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Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Money and the World It Creates -- Astounding Facts on Polarization of Wealth and Poverty -- The Dominant Class -- Economy, Society, Culture, and Polity: The Four Principal Means of Plutocratic Rule -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Political Economy of Financialization and Its Consequences -- Crisis -- Financial Instruments, Not Jobs, Schools, or Clean Energy -- The Norm of Economic Stagnation -- Income/Wealth Distribution and Stagnation -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Degenerative Development and Class Transformation -- The Working Class Today -- The Underclass of Immiserated People -- The Formation of the Middle Class -- The Intermediate Class and Its Fractions -- Internationalization, Accumulation, and Class -- Accumulation and the State -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Ideology as the Root of Plutocratic Rule -- Subverting Consciousness -- The Culture of Fear -- Cultural Myth and Fear -- Fear and Scapegoating -- Fear, Endless Fear -- The Subtle Side of Fear -- Capitalism and Morality -- Confronting Fear -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Ruling Class Rules by Subordinating Government to the Sway of Money -- Plutocracy -- State of National Insecurity -- The Lesser Evil -- Limitations to the Subjugation of the State to Plutocracy -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Rule by Divide and Conquer -- Ideology and Class Relations: Allies and Enemies of Real Change -- Plutocrats and Their Servants Get Off on Subordinating Women -- Stratification of the Working Class -- Immigrant Labor and Scapegoating -- The Interconnections of Racism, Sexism, Scapegoating and Other Evils in the Reproduction of the System -- Notes -- Chapter 8: The Ultimate Means of the Rule of Capital: Repression, Terror, and War -- Red Alert, Deadly Virus, WMASP -- Imperial Ambition and War -- On the Infamous, Satan Hussein -- A Super Rogue State -- Clear as Mud

AbstractThis chapter describes how the author; who at the time was a practicing psychologist, became personally involved in advocacy for persons with mental illness. He also gives an overview of the activities of several organizations that are, or should be, advocating for this vulnerable population. He describes several specific programs that he sees as exemplary. Finally, the author argues for an approach for improving care, which he feels family and consumer advocates can be particularly effective in implementing.

AbstractFamilies of the mentally ill have expressed dissatisfaction with services provided by professionals, but ways are now available for professionals and families to work together for their mutual benefit and for the benefit of the patient.

THIS ARITICLE IS AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS SPECIAL ISSUE ENTITLED RURAL CLASS RELATIONS WHICH IS, ALSO, PART 1 OF SEVERAL ISSUES ENTITLED SOCIAL CLASSES IN LATIN AMERICA. THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE QUESTIONS OF TO WHAT DEGREE THE DEPENDENCY FRAMEWORK CAN BE APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF THE FORMATION OF RURAL SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND AGRARIAN STRUGGLE AND MODE-OF-PRODUCTION TO RURAL CLASS RELATIONS.