On the other hand, it's interesting to note the background of a Supreme Court "liberal."
On 3/17/06, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Carl Remick wrote:
>
> "Faux is the second keen-eyed anatomist I've read (the
> first being Michael Perelman) to identify the opening
> salvo in the current US class war as being fired in a
> little-noted episode -- i.e., in 1971 the U.S. Chamber
> of Commerce galvanized American capitalists into
> concerted political action when it circulated a
> confidential strategic memo entitled "Attack on the
> Free Enterprise System" by corporate lawyer (later
> Supreme Court justice) Lewis Powell."
>
>
> Carl,
>
> At the History News Network site there's a piece by
> Dave Johnson that gets into this. Here's an excerpt:
>
> http://www.hnn.us/articles/1244.html
>
>
> Some History of the Conservative Movement
>
> In 1971 the National Chamber of Commerce circulated a
> memo by future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell
> among business leaders which claimed that "the
> American economic system" of business and free markets
> was "under broad attack" by "Communists, New Leftists
> and other revolutionaries who would destroy the entire
> system, both political and economic." Powell argued
> that those engaged in this attack come from "the
> college campus, the pulpit, the media, the
> intellectual and literary journals, the arts and
> sciences, and from politicians."
>
> According to the Powell memo, the key to solving this
> problem was to get business people to "confront this
> problem as a primary responsibility of corporate
> management" by building organizations that will use
> "careful long-range planning and implementation, in
> consistency of action over an indefinite period of
> years, in the scale of financing only available in
> joint effort, and in the political power available
> only through united action and national
> organizations." It helped immeasurably, Powell noted,
> that the boards of trustees of universities
> "overwhelmingly are composed of men and women who are
> leaders in the system," and that most of the media
> "are owned and theoretically controlled by
> corporations which depend upon profits, and the free
> enterprise system to survive."
>
> Powell wrote that these organizations should employ a
> "faculty of scholars" to publish in journals, write
> "books, paperbacks and pamphlets," with speakers and a
> speaker's bureau, as well as develop organizations to
> evaluate textbooks, and engage in a "long range
> effort" to correct the purported imbalances in campus
> faculties. "The television networks should be
> monitored in the same way that textbooks should be
> kept under constant surveillance." Powell said that
> this effort must also target the judicial system.
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