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We focus primarily on the American scene but also cover world politics. "},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/-\/Nomad?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=2"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Nomad"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/-\/Nomad\/-\/Nomad?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=3\u0026max-results=2"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Nomad"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03686282358562565742"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"11"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"2"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-407281054887604200.post-2752044278631391694"},"published":{"$t":"2012-02-27T11:29:00.005+02:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2016-09-02T17:34:50.282+03:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"american dream"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"china"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Marx"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nomad"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"prosperity"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"American Dreams: My Father, Karl Marx and the Man who Sold the Rope 2\/2"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ci\u003EIn part one of this two-part series, I wrote of how the American dream had changed since my father's time. The promise of ever-increasing prosperity seems to belong to a shrinking minority. History had played an ironic joke on the West. While the Soviet Union was collapsing due to the pressure of union labor, the United States under Reagan was signaling to corporate America that unionized labor was to be discarded on the ''scrap heap of history.'\u003C\/i\u003E'\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2FQRKP5CzoLYkxzlanDiEQu_UNMqLjvmqItlazyfoVlHMH1X4qvXpvtrlMswaJSqxYHg2_2-sZgPDTWnmt2bTfQYteKRh7H0QKHJD2Qz2Z5yDNnyw6oLQ\u0026amp;container=blogger\u0026amp;gadget=a\u0026amp;rewriteMime=image%2F*\" style=\"clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/QRKP5CzoLYkxzlanDiEQu_UNMqLjvmqItlazyfoVlHMH1X4qvXpvtrlMswaJSqxYHg2_2-sZgPDTWnmt2bTfQYteKRh7H0QKHJD2Qz2Z5yDNnyw6oLQ\" height=\"169\" title=\"Graph: Productivity vs. Wages\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EAnd Then The Slow Decline\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: #cccccc; font-family: \u0026quot;times\u0026quot; , \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot; , serif; font-size: x-large;\"\u003EN\u003C\/span\u003Eow let's take a look at the consequences of this policy and who actually benefited.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAt one time, when the main challenge to capitalism was Communism, leaders of the free world touted rising consumption afforded by rising wages as a measure of its success.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nStarting around the 1980s, however, real wages and productivity, which once went hand in hand, decoupled. No longer did harder work mean higher wages. Productivity continued to rise- adding to the wealth of corporations- while wages remained steady. This trend has continued to the present day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAdditionally, access to easy credit has allowed the American citizen to shop and shop, giving, at least, the illusion of prosperity. But buying a lifestyle built on credit is a gamble because credit assumes that tomorrow will be as good or better than today. Life could be pretty good with a high credit limit. Especially with the flood of cheaply-priced merchandise on offer, all of it made possible by non-unionized workers in Asia and elsewhere.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EConsider these facts.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBefore credit became so widely available, personal savings rates were rising steadily each year. In 1960, Americans were saving 5.4% of their total income, It reached a high of 14.6% in 1975, and by 1982, it leveled off at 10.9%. But all that changed in the mid-1980s under Reagan when consumer credit became more commonplace.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAt that point, personal savings began dropping hitting an all-time low of just .09% in 2000 and it stayed low until the last few years. After hitting depression-era lows, it has been slowly rising again since 2008.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003ESaving Your Baby Bonds\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDuring the Depression, Franklin Roosevelt encouraged Americans to buy US savings bonds then called “baby bonds.” These bonds provided a safe investment option for investors- not a get rich quick scheme- and helped finance government operations and initiatives. It was true, as my mother told me, “a means of investing in the country.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEssentially, with the purchase of savings bonds you were lending the government money. Today, our government must borrow vast sums of money from China. Today we are told that the only way the economy will be on the rebound is by consumer spending, not consumer saving. Saving money for a rainy day is frowned upon. Spending like there’s no tomorrow is the answer. Even when that spending is on credit.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/credit\/etc\/script.html\"\u003EThe PBS Frontline report, \"The Secret \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/credit\/etc\/script.html\"\u003EHistory of the Credit Card\" lays out the case quite well:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs the deregulation of interest rates enabled more people to get credit cards, the industry began to expand and became the most profitable sector of banking, with $30 billion in profits last year...Today, nearly 144 million Americans have credit cards, and they are using their cards like never before, charging $1.5 trillion last year alone. Credit cards have become an essential part of the American economy.