> From: galliher at illinois.edu
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:26:57 -0500
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Fwd: Noam goes with Barry ?
>
> Chomsky, in 2004:
>
> "The US is a very free country, perhaps uniquely so. It is also, to an
> unusual extent, dominated by a highly class conscious business sector,
> so much so that America's leading social philosopher, John Dewey,
> described politics as 'the shadow cast by business over society.' =============== Dewey died in 1952. The USA has no leading social philosopher. Nor is it likely to ever have one. College administrators across the USA are busy shutting down or starving philosophy departments. Kamikaze capitalism has a ways to go yet. Ian