Herbert Schiller Quotes

American media critic (1919–2000)

Herbert Irving Schiller (November 5, 1919 – January 29, 2000) was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He earned his PhD in 1960 from New York University.

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Alternative Names: Herbert I. Schiller • Herbert Irving Schiller • H.I. Schiller

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Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.