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWith all that convenience, it is easy to ignore the potential danger to the consumer. As Professor Elizabeth Warren points out:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd what families are discovering, even with Mom and Dad in the workplace, is they often can't make it to the end of the month, and so they often use credit cards to bridge the gap. They borrow to make ends meet. And then what happens is something goes wrong. Somebody loses a job, somebody gets sick, family breaks apart through death or divorce...\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe main things that triggers a bankruptcy filing are job loss, a medical problem or a family break-up. Without these things, most American families can deal with their credit card debt. But high credit card debt puts them at much great risk, so that if they stumble, if they get hit by one of the other blows, they get their feet tangled up in those high interest rates, and they just get sunk.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAll of these dramatic changes brought about the wholesale deregulation of various industries have caused people to question the entire capitalist system- as it has been allowed to evolve in the last thirty years. Most importantly, they ask where it is going and whether it is a sustainable model. Should self-respecting people tolerate a system such as this? But, of course, all this corruption was predicted well over a century ago- by a man named Karl Marx.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a2\/Marx_old.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a2\/Marx_old.jpg\" width=\"239\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EWhy Marx was Wrong and Right\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nI hear what you are saying. Oh no! Karl Marx and the Marxist theory were proven wrong. The workers did not spring up and overthrow their masters. Communism, or at least the perversion of it that emerged in the Soviet Empire, was proof that Marx got it wrong.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/authors\/2199\/Michael_Curtis\/index.aspx\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/authors\/2199\/Michael_Curtis\/index.aspx\"\u003EP\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/authors\/2199\/Michael_Curtis\/index.aspx\"\u003Erofessor of Political Science from Rutgers, Dr. Michael Curtis\u003C\/a\u003E, writing back in 1965, would have agreed. In his book \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/great-political-theories-volume-2-m-curtis\/1008635952\"\u003E“Great Political Theories”\u003C\/a\u003E he writes:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n“..(M)any of Marx’s predictions about the course of history have not been fulfilled. The condition of the working class in industrial countries has grown steadily better, not worse. class struggles have been reduced rather than intensified; the middle class and other classes between the capitalists and the proletariat have not been eliminated; state power has not withered away in communists countries, but has increased in scope and intensity; the supposed international solidarity of the working class has retreated before bellicose nationalism. Perhaps the greatest irony is that the social revolutions that have occurred have been, not in the most highly industrialized countries when “the conditions were ripe” as the theory predicted but in the less developed or undeveloped countries.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nEnd of story. Or is it? That was written back in 1965 and the battle of ideologies was still unfinished. It is probably even now not quite complete.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn any case, perhaps it’s important to ask why was Marx wrong? Capitalism has proven, at least, until recent years, to have been a smashing success and eventually triumphed over Communism.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSo where did Karl go wrong and what can we learn from it? The world that Marx saw and commented on was not the same world that evolved afterward. Many of the intolerable conditions that he witnessed were reversed or kept in check by four main factors:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Ethe growth of organized labor,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Ea strong government with effective regulating authorities,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Ea court that acted as a fair arbitrator and deliverer of the appropriate punishments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003Ea free press which served the public interest by being the indifferent observer, separate from corporate influence and from political bias.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWith these institutions in place, capitalism, tamed but dynamic, could be a world-changing force for good. Without them, life could be hell on Earth.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAdmittedly it was never a perfect system but it was good enough to allow a tolerable sense of democracy. It might not have been free from corruption but at least, it allowed each of us to cherish some precious bit of self-respect and individualism. While often as not, equality was more of an ideal to attain than a reality, there was a sense of constant improvement. Things would get better, if not for me, then for my children.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nUnions were there to protect the workers from capitalist excesses and exploitation.This allowed the growth of a middle class which stabilized society and contributed to the unprecedented growth we saw in the middle of the last century.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhen one sees the failure of Marxism in this light, it begins to make much more sense. It is only natural that Marx’s warnings were more appropriate to less developed countries (that were unable to use these capitalist-taming tools) than to the industrialized nations, which had managed to restrain the excesses of capitalism. Wherever these tools did not exist, one could see the same conditions that Marx described repeating themselves time and time again.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd sadly, during the Cold War, whenever the impulse to rise up occurred in a developing nation, it would be attributed, in the West, to the Communists and it had to be fought with all of the weapons of war that a capitalist society could produce.