A major reason for the concentrated on us fanatic attack on unions our guys labor is they are a democratizing force. To provide a barrier that defends workers rights but also popular rights generally. Then if that interferes with the pariah that is now or for those who own and manage a society. I should say that anti union sentiment in the United States among elites is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights the basic principle in the International Labor organization is the right of Free Association which would mean the right to form unions and us has never ratified. I think the us may be a lot of major societies in that respect. Its considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. Herber that the us has a. Very violent labor history as. Society. But the Labor Movement had been very strong about the 1920 s. In a period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich. Buried. By the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. For france and doesnt roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to get it passed so he informed the labor leaders and others forced me to do it. What he meant is it going to help demonstrate were going to protest develop the Labor Movement. When the packers pressures fission and be able can through the legislation you know i am not for a were. Still last definition number 11 a i doubt which many as a freebie blow well being gradually read your man then into the senate friendly deal. I prefer that brought out information. So there was a kind of a combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirtys very substantial benefit or activism. There were industrial actions there were the sit down strikes which were very frightening to. Ownership. Have to recognize a sit down strike is just one step before saying we dont need bush that we can run this player sales. And business was told you read the Business Press say in the late thirtys they were talking about to the hazard facing industrialists and the rising political power of the masses which has to be repressed things were on hold during the 2nd world war but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in force and test courtly act. To restart any quality in Labor Management relations. In the currency is and was used for a massive corporate propaganda offensives to attack union. Increased sharply during the reagan years and reagan pretty much told the Business World if you want to illegally break urbanizing efforts and strikes go ahead they are in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated to continue the ninetys and of course with george w. Bush went through the roof by now less than 7 percent of the private Sector Workers have unions. The effect is that the usual counterforce to an offensive or highly class conscious Business Class as does oath. If youre in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness. For yourself but all limited everywhere else here back to the 19th century in the early days of the Industrial Revolution in the United States working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded. Wage labor as not very different from slavery a different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. Well that was a very sharp class consciousness and the interests of power and privilege its good to drive those ideas out of peoples heads you dont want them to know that theyre an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks dont talk about class in fact the National Class is very simple who gives the orders who follows and that basically defines class its more nuanced and complex but thats basically it. The Public Relations industry the Advertising Industry which is dedicated to creating consumers its a phenomenon developed in the freest countries in britain and the United States and the reason is pretty clear it became clear by a say a century ago that it was not going to be so easy to control of population by force too much freedom in one. Labor organizer in Parliamentary Labor Party as in many countries women started to get the french as and so on she had to have other means of controlling people and it was understood and expressed they have to control them by control of. Beliefs and attitudes well one of the best ways to control people in terms of attitudes is what the great political economists there stand blind called fabricating consumers. If you can fabricate a want to. Make obtaining things that are just about within your reach the essence of life theyre going to be trapped into becoming a consumers. And you read the Business Press say 920 s. It talks about the need to direct people to the superficial things of life like fashionable consumption and that will keep them out of our hair. You find this doctrine all through progressive intellectual thought but Walter Lippmann the major progress of intellectual of the 20th century. He wrote famous progressive essays on democracy in which his view was exactly that the public must be put in their place so that the responsible men can make decisions without interference from the be willed and heard. There to be spectators not participants then you get a properly functioning democracy straight back to madison on to the polls memory and so on and the Advertising Industry just exploded. With with this as its goal fabricating consumers. And its done with great sophistication. Many whilst down. As one of the last known while very singular. Whom are aware of the kind. Of the ideal is which you actually see need to did. Were lets see teenage girls they have a free set or afternoon well go walking in a shopping mall. On the library or somewhere else. The idea is to try to control everyone to turn the whole society into the perfect system. Perfect system would be a society based on a diet of pair the pair is you and your Television Set or maybe knowing who in the internet. In which that presents you with would. The proper life would be with trying to get education and you spend your time and effort to gaining those things which you dont need you dont want maybe to throw away. But thats the measure of a decent life. What we see is in say advertising on television if youve ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices well if we had a system like that a market system in a Television Ad would consist of say General Motors putting up information saying heres what we have for sale a samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs a football hero you know an actress or the car doing some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something the point is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices thats what advertising is all about. And when the same institutions p. R. System runs elections they do it the same way. They want to create an uninformed electorate which will make irrational truisms go off against their own interests and we see it every time one of these extravaganzas take place. Right after the election. President obama won an award from the Advertising Industry for the best Marketing Campaign and was reported here if you go to the international Business Press executives were euphoric you know they said weve been selling candidates marketing candidates like you know toothpaste ever since reagan and this is the greatest achievement we have i dont usually agree with therapy. And but when she mocks the much she calls the hopi changey stuff shes right 1st of all obama didnt really promise anything but thats mostly illusion you go back to the Campaign Rhetoric and take a look at it has very little discussion of policy issues and for very good reason because Public Opinion on poesy is sharply disconnected from what the 2 Party Leadership and their financial backers want. Poesy more and more it is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. It was a public being marginalized. Or. What politicians do. You put themselves on a line they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Or some want. To do right to be press its like im a 43 in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the water in the. First super bowl. All of us will hopes it has been absolutely true of babies but say its about having their peers even in death and dying babies even if you never heard of same love that you will love tickles by a parents. And then we learn how to use this in a more complex way i am one of the things that we learn is to have joined in with love to contagiously to love and somebody else even if you dont know why theyre laughing. