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.

a major reason for the concentrated on off fanatic attack on unions are organized labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights but also popular rights generally. then it that it interferes with the pariah that is now or for those who own and manage the society. 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 right of free association which would mean the right to form unions u.s. has never ratified. so i think the us may be alone among major sadie's and that

respect. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been. consider. herber that the us has a. very violent labor history as. society. but the labor movement had been very strong by the 1920 s. . period not unlike today it was virtually crushed. by the mincer is it began to reconstruct. or 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 going to help demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the packer pressures fission and be able to control the legislation you know i am not for a were. you last definition of a day and hour when many as a freebie blow well being gradually read your man 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 figure activism. there were industrial action there were sit down strikes which are 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 player sales. and business was told you 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 2nd world war but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in force and pitched hardly a. tourist start any quality in labor management. and the currency 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 and now less than 7 percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect is that the usual counterforce to an offensive are highly class conscious business clueless as does oath. know 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 where. and people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded. 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 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 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 of population by force too much freedom in one. labor organizer in parliamentary labor party as 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 a 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 him out of our hair. you find his 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 is 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 of our own kind. of the ideal is what 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 samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs in football hero you know an actress 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 you know 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. but 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 to go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at this very little discussion of o.o.c. issues and for very good reason because public opinion on poesy is sharply disconnected from what the 2 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. by 2020 presidential campaign is beginning to look a lot like the 2016 race but this time around the insurgent is bernie sanders who is not even a member of the democratic party voters again are not interested in establishment politicians in fact they appear to be rebelling against whom we see from sanders showdown. trade and investment of become magic spells to come to economic development. most people think about trade they think about goods and services being exchanged between countries and the

invest a chapter of a trade agreement is about something very different but what one investment leads to toxic manufacturing that destroys sacred sites all ruins the environment. that means local communities that are being poisoned if they object if they do anything that the company feels is interrupting their profits they can they serve. the nationals of taking on the whole nation philip morris is trying to use i.e. s.t.'s to stop oregon by implementing new tobacco regulations aimed at cutting domestic smoking rates a fringe company sued egypt because egypt resists minimum wage democratic choice of a trump corporate. joint says we try to fund don't want to. and

we're going to fulfill the repeated promises oh politics to the people and promise to be you know we've all pots the uterus. break free from. law. that you want to work. on no. longer. 5

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. place you see it strikingly is on the april 15th. april 15th is going to measure the day if they are taxes of how democratic a society is a different to the deficit how it is really democratic april 15th would be a day of so it. it's a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and activities that they have formulated agreed upon to be better than the situation celebrated

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 to do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you 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 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. aside in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so are there even to a sport in which they're going to 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. 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 that lead to maximize personal game at the expense of others any society has made a small as. it is a stand that principle is ugly but it can survive a global society based on that principle is headed for 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 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 they are not self-justifying and 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 if they can't we ought to be dismantling. trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice way dismantling that form of illegitimate authority and in fact progress over the years but we'll thankfully. recognizes 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 the 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 the show not terribly good it was not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defects flaws an error that error. which you're going to have to be corrected by operating out of it is commonly accepted i think we're going to have to find. the activists or 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 or separately. process. that you 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. 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 to be done if people organise struggle for the right to see if done in the past 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 unknown people who lay the basis for the significant events that enter history.

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