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The American Middle Class no longer has the Red Army to defend it. (DU comment.)

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 11:46pm — Randall Kohn

blindpig

The American Middle Class no longer has the Red Army to defend it.

So long as there was this big scary alternative to capitalism those bastards had to play nice, produce concrete reasons to support capitalism.

With that problem out of the way, with the socialists and communists who caused the New Deal to happen crushed by the post war Red Scare, it's back to bidness as usual, circa 1900.

Ain't no corporatism, or predatory capitalism, it's just capitalism.

Those of us who happily gulped down the bright anti-red Kool-Aid are not happy with this realization.

What's left?

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Certainly

By michaelwb on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 9:21am

Soviet Union starts collapsing mid-80s

Union busting accelerates in the US during the 1980s.

Soviet Union gone 1991.

NAFTA in 1994

WTO in 1995

I'm just saying...

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This was Naomi Klein's thesis

By MsExPat on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 9:33am

in The Shock Doctrine.

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