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/scrapetv.com\/News\/News%20Pages\/Business\/images-5\/foxconn-workers.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/scrapetv.com\/News\/News%20Pages\/Business\/images-5\/foxconn-workers.jpg\" height=\"205\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EChina and America: A Search for Solutions\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAll this is important because the four factors I have mentioned are now being eroded by the unprecedented corruption by corporations like Koch Industries. Our dependence on oil- as well as an empire's taste for luxury has created monstrously powerful corporate entities who would stop at nothing short of treason itself to have their way.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWe see more and more every day of this kind of slide toward decline and desperation. The infiltration of the Supreme Court, the mutation of the free press into a propaganda machine for special interests, the purchase of politicians from both parties to make legislative reform impossible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe slow demolition of organized labor has not brought about better conditions. It has not improved the living standards of the middle class. It has not made America any more competitive. If anything, it has achieved quite the opposite.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBut how can America be competitive with nations like China which have an unlimited supply of cheap labor? There's only one way and it's a solution you aren't likely to hear from corporate owned mainstream media.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nFirst of all, we have to remember that the situation in China is not a static one and China is not our enemy. In time, the Chinese worker will soon reach critical mass and make the same demands as the American worker once did. And this seems already to be happening, much to the chagrin of Western companies doing business there.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhen workers at a Honda transmission plant in China went on strike for higher wages last month (May 2010), they touched off a domino effect of high-profile labor disputes.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs the strikes, many of them at foreign-owned plants, rippled through China's southern manufacturing heartland, the government — usually quick to crush mass protests of any kind — did not step in, but allowed them to spread.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThat's because it views the strikes less as a political threat these days than as an economic tool — a way to help restructure China's current export-driven economy to a more self-sustaining one, driven by ordinary people with more cash to spend.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EUnionizing China\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThere are other signs of hope from across the Pacific, but they are rarely mentioned in the mainstream media.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn September 2010, the Teamsters, including Joint Council 25 President John T. Coli, welcomed five delegates from the Shangdong Provincial Federation of Trade Unions of China (SPFTU) to Chicago. The groups signed an official memorandum of exchange and cooperation. As part of the agreement, “the delegations will share views and common concerns on a variety of labor issues, including the benefits of collective bargaining and protection for workers’ rights. The unions expect to share information on organizing and management techniques, and will be looking for new opportunities to support and communicate with workers.” This advancement in labor rights in China is supported, rather surprisingly, by the Chinese government.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/politicalgates.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/western-multinational-corporations.html\"\u003EThe American Chamber of Commerce (along with other groups) did all it could to water-down the new labor reform laws last year\u003C\/a\u003E, but their efforts were fairly unsuccessful. Corporations complained that China might not be such a great place to do business, but have since, begrudgingly accepted the situation.\u0026nbsp;There was very little they could do.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/chinaeconomytoday.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/07\/chinese-trade-unions-as-a-tool-to-advance-political-agenda\/\"\u003EAs one source observes:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn line with its provisions(of the recent Chinese labor law), the ACFTU (All China Federation of Trade Unions) that serves as a government endorsed umbrella for the world’s largest trade union organization, is currently implementing a mass unionization initiative. Thus, the unions’ significance is likely to grow in the coming years, which should be taken into account by any company doing business in China.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSo, competition with China need not mean a race to the bottom. Chinese workers- as well as the Chinese government- must be allowed to see the success of the American system, as a model to imitate. Not the other way around. Perhaps the key, the solution, is the encouragement, by union groups, by the Left, of worker rights in China in order that Western corporations would have to chose the high productivity of the American worker compared to the low cost of the Chinese worker. That is a fair competition.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt is a marvelous irony to have American unions calling on a former Communist country to reform and empower its own unions to control unbridled Capitalism.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nChina’s present policy to allow union labor with collective bargaining is a wise move, especially when added to a court system ready and willing to hand down punishment for abuse. Imagine how much more timid white collar criminals would in the US if they were punished like they are in China.