New edition edition (January 13, 1981)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0313227098
ISBN-13: 978-0313227097
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,140,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"False Consciousness of the Nature of American Liberalism"

By TS on November 6, 2011

Format: Hardcover

Writing in the late 1960s, James Weinstein traces the liberal ideology of his time to the beginning of the twentieth century. This ideology, he writes, "had been worked out and, in part, tried out by the end of the First World War" (p. ix). Installed by a cadre of sophisticated corporate and financial leaders in an effort to create stability, to rationalize industry, and to contain socialism, the "liberal corporate social order" quickly permeated all levels of government and inaugurated a form of political hegemony that reigned far into the twentieth century.

Weinstein identifies two principal components of the Progressive liberal state. First, drawing from Gabriel Kolko, he asserts that since the largest corporations desired stable markets and responsible conduct among businesses, they pressed for government intervention in the national economy. Second, laissez faire gave way to the notion of a fair social system which promised to confer benefits to "all classes" through perpetual economic growth. In short, reform programs served business interests.
Through such strategies, the corporate world cloaked its role in overhauling the political economy. Explaining the ways in which corporations supported the idea that liberalism opposed big businesses, Weinstein writes that "[f]alse consciousness of the nature of American liberalism has been one of the most powerful ideological weapons that American capitalism has had in maintaining its hegemony" (p. xi). Businessmen allowed, for example, for the absorption of radical criticism by conceding "status and influence" to their protesters in exchange for support of "the existing social order" (p. xiv).Read more ›

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