additionally plenty of flaws 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 her major reason for the concentrated honest fanatic attack on unions are organized labor as they are democratizing forth . to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights but also popular rights generally. and that interferes with the prerogatives our of those who own and manage inside.

i should say said and a 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 sides in every space. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. her number the us has a law on her of our own labor history as. society. had been very strong about the 1920. period not unlike today it was virtually crushed. very.

young and. by the mid series it began to reconstruct. franklin delano roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population nobody had to get it passed so he informed labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is go out demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the popular pressures fission and be able can through the legislation you know i am not for a were. killed last definition number 11

a i doubt which many. great people well being gradually read your mind in. truly 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 but bitter activism. there were industrial action there were sit down strikes which were 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 yourselves. and business was told you're in the business press say in the late thirty's they were talking about the hazard facing and. stria lists 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 pitched 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 bergen izing 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 to 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. not 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 and 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 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 there stand 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 which you actually see need to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free cetera afternoon we'll go walking in a shopping mall not the library or somewhere else. the idea is to try to control everyone has 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 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 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. when she mocks the much 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 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. more and more is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. who is the public being marginalized. and we're going to fulfill the repeated promises. to the people. you know we all but. it was. pretty.

pretty good. if you want to. know. all. 5 the link i can make i can link out my you. in the troubled 970 s. a group of killers rampage through. and that was coordinated loyalist attacks to take the only population. are forced to flee. their homes i'm up was striking up with these attacks was that the r.u.c. the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were

active participants and the burning of whole streets in belfast at that time more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the crates which the killers and was involved in some of those cases the killers would later be named the glenna again and i think it went to the very very top i think it is a process that was there where all the patients you thought was going on and gave the go ahead.

of the leading political scientists martin jones came out the list study of the relation public attitudes and. what he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. they might as well be interim other countries . and the population knows. what it's led 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 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 to hate and fear each other and look out only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. play she see it strikingly as on april 15th. they were 15th is going to measure the day if they are taxes of how democratic a society is a different place 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 bettered their station 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 if you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything it can they keep from doing it. though 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 a verse it's going to be an extremely ugly society i mean to say hey 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 the mutual 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 would want my children to. get 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 20th 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 and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them as they are not self-justifying do they have to justify themselves 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 it or 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 in the bill of rights on the on 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 there p. . to join with them. that's her right to return. to trouville

extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism into that doesn't show up publicly but. terribly good at it and not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defects flaws 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 what is right. but the activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the arctic carrying out policies based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers are separate process. 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.

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 to be done if people organize struggle for the right system if done in the past and can win many victories. my close friend for many years later howard zinn. put it in his words that what matters is the countless small deeds of unknown people who lay the basis for the significant of this. that know her history. they're the ones who've done things in the 1st the littlest future.

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