thank. you. yes. right. there is one organized force which traditionally plenty of fluids but with all its

flaws it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the general population that's organized labor it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. her her major reason for the concentrated on a fanatic attack on unions are organized labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends their workers' rights but also popular rights generally. then if that interferes with the parada. it is an hour for those who own and manage

this site and i. should say said andy union sentiment in the united states among the leads is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights in the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions and us has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone among major sides in every speck. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. herber that the us has a lawn a very violent labor history as. society. but the labor movement had been very strong by the one nine hundred twenty s. in the period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich.

by the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. franklin delano roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to receive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to get it passed so he informed labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is you go out and demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the after pressures fish and i'll be able to get through the legislation you know i am not for. definition number eleven day and hour which many.

people were being gradually read your man bit into the. friendly feel. i prefer that brought out information. so there was a kind of combination of the a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial focus or activism . there were industrial actions there were sit down strikes which were very frightening to. ownership. have to recognize a sit down strike is just one step before saying we don't need bush that we can run this by yourselves. and business was told to read the business press say in the late thirty's they were talking about to the hazard facing industrialists in the rising political power of

the masses which has to be repressed things were on hold during the second world war but immediately after the second world war the business offensive began in force and test partly yack. yack. to restart any quality in labor management relation. to mccarthyism 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 forty eight hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated to continue to the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof and now. less than seven percent of private sector

workers have unions. the effect is that the usual counter force to an offensive or highly class conscious business class is dissolved. if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else here back to the nineteenth century in the early days of the industrial revolution and ignited states working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded that wage labor as not very different from slavery in 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 in the interests of power and privilege it's good

to drive those ideas out of people's heads you don't want them to know that they're an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks don't talk about class in fact the national class is very simple who gives the orders who follows and that basically defines class it's more nuanced and complex but that's basically it. the public relations industry the advertising industry which is dedicated to creating consumers it's 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 the population by force too much freedom and one. labor going to ising parliamentary labor parties 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 they're stunned blind called fabricating consumers. if you can fabricate want to. make obtaining things that are just about within your reach the essence of life they're going to be trapped into becoming a consumer's. and you read the business press say nine hundred twenty 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 twentieth 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 it's 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 what you actually see need to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free said area afternoon will go walking in a shopping mall not 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 now you in the internet. in which that presents you with would. the proper life would be with trying to gauge and you spend your time and effort to gaining those things which

you don't need you don't want maybe to throw away. but that's the measure of a decent life. what we see is in say advertising on television if you've 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 here's what we have for sale a samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs in football hero you know an actress in 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 that's 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 and 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 they said we've been selling candidates marketing candidates like you know toothpaste ever since reagan and this is the greatest achievement we have i don't usually agree with therapy. and when she mocks the much she calls the hopi changey

stuff she's right first of all obama didn't really promise anything for this mostly illusion to go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at this very little discussion of poesy issues and for very good reason because public opinion on poesy is sharply disconnected from what the two portie leadership and their financial backers want. poesy more and more it is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. who is a public being marginalized. breaks it killed on tonality. officer and then leave

toyota to get up off the ground in yasser began to pat him down. and then freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man the christening essentially of his are barely back through his return in the twisted away from the officer. of his career. he obviously did a kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and there would have been done she swung and i just didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two any kind went back to where they were so the answers back here they're high again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer saw that his guy needed time three . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have like crazy people foundation of let it be an arms race is often spinning dramatic developments. and going to resist i don't see how that

strategy will be successful very chaotic at a time time to just sit down and talk. to the leading political scientists martin guillen's came out for the study of the relation between public attitudes and. what he shows is that about seventy percent of the delusion has no way of influencing. the images will be and some other country. and the population knows. what its lead to is a population that angry frustrated hate institutions. and

it's not acting constructively to try to respond to this. there is popular mobilization and activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused bangor attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets that's what happens in cases like this. it is corrosive of social relations but that's the point the point is to make people to hate and fear each other and look at only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. place you see. it strikingly is on april fifteenth. april fifteenth is going to measure the day of prayer taxes of how democratic a society is a different league if a society is really democratic april fifteenth would be

a day of celebration it's a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and activities that they have formulated agreed upon which could be better than that so they should celebrate it the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some alien power you know has nothing do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything it can they keep from doing it. and that is a kind of a measure of the extent to which at least in popular consciousness democracy is actually functioning. not her attractive picture. be the tendencies that we've been

describing within american society unless they're reverse to it's going to be an extremely ugly society i'm a society that's based on adam smith's final maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. aside in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so they're e.b. to a sport in which they're kind of like driven out. that society so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it i wouldn't want my children to. give 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 gain at the expense of others and any society has made

a small society based on that principle is ugly but it can survive a global society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction. and i don't think we're 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 the leading social philosopher in the late twentieth century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. media unless they're all under participatory democratic control we will not have a functioning democratic society. as he put it policy will be the shadow cast by

business over a society. that's centrally true. where there are structures of authority domination higher somebody gives the orders somebody takes them as they are not self-justifying who they have to justify themselves and their burden to prove to me. will if you take a close look usually find they can't justify themselves to. they can't we ought to be dismantling. trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice but dismantling that form of illegitimate authority and in fact progress over the years

we'll 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 they're working in their communities in their workplace or wherever they happen to be and they're building up the basis for popular movements which are going to make changes and that's the way everything has ever happened in history. takes a freedom of speech. one of the real achievements of american society it's the first in the world in that it's not in the bill of rights it's time that the constitution and freedom of speech issues began to come to the supreme court in the early twentieth century. the major contributions came in the one nine hundred sixty s. one of the leading ones was a case involving the civil rights movement well but then you had a mass popular 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 women's right to women also began identifying oppressive structures refusing to accept them or he'd go their people to join with them well that's her right to return. to non-trivial extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism some of that doesn't show up publicly but you know i should not terribly good at it and not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly a very very serious defect was an error. which are going to have to be corrected by operating out. that is commonly accepted i think we're going to have to find new ways. but the activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the arctic carrying out cosies based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding

remembers are separate processes. they have agreed to try to do things you learn you learn what the world is like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. and there's huge opportunity it is a very free society still the freest world. government is very limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to coerce but there are mechanisms. so there's a lot can be done if people organise struggle for the right susan if done in the past and you can win many victories. with a. 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. they're the ones who've done things in the past the angelus do it future. early the eggs. group. in the group.

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know if i can say that i own for example all the brooklyn bridge then i when i sell a bond against the brooklyn bridge i sell a billion dollar multibillion dollar bond against the brooklyn bridge while the actually somebody's going to come and i say ok we'll deliver them the brooklyn bridge and i say why can't i don't have a deed just like in the two thousand a sub prime crisis there were no deeds for the houses that goldman sachs package says collateralized brokers obligations and then sold into the financial market then the wholesale derivatives market where they didn't have the deed they were just making stuff up by pulling rabbits out of their hat and selling that as a yielding security to pension funds but there's nothing there. more than. a shadow to get at one of those are they going to. run out of money for submission was honestly i'd left it out of the current.

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