
David H. Price | American Surveillance State, Dual Use Anthropology, & The Restrict Act
J. Edgar Hoover, Capitalism and the FBI's Institutional Role
The legacy of J. Edgar Hoover is examined not just as a personal failing, but as an inevitable product of 20th-century capitalism. Citing former CIA officer Philip Agee, Price argues that intelligence agencies act as "secret police" for corporate America, targeting activists who threaten economic structures. Groups fighting for racial and gender equality in the 1950s and 60s were labeled communists by the FBI to protect the existing economic layering of society.









