Edward Bernays, Propaganda: comment manipuler l'opinion en démocratie, présentation de Normand Baillargeon, traduction d'Oristelle Bonis, Lux Éditeur, 2008 [1928 pour l'édition originale].
Noam Chomsky et Robert W. McChesney, Propagande, médias et démocratie, préface de Colette Beauchamp, traduction de Liria Arcal, Écosociété, 2000 [1997 pour l'édition originale].
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Voici un extrait de ce dernier titre:
« A more accurate term for a system that erases the boundaries between Big Government and Big Business is not liberal, conservative or capitalist but corporatist. Its main characteristics are huge transfers of public wealth to private hands, often accompanied by exploding debt, an ever-widening chasm between the dazzling rich and the disposable poor, and a aggressive nationalism that justifies bottomless spending on security. For those inside the bubble of extreme wealth created by such an arrangement, there can be no more profitable way to organize society. But because of the obvious drawbacks for the vast majority of the population left outside the bubble, other features of the corporatist state tend to include aggressive surveillance (one again, with government and large corporations trading favors and contracts), mass incarceration, shrinking civil liberties and often, though not always, torture. » (p.18)
Au lendemain de l'arrestation de plus 400 manifestants au centre-ville de Montréal dans le cadre de la grève étudiante, il y a de quoi se poser de sérieuses questions au sujet de la démocratie.
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/conflit-etudiant/201205/23/01-4528007-un-total-de-518-arrestations-a-la-30e-manifestation-nocturne.php
Pour en savoir davantage sur ce conflit, voici de la lecture:
http://www.courrierinternational.com/dossier/2012/05/24/le-printemps-erable
http://www.ledevoir.com/motcle/droits-de-scolarite/
