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"Left wing kookiness" (was: Self-Sufficiency Acreage...?)
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 17:46:23 -0800, Robert Sturgeon
wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 00:59:35 GMT, (George Cleveland) wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:08:40 -0800, Robert Sturgeon wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:19:53 GMT, *snippage* The corporations have never lost control over the day to day lives of Americans. If that was so, the corporations would not have allowed the imposition of social security taxes, collective bargaining, the SEC, high income taxes, fair housing laws, OSHA, EPA, the ADA, minimum wage laws, all the rest of the post-1933 nanny/security state. But all those - and more - WERE enacted, because the corporations did lose their power. Jeez, I couldn't have made a better case for strict regulation of corporations. Virtually every one of those "nanny" state regulations has made the lives of working people tolerable under capitalism. Without them the existence of capitalism itself would be in doubt. Revolution, *Red revolution* was on the agenda in the U.S. in the 1930s. Laissez-faire capitalism had failed. Roosevelt was able to deflect the demands for radical change by making humane reforms to an inherently inhumane system. Their influence was moderated during the 30s but they regained their power during the second world war and by 1948 had succeeded in eviscerating the labor movement. By the 50s they suceeded in eliminating the most creative elements who were opposed to their rule. No American president, including FDR, has ever questioned the basic economic assumptions that guarantees the seat of priviledge that the ruling class believes it deserves. In the 1930s, and still today, the ruling class consisted of the bureaucrats, think tank residents, Congress critters, university presidents and professors, lawyers and the rest of the operational personnel of the security state. Baloney. Ask yourself, "Whose decisions have a greater effect on my day to day life, my boss or my congressman?" If the corporations were really in control, there is no way Martha Stewart and the rest of the accused corporate types would be in any legal trouble at all. In the glory days of rule by the industrialists, the tycoons did much more outrageous things, and generally got away with them. Why would a competitor of Martha Stewart be any thing but pleased that she was in hot water with the feds? FDR's "brain trust" was not made up of corporate CEOs. JFK's "best and brightest" had McNamarra (sp?) from the corporate world, and he was a dismal failure. Same with LBJ - professors, lawyers, politicians. If you mean that not even FDR tried to eliminate the market system and the right to spend one's own time and money more or less as one sees fit - so long as you don't interfere with the governors' view of how public life should be conducted - you are of course correct. He was a control freak, not a communist. The question that hasn't been asked for almost a hundred years in this country is "Who creates wealth, and who has the right to gain the most from its creation?" -- Robert Sturgeon, proud member of the vast right wing conspiracy and the evil gun culture. |
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