Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) Wikicommons/キヨンネ - Own work. Some rights reserved.
Invisibility is the essence of the radical view of power developed in 1959 by US sociologist C. Wright Mills, according to which concentrated power in late capitalist democracies was invisible, and no longer to be found in the observable decision-making and conflicts of day-to-day partisan politics. Two years later, it was echoed in the concept of a ‘military–industrial complex’, first articulated by the then US Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In his farewell address in 1961, Eisenhower issued a famous warning to the American people:
