Bruce Levine

Bruce Levine

Accelerating “The Coming Revolt of the Guards” —and Increasing the Thousands on the Streets to Millions

October 21st, 2011

In a highly developed society, the Establishment cannot survive without the obedience and loyalty of millions of people who are given small rewards to keep the system going: the soldiers and police, teachers and ministers, administrators and social workers, technicians and production workers, doctors, lawyers. . . . They become the guards of the system, […]

How Anti-Authoritarians Can Transcend their Sense of Hopelessness and Fight Back

AlterNet September 30th, 2011

Critical thinking anti-authoritarians see the enormity of the military-industrial complex, the energy-industrial complex, and the financial-industrial complex. They see the overwhelming power of the U.S. ruling class. They see many Americans unaware of the true sources of their oppression or with little knowledge of the strategies and tactics necessary to overcome it. They see American […]

How Can Anti-Authoritarian Critical Thinkers Rise Above Their Pessimism and Fight?

September 30th, 2011

Critical thinking anti-authoritarians see the enormity of the military-industrial complex, the energy-industrial complex, and the financial-industrial complex. They see the overwhelming power of the U.S. ruling class. They see many Americans unaware of the true sources of their oppression or with little knowledge of the strategies and tactics necessary to overcome it. They see American […]

American Political Passivity, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Building a Base: Talk at the Military-Industrial Complex at 50 Conference

Z Net September 22nd, 2011

I want to begin by explaining how a clinical psychologist ends up giving the final talk at a conference on the military-industrial complex. Actually, for many years now, I’ve been writing and speaking about—and fighting against—another industrial complex, the pharmaceutical-industrial complex, specifically the psycho-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. All these industrial complexes are painful similar in their revolving […]

The “Military Industrial Complex at 50” Conference: American Political Passivity, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Building a Movement Base

Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA September 18th, 2011

Talk at the “Military Industrial Complex at 50” Conference, Charlottesville, VA

September 18th, 2011

American Political Passivity, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Building a Base

The Battle for Brooklyn: The Abuse of Eminent Domain

CounterPunch September 6th, 2011

Do we really accept that Big Money—through intimidation, bribery, or some other coercion—can shove us out of our homes and obliterate our communities? Eminent domain is the government’s right to seize private property, usually with compensation, for the public good. We live in a nation, however, in which the elite—not ordinary Americans—have the power to […]

Battle for Brooklyn and Eminent Domain Abuse

September 6th, 2011

Do we really accept that Big Money—through intimidation, bribery, or some other coercion—can shove us out of our homes and obliterate our communities? Eminent domain is the government’s right to seize private property, usually with compensation, for the public good. We live in a nation, however, in which the elite—not ordinary Americans—have the power to […]

3 Things That Must Happen for Us To Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy

AlterNet August 26th, 2011

Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but don’t have the tools to fight back. Here are three things we need to create a real people’s movement. Transforming the United States into something closer to a democracy requires: 1) knowledge of how we are getting screwed; 2) pragmatic tactics, strategies, and solutions; and 3) the […]

3 Requirements—Including 2 Oft Ignored—for the Defeat of the Corporate Elite

August 26th, 2011

Transforming the United States into something closer to a democracy requires: (1) knowledge of how we are getting screwed; (2) pragmatic tactics, strategies, and solutions; and (3) the “energy to do battle.” The majority of Americans oppose the corporatocracy (rule by giant corporations, the extremely wealthy elite, and corporate-collaborator government officials), however, many of us […]