LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Donald Marshall, Jr., Manufacturing Consent, Institutional Racism
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The exploiting class always strives to turn itself into a ruling class by means of an institutional structure. , the state, which operates to sustain and to reproduce that position. While the state is a product of class antagonism it takes in the appearance of being an entity which stands above society and which embodies the interests of the community as a whole. The question comes to legitimacy and authority, the state project itself as independent, legitimate because it is political and it stand itself from all of us. In the short term, we can hold a gun to someone"s head and tell them what we want them to do, however that will not efficient to hold it for a long term. You are manufacturing consent when consent is not provided, as a general point, consent can often times be fabricated: conclusion: it is this ability .