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cu style=\"color: red; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cu style=\"color: red; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EThe Man who Sold the Rope\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nDespite what Mitt Romney might think, corporations are not people.To quote \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Thurlow,_1st_Baron_Thurlow\"\u003EEdward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nCorporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThey don’t fall in love, they don’t get hungry in the middle of the night and they especially don’t feel patriotism. Corporation’s interests are actually quite narrow. The search for greater profits, ever-cheaper labor, and new markets may be all-important to corporations, but it is also a blinding one.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_TR_7PFJtKB4\/SPEqg4oMy9I\/AAAAAAAAAEM\/IS6hPBkxYIY\/s1600\/DeRegulationWasStartedUnderReagan.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_TR_7PFJtKB4\/SPEqg4oMy9I\/AAAAAAAAAEM\/IS6hPBkxYIY\/s320\/DeRegulationWasStartedUnderReagan.jpg\" title=\"Deregulation: Reagan cartoon\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSo relying on politicians who have been bribed- isn’t this the word?- by corporations is extremely foolish. The allegiance of politicians of this ilk is not to the tax-paying citizen but to the hedge fund managers, religious fanatics with the money of their followers to spend, the anxious CEOs and the corporate board of directors.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nUltimately it is the corporations themselves that are being foolish. In their zealous abuse of the capitalist system, they are destroying its very foundations. As Karl Marx reportedly said, \u003Ci\u003E“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTherefore, when you hear the Republican candidates call for “de-regulation” and for “less Big Government” it is important to consider what exactly that means in practice. The definition of “to govern” is “to restrain” “to control” and “to direct.” Who is government supposed to restrain, control and direct? Only its citizens but not its corporations? Only the law-abiding, the weak and the defenseless or the powerful, the wealthy, the selfish and the corrupt?\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nSo in effect, when conservative politicians speak of de-regulation they are speaking of a land without rules, with no checks and balances, in a word, lawlessness. When they demand “less government interference” they actually mean anarchy, disorder and accepted injustice. It is a vision of America as a third world nation, without class mobility, without representation, and in most respects, intolerable for Americans. It is, therefore, an act of patriotism to send a clear message in the next election. This is not an acceptable future for the nation.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe Right wing vision isn’t even a system that offers stability- the very lowest standard for any political system. Whenever market-oriented economies are de-regulated, that is, allowed to manage themselves without government interference, inevitably the economy goes into overdrive, a few become incredibly rich while the rest are stripped of all they own.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe astonishing part of all of this is that anybody should have to be reminded of what happens they corporations go “free-range.” People only need to look around and see the misery caused by deregulation of the last decade. Yet, this is the only vision the Republicans have to offer for the next election, it would seem.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhat we are seeing and experiencing is a slow decay of America led by foolish policies from the Far Right. The trickle down theory redux. The Bush tax breaks for the super wealthy (continued), and the progress of the corporate corruption of democracy’s most valuable institutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EBusiness as Usual\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIn this upcoming election, the same illegitimate slogans and wrongheaded solutions are trotted out to the American public. Once again, the spokesmen for the party of the 1% will attempt to mislead an easily fooled electorate into voting against their own best interests. Rest assured they are planning to use every dirty trick, every negative ad, every divisive tactic and all fear-mongering they can think of in order to return to power. Clearly they are not finished with destroying the country.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nThere is good news despite everything. According to The Atlantic Monthly,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAlthough support for government regulation of business hasn't risen, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/?pageid=1400\"\u003E50 percent\u003C\/a\u003E of Americans think it is necessary to protect the public interest, compared with 38 percent who say that regulation usually does more harm than good. In fact, not only do more Americans worry that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/312\/trends-in-political-values-and-core-attitudes-1987-2007\"\u003Ebusinesses are snooping\u003C\/a\u003E into their personal lives (74 percent), than think government is doing so (58 percent), fully six-in-ten think that business makes \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/?pageid=1400\"\u003Etoo much profit, and an overwhelming 78 percent\u003C\/a\u003E think there is too much power in the hands of large companies.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAccording to Pew Research Center, the majority of American appear to know where to place the blame.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAlthough fully 80% of Americans attribute at least some of the blame for the current financial crisis to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/?pageid=1400\"\u003Eweak government regulation\u003C\/a\u003E of financial institutions, public support for regulation more generally has not shifted upward.