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks a population of tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes was striking to put these attacks was. At the r. U. C. The Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing they were active participants and the burly of full streets in belfast at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians when ludovic as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the crates which the collusion was involved in some of those cases they killers would later be named into the enemy gang i think it went to the very very top i think it is the thought process the water where all the taste since you thought was going on and gave the go ahead. God. Of the leading political scientists. Around the verse 30 of the relation will get into. What he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of. The images will be interim other countries. And the population. What its led to is a population that angry frustrated and hate institutions. And its not acting constructively to try to respond to that. There is Popular Mobilization and activism but in very self destructive directions. Taking the form of unfocused anger attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets thats what happens in cases like this. It is corrosive of social relations but thats the point the point is to make people hate and fear each other and look at only for themselves and dont do anything for anyone else. One place you see it strikingly is on april 15th. April 15th as a kind of a measure the day of prayer taxes of how democratic a society is a different sleep if a society is really democratic april 15th would be a day of celebration its a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and activities that they have formulated agreed upon which could be bettered that station celebrated the way it is needed state its a day of mourning its a day in which some italian power has nothing to do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you can they keep from doing. That is a kind of a measure of the extent to which at least in popular consciousness democracy is actually functioning. Not a very attractive picture. Be tendencies that weve been describing within American Society and those there are reversed its going to be an extremely ugly society im a society thats based on adam smiths final maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. A society in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so of their eventual sport in which theyre going driven out. That society so ugly i dont even know whod want to live in it i wouldnt want my children to. Defend the society is based on control by private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect. A value that is green and the desire to maximize personal game at the expense of others any society made a Small Society based on that principle is a good way to consider. A Global Society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction. And i dont think were smart enough to design in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like i think we can give some guidelines and more significant we can ask how we can progress in that direction. John dewey the leading social philosopher of the late 20th century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. Media unless theyre all on. Participatory democratic control no we will not have a functioning democratic society. As he put it policy will be the shadow cast by business over a society. Thats centrally true. Where there are structures of authority domination and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them as they are not selfjustifying they have to justify themselves their burden of proof to me. Will if you take a close look usually find they can justify themselves as they can without to be dismantling. Trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice way dismantling that form of Illegitimate Authority and in fact progress over the years but well thankfully recognize as progress has been just that the way things change is because lots of people are working all the time and you know theyre working in their communities in their workplace or wherever they happen to be and theyre building up the basis for popular movements which are going to make changes and thats the way everything has ever happened in history. Takes a freedom of speech. One of the real achievements of American Society its 1st in the world and its not in the bill of rights its time that the constitution and freedom of speech issues began to come to the Supreme Court and in the early 20th century. The major contributions came in the 1960 s. One of the leading ones was a case of knowing the Civil Rights Movement well but then you had a massive party. Her movement which was demanding rights. Refusing to back down and in that context the Supreme Court did establish a pretty High Standard freedom of speech or it takes a womens rights. Women also because identifying oppressive structures refusing to accept them or he go their people to join with them. Thats her right to return. To trouville extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism camilla doesnt show up publicly but you know. Terribly good it was not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defects flaws in our. Culture and. Which are going to have to be corrected by operating outside of work that is commonly accepted i think were going to have to find new ways but it has. Been the activists or people who have created the rights that we enjoy. In the army carrying out a policy is based on information that theyre receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers or separately process. To try to do things you learn you learn that with the world its like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. Theres huge opportunity it is a very free Society Still the freest world. Government has fairly limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to coerce but there are mechanisms. So theres a lot to be done if people organize struggle for the right system if done in the past and can win many victories. Close friend for many years later howard zinn. To put it in his words that what matters is the countless small deeds of unknown people who lay the basis for the significant events that enter history. Theres a once whos done things in the past the ones alist do it future. Another. Concern. Me. In. Another. League. Existed. In a big. Big. Dog exhibited by going to. Beg. To beg her to clear. Into. The room. Vegas cruel sexual. 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