for a major reason for the concentrated. honest fanatic attack on unions and organized labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights grocery market or a general. anesthetic interferes with the prerogatives heard by those who own and manage inside it. i should say said andy union sentiment in the united states among the leads is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions u.s. has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone among major societies in their

respect. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. her number that the us has a lawn a very violent labor history as. society. had been very strong about the one nine hundred twenty. period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich. her. by the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. franklin delano roosevelt. so if it was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be

in the benefit of the general population nobody had to somehow get it passed so he informed labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is going to demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the popular pressures fish and i'll be able could through the legislation you know i am not for a were. killed last definition number eleven day and hour which many say three people were being gradually to read your mind in. tripoli feel. i prefer that brought out information. so there was a kind of a combination of the a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial focus or activism . there were industrial action there were sit down strikes which were very

frightening to. ownership. have to recognise 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 you're in the business press say in the late thirty's they were talking about the hazard facing industrialists and 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. test partly yack. yack. to restart many ave in labor management relation. to mccarthyism was used for a massive corporate propaganda offensive. to attack union. increased sharply during

the reagan years and reagan pretty much told the business world if you want to illegally break bergen izing efforts in 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 continue to the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof by now less than seven percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect is that the usual counterforce 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 you're 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 the wage labor as not very different from slavery to the different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. well there was a very sharp class consciousness and 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 one 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 sing 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 while down. as one of the last known while very singular. whom are aware of the kind. of the ideal is which actually seemed to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free said area afternoon all 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 knowing who 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 a 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 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 marks the much she calls the hopi changey stuff she's right first of all obama didn't really promise anything so this mostly allusion 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. more and more it is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. it was

a public being marginalized. the money philosophy is dead right so the money velocity was a measure of how money is being along down from bank to bank to bank bank which is a measure of economic health is dead and if the money printing continues to increase sunset i'm asking the question why is the money not getting into the economy they're printing more of it. on.

it than saying. just a second how you and the segment m.-f. out of that you know comedic passage comes out the voice and it never was never post i know.

because i was going on the phone one small fight will make an important moment in my my life one has been brought up until november so the federal focus of that a. lot of. their father had i think. she will use or as you make a. general bar for the sun on my last book you go to the british course there's an off camera. i mean the guy that in the course of the weather the other. fifty.

of the leading political scientists. in the study of the relation to. what issues that about seventy percent of the delusion has moved. way of influencing. they might as well be and some other country. and the population knows . what it's led to is a population that angry frustrated and hates institutions. and it's not acting constructively to try to respond to that. there is popular mobilization and activism but in very self destructive direction. taking the form of unfocused anger 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 hate and fear each other and look out only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. one place you see it strikingly is on april fifteenth. april fifteenth is a kind of a measure the day of prayer taxes of how democratic a society is a different city 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 the solution celebrated the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's

a day in which some in power has nothing to do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you can be keep from doing. well 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. be. the tendencies that we've been describing within american society unless there are reversed 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. a

society in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so are there any betrayal sport in which they're going 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. if a society is based on controlled 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 and any society made a small society based on that principle is a good way to consume. 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 leading social philosopher of the late twentieth century here argued that until all. 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 society. it's essentially true.

where there are structures of authority domination and hire 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 say 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 first in the world and it's not in the bill of rights on the constitution and freedom of speech issues began to come to the supreme court in the early twentieth century. the major contributions came in i. nine hundred sixty one cleveland was a case in going 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 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 trouville 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 some very very serious defects in our. culture. which are going to have to be corrected by operating outside of work 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 area carrying out proces based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers or separate process. to try to do things you learn you learn that with the world it's like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. there's 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 there's a lot can be done if people organize struggle for the right system if done in the past and you 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. there's a ones who have done things in the past the angelus do it future. luke

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i got. married. into. the room. the tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been frayed only implement from the inside venezuela things look different we're

going to announce sanctions against petroleum to venezuela so as you. have a son of a moment goes. down and put a long battle scene on the moon the people of the moment the focus of the who story isn't new makes him cold in henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated that in latin america. an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make. the chilean economy scream so what's now making the economy of venezuela screed. i think contests are b.s. tended not to. lose their also because there is this still the opportunity to. say. to same the position of serbia in the context.

of the international law we are more more on the serbian side i think not on notice of twenty four months also on the just fine though we got in peace i'm alone in the nobility of all borders. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising. or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you can think i was going to do.

by the way what is the fly here. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. over the. the.

a bomb shelter poll it alleges that a group of american mercenaries illegally traveled to haiti to help the caribbean country's president because holiday and eighteen million dollars as we speak to. be injured he. many of them without. their parents or without going through immigration without coast from state coming with well from. the u.k. a two week break that deadline extension is prime minister theresa may fails to get support in an increasingly fractious polman. and students at king's college london claim they will fall from attending classes because of that approach power.