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. girl for a major reason for the concentrated honest fanatic attack on unions and organized labor as they are democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights but also popular rights generally.

and if that interferes with the prerogatives our for those who own and manage inside it. 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 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 sadie's and their respect. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. or that the us has a law on very violent labor history as. society.

but the labor movement had been very strong by the 1920 s. in a period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich. buried . by the mincer is a beacon to reconstruct. truth doesn't or is felt 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 labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is it going to help demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the popular

pressures fish and i'll be able can through the legislation you know i am not for a were. you last definition of a day and hour which. is a freebie well being gradually read your mind in endless. friendly deal. i prefer that broad definition. so there was a kind of combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial but peter activism. there were industrial action there were sit down strikes which are very frightening to. ownership. have to recognise 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 thirties 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 2nd world war but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in force. test partly as a. tourist start any quality in labor management. and of course the ism 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 klyce is dissolved. if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else you know 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 that 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 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 them 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 in one. labor going to sing a parliamentary labor party as 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 and wishes for you 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 which you actually see need to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free set or afternoon we'll 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 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 somber 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 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 therapy. well when she mocks the. hopi changey stuff she's right 1st of all obama didn't really promise anything that's mostly illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at this 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. more and more is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. with the public being marginalized.

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political scientists more. study of the relation will go to. what issues that about 70 percent of the population has no way of. the. it is 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. his 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 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 15th. april 15th as a kind of a measure that they appear 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 would be better than that solution celebrated the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some is in power you know 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. b. . the tendencies that we've been describing within american society and those 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 to be a true 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. 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 game at the expense of others and 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 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 here argued that until all institutions production come. murs. 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 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 1st in the world and it's not in the bill of rights the 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 involving the civil rights movement well by 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 all right to return. to trouville extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism the minute doesn't show up publicly but you know. terribly good it was 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 it has. been the activists or people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the area carrying out policies based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers or separate process. you 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 for his world. government has fairly limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to coerce but there are mechanisms. so there's 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. there's a ones who've done things in the past the angelus do it future. lose

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