“the american ideology: an unmitigated economic liberalism, masked by a parareligious discourse and packaged with insipid rhetoric about democracy.”

“american political culture has been shaped by the establishment of new england, the genocide of the continent’s indigenous peoples, the enslavement of africans, and the emergence of communities segregated by ethnicity as a result of waves of migration t/o the 19th century.”

“at no point in the course of their revolt against the british monarchy did the american settlers seek to transform economic and social relations – they simply refused to continue sharing the profits from them with the mother country’s ruling class.”

“[slavery’s abolition] had nothing to do w/morality – it only happened because slavery no longer served the cause of capitalist expansion.“

“[immigrants] left their lands as victims. emigration also meant renouncing the collective struggle to change the conditions in their country of origin; they exchanged their suffering for the host country’s ideology of individualism & pulling oneself up by one’s boot straps.”

“these two factors which shaped the historical formation of american society — a dominant biblical ideology and the absence of a workers’ party — combined to produce a wholly novel situation: a system run by a de facto single party, the party of capital.”

“as a result, the US state exists exclusively to serve the economy (i.e. capital). the state is able to function in this way for one main reason: because the historical process which formed american society blocked the development of the working classes’ political consciousness.”

“the unprecedented and systematic use of disinformation – can then serve their purpose, by isolating critics and subjecting them to a permanent and odious form of blackmail. In this way, the establishment can easily manipulate ‘public opinion’ by cultivating its stupidity.”

“US hegemony ultimately depends on its disproportionate military power, rather than on any specific “advantages” of its economic system. thanks to this power, the US can pose as the uncontested leader of the global mafia whose “visible fist” will impose the new imperialist order“

“had they reacted in 1935 or 1937, europeans would have been able to halt the nazi madness before it did so much harm. by delaying until 1939, they contributed to its tens of millions of victims.”

—samir amin ( http://patrimoinenumeriqueafricain.com:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/444/1/american%20ideology%20%2Cenglish-converti.pdf)