usually plenty of flow has but with all its flaws it's been in a forefront of a efforts to improve the lives of the general population that's organist labored so so a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which because lead to corporate tyranny earl her of major reason for the concentrated on a asked fanatic attack on uniontown organized labor is they are a democratize and forth to provide a barrier that defendants are workers rates crows are popular edge generally earl then or that interferes with see a parag it is now her of for those who own and manage is so i had it i should say

zad andy union center i'm in the united states among a leads is so strong that the fundamental couper of of labor raids 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 so i think the us maybe a loon amman majors side he's an every speck it's considered so for out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been consider her number than yours has or lawn hurry violent labor history his her society but the rim had been very strong the by than 1920 days in period not on like today who is virtually crushed rock driver very.

young and. by the mid series it began to reconstruct. her friends a dozen or roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to chris if legislation that would be an invention 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 going to help demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the popular pressures fission and be able could through the legislation you know i am not for a we're. still last definition number 11 a i doubt which many. great

people well being gradually read your mind in endless. family feel. i prefer that broad definition. so there was a kind of combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial funkier activism . there were industrial action there were sit down strikes which are very frightening 2. 100 ships. have to recognize a sit down straight is just one step before saying we don't need bushes we can run this by ourselves. and business was told to read the business press say in the late thirty's they were talking about the hazard facing in the us. realists in 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. test courtly a. tourist start any quality in labor management. in the course 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 continued the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof by now less than 7 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. no 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 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 the wage labor as not very different from slavery and 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 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 of 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 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 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 after noon on a 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 now who in the internet. in which that presents you with would. the proper life would be what to engage 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 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 choices so often 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 sarah pail and when she mocks the but she calls the hopi changey stuff she's right 1st of all obama didn't really promise anything and that's. mostly illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric can take a look at it this very little discussion of poesy issues and for very good reason

because public opinion on poesy is sharply disconnected from what the to portie leadership and there are financial backers in want poesy even more and more it is focused on see private interests that fund the campaigns it was a public being marginalized joined me every thursday on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to yes of the while the politics spall that's less i'm showbusiness i'll see of than said she stressed to make sure that the british and the bill of india.

south asia was thank you she didn't taste the taste to she's a cia which quite all shall. go to which she never happened and i know what you mean and i must get your carmona man for sure and. want to talk to me show through my if you're going to be. good to mr ellsworth. with spirit or with or through this interview for you both to do just that it's a studio surely that must be revoked for sure. and speedy. expressed. the barbarians that vandals on wall street are now actively plundering your bank account with a negative interest rate in astronomy canonic policy there and there's no economics behind it that would chew to any school of economics that has ever existed as dr

michael hudson said since the bronze age it's just out right or fair enough as of. today there are good tennis and bad deadens the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the good that it is those who are in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right away military funding and arming death squads there's no end in more because there's always a small income for a really good this and for profit. one

of the leading political scientists martin guillen's came out with a study of the relation between public attitudes and. what he showed is that about 70 percent of the population has no 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 this. 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 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. one place you see it strikingly is on april 15th. they were 15th is going to measure the day if they are taxes of how democratic a society is a different city if a society is really democratic april 15th 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 big. so you should celebrate the wait is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some alien power you know 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 her attractive picture. 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 of their debut to a sport in which they're going driven out. that society is 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 that lead to maximize personal game at the expense of others any society made a small society based on that principle is a good way to control. a global society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction. 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 in the late 20th century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. media unless they're all under participatory democratic control who 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 and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them they are not self-justifying they have to justify themselves and their burden of proof 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 the 1st in the world in that it's not 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 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 s. one of the leading ones was a case of going 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 a non-trivial extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism camilla doesn't show up publicly but you know i should

not terribly good it was not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defects draws in air. which are going to have to be corrected by operating outright 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 are separate from 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 opportunities 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 to be done if people organise struggle for the right susan is done best and can win many victories commune. close friend for many years later cowards in. to put in his word that what matters is the countless small deeds of the gnome people who lay the basis for the significant events that enter history. there's a ones who have done things in the past the mentalist do it future. lugar

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