The Third Rome: Holy Russia, Tsarism and Orthodoxy (excerpted at The American Journal of Russian and Slavic Studies) by Matthew Raphael Johnson contains the following sentence as part of a rather confrontational paragraph: “In post-modern times, what mass semi-literacy has done is provide the state, as well as far more powerful private concentrations of capital, the ability and media to control far greater masses of people, all the while they believe themselves to be free.”

Tags: capitalism, history, literacy, mathew raphael johnson, russia