Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy

by Corey Dolgon

How have powerful Americans convinced their fellow citizens to support policies beneficial only to the wealthy? Why have so many given up on public education, safe food and safe streets, living wages – even on democracy itself? Kill it to Save it lays bare the hypocrisy of US political discourse by documenting the story of capitalism’s triumph over democracy. As the Progressive Left tries to understand how President Trump came to power, Corey Dolgon documents his historical, political and cultural road map. Dolgon argues that American citizens now accept policies that destroy the public sector and promote political stories that feel right “in the gut”, regardless of science or facts. Covering the post-Vietnam era to present day, Dolgon dismantles US common sense cultural discourse and explains why the endless crisis in US policy will continue until American citizens recognize what has been lost, and in whose interest.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

330 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 5, 2017

Reviews

[Lyndon P Moors · Rating 5 out of 5]

Corey’s thoroughly researched and extensively annotated exposition of how the pursuit of profit and power have compromised American systems of education, health, economic security, and justice is all the more impressive for having been written before the election of Donald Trump. Howard Zinn would have been proud.

[Peidong · Rating 1 out of 5]

Essentially a book about the evils of neoliberalism and how it undermined democracy over the decades in the US context. While this is an important topic, this book is terribly written, and not worth anyone's time. Materials seem assembled in haste, and while the book has a lengthy bibliography, it doesn't feel the book has academic rigour. Often, cases or examples used are irrelevant, and it's written in an angry journalistic - and second-rate journalism at that - language. Ultimately, I could not complete reading it, and do not recommend anyone to spend time on this.

[Jeremy Kourvelas · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you want to read this book, read Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by Kurt Andersen instead.