INTELLECT SURVEILLED: THORSTEIN VEBLEN AND THE ORGANS OF STATE SECURITY

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 00:02:22 PST 2006


INTELLECT SURVEILLED: THORSTEIN VEBLEN
AND THE ORGANS OF STATE SECURITY

By
Sylvia E. Bartley

http://www.elegant-technology.com/TVbarSI.html

selected quotes: ""
... Latent nativist fears in the United States surmounted class
divisions to forge a ground_swell of anticommunism. This fusion of
fear and myth, expressed as super-patriotism, would trample professed
democratic tenets and quickly led to blatant violations of
constitutional rights.

The United States Government first resorted to espionage against its
own citizens during the Civil War, while the Veblens were still
farming in Cato, Wisconsin. To perform this domestic surveillance, the
War Department hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency, which had
perfected such practices in previous anti-labor operations...

By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, political
detective units existed in most U.S. cities... In a climate of growing
war hysteria, the second decade of the century saw the rapid
development of collaboration between private and public police
networks nationwide...
""





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