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOne doesn’t need to be an atheist Marxist or some wild-eyed revolutionary to understand the obvious. Back in 1891, Pope Leo XIII- who probably had very little in common with Karl Marx- stated things pretty clearly:\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThe richer class have many ways of shielding themselves, and stand less in need of help from the State; whereas the mass of the poor have no resources of their own to fall back upon, and must chiefly depend upon the assistance of the State. And it is for this reason that wage-earners, since they mostly belong in the mass of the needy, should be specially cared for and protected by the government.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EBetween Those Who Have Much and Those Who have Too Little\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nThis ray of enlightenment simply has not reached many in the Republican party. What can you say when you still have people like Representative\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.spencerswalm.com\/\"\u003ESpencer Swalm\u003C\/a\u003E from Colorado, arguing that families can stay out of poverty by avoiding having kids \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/uspoverty.change.org\/blog\/view\/should_you_get_married_this_week\"\u003Eoutside of marriage\u003C\/a\u003E. It certainly hasn’t hurt Bristol Palin.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nOr when a South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer compared poor people to \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/uspoverty.change.org\/blog\/view\/south_carolina_lt_governor_compares_poor_people_to_stray_animals\"\u003Estray animals\u003C\/a\u003E by saying, \u003Cb\u003E\"You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply\"? \u003C\/b\u003EAnd yet, this is a man who doubtless goes to church every Sunday.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/news.change.org\/stories\/americas-proud-tradition-of-blaming-the-poor\"\u003EAs Change.org notes:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWhen \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/local\/20100215_In_hard_times__Americans_blame_the_poor.html\"\u003ERush Limbaugh says\u003C\/a\u003E that food stamps enable people to \"buy Twinkies, Milk Duds, potato chips, six-packs of Bud, then head home to watch the NFL on one of two color TVs,\" he encourages his millions of listeners to engage in low-grade class warfare, whether by voting for candidates who similarly oppose helping those in need, failing to donate to organizations doing their best to help, or engaging in even more rants against people struggling to survive in the wealthiest country in the world. Words like Limbaugh's, Bauer's and Swalm's are a self-perpetuating cycle that serves only to keep those who need help even further down.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAnd it isn’t merely small-time politicians or bloated radio talk show hosts speaking such nonsense. It is even more disgraceful when you have a candidate for president, Herman Cain, saying things like “Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself! […] It is not a person’s fault because they succeeded, it is a person’s fault if they failed.”\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTo that, I would quote to Mr. Cain the words of Franklin Roosevelt- a man whose reforms proved Marx wrong.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nPresidential candidate Michele Bachmann can say things like \"Literally­ if we took away the minimum wage —if conceivabl­y it was gone—we could potentiall­y virtually wipe out unemployme­nt completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.\"\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nTo that, I would again quote Franklin Roosevelt- a man she might have heard of.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.”\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAmericans are indeed fortunate to have a heritage of intelligent and compassion leaders from the past to recall and take courage from and remind us who were are whenever we need a touchstone. Their words offer a shelter from the day to day bluster from the Far Right.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nWe can only hope that voters across the nation are as equally intelligent and understand where all of these “bright” Republican ideas will lead. When they hear a Republican candidate tell his audience that he wants to take this nation back, they should inquire how far back they plan to go and at what cost to the average citizen.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n_________________\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Ch2\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EI welcome any comments or questions so don't hesitate to drop me a line to let me know what you thought.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; 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white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5FSJDof8qH0\/TqKO_izGCNI\/AAAAAAAAD5M\/vCzhZv2rujs\/s1600\/USA.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5FSJDof8qH0\/TqKO_izGCNI\/AAAAAAAAD5M\/vCzhZv2rujs\/s400\/USA.JPG\" height=\"400\" width=\"305\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003EM\u003C\/span\u003Ey father, born in 1929, grew up in the midst of the Great Depression, in what most people would consider extreme poverty. His father died one week after his birth leaving his widowed mother to raise her five children alone. Had it not been for a productive farmland, it is doubtful they would have survived. \u003Cb\u003E“We didn’t have two nickles to rub together,”\u003C\/b\u003E he’d often tell me,\u003Cb\u003E”but we never even realized we were poor. Everybody we knew was in the same situation as we were.”