Lewis Powell is a was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States appointed by the Nixon Administration

Powell is mostly known for being a Supreme Court Justice, where he was the deciding vote on First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, the landmark ruling that determined that, because corporations are people they must also have a constitutional right to the freedom of speech, the decision ushered in the era of PACs and SuperPACs as well as laying the groundwork for the 2008 Citizen's United decision.

But he also wrote a memo which has became extremely influential in American conservative which fits right in place with the rise of the rise of corporate America through The Powell Memorandum

Main points In This Are…

• He sparked a set of private charitable foundations many such as The Cato Institute, The Mercatus Center, The Heartland Institute, The Heritage Foundation, The Competitive Enterprise Institute, etc. These are all funded by Koch Brothers which being promoting climate denial
• These private charitable foundations Powell's vision of a pro-business, anti-socialist, minimalist government-regulated America as it had been in the heyday of early American industrialism, before the Great Depression and the rise of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
• This has became a blueprint of the rise of the American conservative movement and the formation of a network of influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organisations. Marxist Economic David Harvey points this to the rise of neoliberalism in the US to this memo
• He also knew his biggest enemies were from places college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals and the arts and sciences and decided to start attacking these places (ie why collage debt is so high it makes you go feed into corporate machine)
• Powell advocated "constant surveillance" of textbook and television content, as well as a purge of left-wing elements
• Powell urged conservatives to take a sustained media-outreach program; including funding scholars who believe in the free enterprise system, publishing books and papers from popular magazines to scholarly journals and influencing public opinion.
  Basically they were in looking at the bigger picture in implementing what we have today 50 years ago…

Noah Chomsky has spoken about this document multiple times also

This is another video which explains it in video form

Full document below if anyones interested
greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-memo-a-corporate-blueprint-to-dominate-democracy

Like to hear your thoughts as i haven't seen many people bring it up..

Damn should hasn’t posted this during town hall debates

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I'll check it out when I have time.

I found it interesting how old the narrative of university creating leftist is. Also how it was Nixon who was the president during this, I'm curious if he is the most influential president. In the second video the dude mentions that there was an anti New Deal sentiment around that time, does anyone know why, I dont know much of the New Deal but I heard that it was widely successful. The Staff of Scholars and Speaker part in the Lewis Powell sounds hilarious to me cause it kinda sounds like affirmative action but for conservatives.

I mean, even if you're a leftist, it's not inherently a bad thing to recognize the reality that historically leftist ideology developed along a lineage tangential and/or parallel to academia...even things outside of literal political leftism which colloquially is associated with leftism in modern politics (i.e. Intersectionality) are a direct result of academia - Kimberly Crenshaw is a professor at UCLA. In Europe, developments of philosophy associated with now leftist movements - i.e. people like Foucalt, Althusser, etc. literally worked in Universities for their career. It's just a literal truth. You don't have to necessarily connect this to the rise of liberal and/or left sentiment in popularity among youth, but saying that Academia has no link to Leftism historically is just a straight up blatant lie

oh yea I agree my bad on using the word "narrative" I meant it was interesting to me since Im young seeing this debated all the way in the 70s way before I was born and its still a topic today.

oh okay, i get what you're saying then, i think i just misunderstood the point you were making

It’s basically biggest threat to their power is which why they have attacked those places. Chomsky pointed out putting yourself into massive debt by going to collage/uni forces you to go into the corporate machine

Lots of these quite true into today’s day in age and I found it very interesting that this document speak on ideas like this

Like the last point in mentioned is very true with rise of right wing media and which is became hugely popular with a lot people using it as their main view stance

A lot people have turned on collages and universities because people have perception of them being left wing biased

The two people I linked in the video both have left wing stance

yeah I got that I found it astounding that Chomsky paid 100 dollars for a year at collage. Reading through the document and s*** made me immediately think of Ben Shapiro its wild seeing how policy decision 50 years ago still have a huge effect to this day.

Exactly why I wanted to bring it up on here because most people don’t even about it. It makes quite a lot sense when you think about it

I wish more people knew about it and even on here KTT not many people really viewed the thread which is shame because we got look at this and see where exactly we went wrong and how future generations can combat this but right now it the political discourse is so toxic we can even get any progressive candidates in

They want you to be uneducated so they can employ worse policies for the worker and keep them suppressed

The destruction of unions have being to detriment and is main reason why I can’t f*** with libertarians

America and many other countries in next 50 years could have reduced poverty buy you will see something called a permanent under class which is quite common in counties like India or China. I think Richard wolf has spoken about this in the past

Scummy b******