and therein lies a lesson that it was the upsurge of a militant organized working class that overcame for a while the tendency of capitalism to polarize. but the lesson here was better learned by the business andnd the ricich than by the wog people because the business and the rich went to work. no sooner was the war over, they went to work to undo what had been done in the 1930s. the economic history of the united states in the last 30, 40, 50 years has been the undoing of the new deal. that was the name roosevelt gave to what he did in the 1930s. from which the following lesson canan be further distilled. the problem for corporations and the rich, who keep running a system that plunges us into crisis after crisis, who have really no effective way to prevent them, who likewise tend to polarize into rich and poor, the problem for corporations and the rich is this--they've got an economic system that constantly provokes the mass of people intnto thinkg that they might be able to use the political system to offset the effects of the economic system. the danger for capitalism has been, if you actually give every