\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn 1951. he left the farm to join in the Korean War to fight the spread of the Communist threat. The Red Menace- China- was on the verge of expanding across the border into Korea. Following that, he received credit from a GI loan which allowed him to buy a very humble mobile home to start his married life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn the economic boom of the 1950s, my father found employment as a precision \u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003Esheet metal worker at a aircraft manufacturing plant. Along with thousands of other unskilled workers returning from Korea, the company trained my father with the idea of steady long term employment. In turn, my father worked at the company for thirty years. He did not particularly desire to rise up in the hierarchy of the company. He told me that he’d prefer not to have the stress that went with the responsibility. He preferred to spend more time at home at the end of his shift. There was also the goal that he knew that his children would, by his hard, boring and unsatisfying labor, have a better life than he did. It was an attainable goal. Through the use of collective bargaining of his union or the rare labor action, my father’s wage steadily increased.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\nThe company respected the union and the union bargained in good faith. In a delicate balance, the workers, too, knew that union would represent them fair and square and, if a strike could not be avoided, the union would do its best to make sure no family went hungry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nI remember one protracted strike back in the late 60s when I was quite young. The unions delivered specially prepared food packages for worker families. I’ll not forget that. Wheat bulgur (or was it corn grits?) to the families. It was strange to see my mother hesitatingly take charity. Yet, she took it, knowing that my father was walking the picket line with the other workers night after night when the company refused to negotiate. How could this be considered a handout? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIn the thirty years he worked at the plant, my father was able to pull himself and his family out of the depths of the poverty he had known in his youth and install himself firmly into middle class. A large home- not grandiose, mind you, but comfortable and safe and affordable. The little boxes of suburbia, it’s true. A car that suited a family of five (a station wagon) but not at all showy. (“If you keep it maintained, it will last you for years.”) A quiet neighborhood in the suburbs and a high quality school for his children to attend. This was the American Dream and the dream was real. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thefourthrevolution.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/american-dream-classic.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/thefourthrevolution.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/american-dream-classic.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs his child, I noted other traits of my parents that helped them support their “American Dream.” The sparing use of credit, for example; scrupulous saving through US Bonds and other long term investments. (My mother, fumbling through the precious bank notes she stored in a safe under the bed, would explain it thus, “It’s like investing in country.” I thought that was silly because, after all, didn’t the government make the money?) For my father, it was all about “living within your means.” Credit, he warned as I would roll my eyes, was a dangerous thing.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nAs a teenager, when I found and quit my first job, my father was quite upset with me. “You can’t go from job to job like that. It’ll look bad on your record,” he told me. (I had been a waiter in a Chinese restaurant.) The age was changing and in my time, it was already becoming harder and harder to find a decent job in the way my father had. Employment would come and go and no matter how hard you might be willing to work and under what conditions, there was absolutely no guarantee that you would have a job the following week. The message was constantly drummed into my head. You are expendable. Don’t complain. Consider yourself lucky to be working.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nIt was the dawn of the replaceable worker and the end of Big Labor- the beginning of the end of the American Dream.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nI was not much of a scholar. I couldn’t have spelled proletariat or bourgeois, much less understood what the terms meant and the only Marx I knew of was Groucho. Like most Americans all those political terms sounded like pretentious European concepts that didn’t really apply here at home. I was never given the opportunity to play the student revolutionary on campus. After some less than successful attempts at higher education, I went to work in a mid-sized plastics factory. The pay was better than the minimum wage and the work, while mind-numbingly boring, was, for the most part, not very arduous.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBy the 70s, the situation was noticeably different than from my father’s time. Generally speaking, union reps were never to be seen. The local shop steward was the mother-in-law to the company supervisor and nobody seemed to see this as a conflict of interest. On the one occasion, I, along with a group of other workers, met our union rep, he came to the meeting- held in a Denny’s- late, driving a very nice car, smelling of expensive cologne and dressed in a pricey three piece suit. His message to us was “Don’t complain about unsafe conditions. It’s not the right time. It could cost you your job.” That was it. The meeting was over in less than twenty minutes.\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\nBy that time and starting from the 1950s, organized labor in the US had become heavily infiltrated by organized crime. The Mafia had, for example, used unions to create extortion rackets so that, by their command, workers would slow or halt construction if contractors or developers didn't make the right payoffs. Also large unions had immense union pension funds to play with and would inevitably finance other criminal operations. At one point, the Mafia could have brought nearly all construction and shipping in the United States to a halt. Such alliances tarnished the reputations of all union and organized labor associations in America.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\nTherefore, when the Right to Work laws came along around 1978, which made union membership a matter of free choice and not mandatory, most of the workers questioned the necessity of joining the union, at all. What was the point? What good was a union?