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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, we really weren't. America has always been a pretty shit country to anyone who wasn't owning class. Any good that came about during the course of this country's existence was in spite of it not because of it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    There was a brief time under FDR where we were doing ok. Not much of a legacy to be proud of in light of all the years we got it wrong, but it at least shows we are capable of better.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago*

    FDR was simply concessions by the state to placate the working people from gaining class consciousness after a long period of working class uprisings. After that brief time was the rise of McCarthyism and the 2nd Red Scare to ensure that the American working class forever opposes left-wing, working class economics, setting the stage for their systemic dismantling of the few concessions we were granted by FDR.

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