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Interview: Holly Sklar
by Chip Berlet, September 2004
New Internationalist: You have given several interviews
where you make a clear distinction between your work and the work of
conspiracists. Why is this imporant to you as a progressive analyst?
Sklar: When I write about influential elite planning groups such
as the Trilateral Commission, I don't portray them as omnipotent
puppet masters manipulating politicians and policies in a vast
conspiracy. Elite planning groups work to forge consensus among
their own members
on key issues and then work to put shared views into practice.
These power players are more successful when they face less opposition
from other elite national and international planning groups,
and when progressive opponents are distracted, divided and ineffective.
When progressives grab onto conspiracy theories it undermines
effective strategic analysis, planning and action. It plays into
the hands of nonprogressive forces looking to sway more people with
their absurd and malicious antisemitic conspiracy theories and underlying
antisemitism. And it makes progressive change even more difficult
to achieve.
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New Internationalist
The Complete Interviews
Books by Holly Sklar
- Sklar, Holly, ed. 1980.
Trilateralism: The Trilateral
Commission and Elite Planning for World Management. Boston:
South End Press.
- Sklar, Holly. 1986.
Reagan, Trilateralism and the Neoliberals: Containment and Intervention
in the 1980s. Pamphlet No. 4.
Boston: South End Press.
- Sklar, Holly. 1988.
Washington's War on Nicaragua. Boston,
MA: South End Press.
- Medoff, Peter and Sklar, Holly. 1994.
Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. Boston, MA: South End Press.
- Sklar, Holly. 1995. Chaos
or Community?: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad
Economics. Boston: South End Press.
- Sklar, Holly. 1995. “The Dying American Dream and
the Snake Oil of Scapegoating.” In Chip Berlet ed.), Eyes
Right! Challenging the Right Wing Backlash (pp. 113–134).
Boston: South End Press.
- Collins, Chuck, Sklar, Holly, Leondar-Wright, Betsy, and
United for. 1999.
Shifting
Fortunes: Tthe Perils of the Growing American Wealth Gap. Boston, MA: published by United for a
Fair Economy.
- Sklar, Holly, Mykyta, Laryssa, and Wefald, Susan. 2001.
Raise the Floor:
Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us. Cambridge, MA:
South End Press.
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