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Cu\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003EReasons for the Crash\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/u\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIt is no accident that the fall of the Soviet Union has been attributed to many factors but, in the US, one important factor is usually forgotten. According to the neo-conservative version, promoted by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/lecture\/ronald-reagan-and-the-fall-of-communism\"\u003Esuch Koch-supported think-tanks as The Heritage Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E, President Reagan demanded that Gorbachev “tear down” the Berlin Wall and the whole Communist bloc unraveled like a cheap sweater. It is a pleasant sounding fairy tale, I suppose, a tale for children or childish minds. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn fact, one of the factors that invariably goes unmentioned in post-Reagan America is the Polish Solidarity Movement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAnd there’s a very logical reason. The true unraveling of the Soviet Union began with labor unions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.historydoctor.net\/Advanced%20Placement%20European%20History\/collapse_of_communism_in_eas.html\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAccording to one historian,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/addgadget.com\/clock\/flag\/Soviet_Union.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/addgadget.com\/clock\/flag\/Soviet_Union.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAugust, 1980, sixteen thousand workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, (formerly the German city of Danzig) led by an electrician named Lech Walesa, struck and occupied the plant. They were soon joined by other workers “in solidarity” as well as intellectuals, and had the support of the Catholic Church. The Solidarity Movement was thus born. The workers demanded free trade unions, freedom of speech, release of political prisoners and economic reforms. Poland’s Communist leader, Wajciech Januzelski responded by proclaiming martial law, arresting the leaders of Solidarity, and thereby “saving the nation.”  He was unable to stop the movement, however, because the government was unwilling (and perhaps unable) to impose a full scale reign of terror. Solidarity continued to grow as an underground movement, and the Polish people began acting as if they lived in a free state, even though they did not.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn 1989 with the country on the brink of economic collapse, Solidarity convinced Poland’s communist leaders into legalizing the movement and to allow free elections to Poland’s Parliament. The Communists expected to win most contested seats, and still controlled a majority in the Parliament, but were roundly defeated in the election. Most of the contested seats were won by Solidarity leaders. Many angry voters crossed off the names of unopposed Communist candidates and wrote in the names of Solidarity candidates. The result was the Communist Party did not achieve the majority it had anticipated. By forming a coalition with two minority anti-communist parties, Solidarity took control of the Government and the editor of Solidarity’s weekly newspaper was sworn in as Poland’s leader. The new government slowly eliminated the Secret Police, Communist government ministers, and other officials; but did so at a deliberate pace so as not to invite military intervention from the Soviet Union. A free market system was introduced, and Poland became the first Soviet Bloc country to experience revolution.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ibeutha.posterous.com\/analyze-the-role-of-poland-in-the-collapse-of\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAnd it didn’t stop there.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003ESolidarity had caused a domino effect on the rest of the Eastern Bloc. Inspired by Poland’s reforms East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania quickly followed their neighbour’s lead. East Germans took to the street in 1989 and called for reforms such as visits to West Germany and West Berlin. Eric Honecker the East German leader had to eventually bend to the pressure of the people which led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EThere’s a good reason why the role that unions played in the fall of the Soviet empire has not been given its rightful place. There has been a purposeful attempt to minimize the role the unions played in the fall of the Soviet Union.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;\"\u003E\n\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/theamericano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/final-patco-238x300.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/theamericano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/final-patco-238x300.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000099;\"\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EOne year later, on August 3, 1981, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.reagan.utexas.edu\/archives\/speeches\/1981\/80381a.htm\"\u003EPresident Ronald Reagan announced that he would fire the striking air traffic controllers\u003C\/a\u003E who were seeking better working conditions, better pay and a 32-hour workweek. He told reporters:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\nLet me make one thing plain. I respect the right of workers in the private sector to strike.... But we cannot compare labor-management relations in the private sector with government. Government cannot close down the assembly line. It has to provide without interruption the protective services which are government's reason for being. It was in recognition of this that the Congress passed a law forbidding strikes by government employees against the public safety. Let me read the solemn oath taken by each of these employees, a sworn affidavit, when they accepted their jobs: ``I am not participating in any strike against the Government of the United States or any agency thereof, and I will not so participate while an employee of the Government of the United States or any agency thereof.''\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIronically Reagan’s position on government unionized workers’ right to labor action would, no doubt, have been unanimously approved of in Communist Moscow. After all, the same argument might well have been made against the Polish workers, where ALL workers were government workers. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EAt the time, many Americans sympathized more with the government’s position than with the union. Still the move was breath-taking. On one hand, the president spoke of the danger of a strike of government workers to such an important sector and yet, the move to fire and re-train new workers as fast as possible could only be equally as dangerous.  \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/thestarryeye.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0148c7735e2b970c-320wi\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/thestarryeye.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0148c7735e2b970c-320wi\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EWhen \u003Cb\u003EAir Florida Flight 90\u003C\/b\u003E crashed upon takeoff into the Potomac on one snowy January afternoon in 1982 in Washington D.C., followed by the crash a few months later of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pan_Am_Flight_759\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EPanAm flight 759 \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Efrom Miami to Las Vegas, many worried that about the safety of the air industry. During the investigation, Reagan played up the “heroes” of the rescue, perhaps as a means to divert attention. In fact, no evidence was ever found to connect the training air traffic controllers to any of the crashes. There was only a suspicion which quickly faded.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EReagan’s bold move should not be underestimated. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.irle.berkeley.edu\/events\/spring08\/feller\/\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EAccording to Damon Silvers, Associate General Counsel for the AFL-CIO\u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EIn the first days of his administration, President Ronald Reagan responded to a strike by air traffic controllers by ordering the firing of the striking controllers and their replacement by “replacement workers.”By this act, Reagan sent a signal to private sector employers, a signal comparable in power to that sent forty years earlier by the War Labor Board. The message was—the federal government fires strikers and hires replacement workers; you can too.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003EBy doing so, the right of employers to hire permanent replacement workers, a right that had been recognized in theory by the NLRB in the 1950’s, but never acted on, became a living part of American labor law. Employers used permanent replacements to break strikes across the industrial landscape in campaigns like International Paper, Hormel, Caterpillar, Continental and Eastern Airlines. Of course,  \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003EProfessional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO\u003C\/b\u003E)\u003C\/a\u003E was followed by the effective cessation of labor law enforcement by the Reagan \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Labor_Relations_Board\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003ENational Labor Relations Board (NLRB)\u003C\/b\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E a pattern, which after a hiatus under the Clinton Administration, has been resumed with renewed vigor in the George W. Bush Administration. In the decade that followed PATCO, even where union density remained, bargaining power was fundamentally weakened. And not just for union members. Though there has been a dramatic revolution in workplace productivity driven by the information technology revolution, America’s workers have, with the exception of a brief period in the late 1990’s, been unable to bring those gains home with them in their paychecks. And the root of this disconnection between worker productivity and worker income lies in the change in the spirit of American labor law that took hold in 1980.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThus, while unions were leading the march toward a liberal democracy in Poland and the other Communism countries, Reagan and the neo-conservatives were dismantling the effectiveness of unions in the United States.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E  \u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003EThe consequences of this policy were as predictable as they were grim.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent; text-align: center;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E___________________\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/american-dreams-my-father-karl-marx-and_27.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EIn part two,\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/b\u003E I will examine the effects of Reaganomics on the country, explain why capitalism- American style had- until recently- managed to prove Karl Marx incorrect.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv style=\"background-color: transparent;\"\u003E\n\u003Cspan style=\"font-family: inherit; text-align: center;\"\u003EI welcome any comments or questions so don't hesitate to drop me a line to let me know what you thought.\u003C\/span\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/66584400268261792"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/407281054887604200\/posts\/default\/66584400268261792"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"https:\/\/nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/american-dreams-my-father-karl-marx-and.html","title":"American Dreams: My Father, Karl Marx and the Man who Sold the Rope 1\/2"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Nomad"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03686282358562565742"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5FSJDof8qH0\/TqKO_izGCNI\/AAAAAAAAD5M\/vCzhZv2rujs\/s72-c\/USA.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"}}]}});