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BLUE EAGLE 2.0 or why we should demand a new National Industrial Recovery Act

  BLUE EAGLE 2.0 or why we should demand a new National Industrial Recovery Act                                                   THE ORIGINAL BLUE EAGLE: When corporatist reform Democrat Franklin Roosevelt became president on March 4, 1933, his priority was to end the Great Depression and restore the normal functioning of American capitalism. A big part of his ‘100 days program’ was the National Industrial Recovery Act, the body that carried out that law the National  Recovery Administration, NRA, (popularly known as “The Blue Eagle” because of its distinctive logo,  often seen posted at businesses that participated in the program) chaired by WW I US Army logistics planner General Hugh Johnson, with the National Recovery Review Board, chaired by famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow, the tribunal that enforced the body’s...
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The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement

  The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement The “pro-worker” conservatism of figures like Oren Cass and his American Compass think tank offers narrowly targeted measures to select workers while terrorizing immigrants and maintaining management’s control over the workplace and politics. The Many Contradictions of a Conservative Labor Movement
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WHAT DO WE DO NOW? the crisis of the American working class and what we can do to fix it

  WHAT DO WE DO NOW? the crisis of the American working class and what we can do to fix it America is a country where citizens have more civil liberties than anywhere else on the planet, yet we are politically voiceless. We have a very narrow political spectrum; a multicultural, socially radical but fiscally conservative, center right party of the billionaires (the preferred party of that class) and an openly racist, socially and fiscally conservative far right party of the billionaires. The Democratic Party has its mass social base among a portion of the nation’s affluent professionals, corporate executives, small business owners and the more privileged and affluent layers of the working class – among African American and Jewish professionals, executives, businesspeople and affluent workers, support for the Democratic Party is almost unanimous, due to the open racism of the leaders of the other major party The Republican Party has it’s mass base among a portion of the nati...
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The Historical Failure of Anarchism

  The Historical Failure of Anarchism 1996 Position paper written by Chris Day that was a part of the final conflict in Love & Rage over orientation and direction. In this piece, he emphasizes what he see as the programmatic weaknesses of anarchism and the need to look beyond it for answers. The Historical Failure of Anarchism | libcom.org
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BREAK IT DOWN, BARNEY STYLE! or Why do so many internet Marxists dislike explaining their ideas in plain English that regular working class people can understand?

  BREAK IT DOWN, BARNEY STYLE!  or Why do so many internet Marxists dislike explaining their ideas in plain English that regular working class people can understand? one thing I don't get about a lot of internet Marxists if you want to win regular blue collar workers to support communist ideas... why exactly do some of you insist on using graduate school jargon? that's counterproductive why not say what you mean in PLAIN ENGLISH?   instead of talking about "the proletariat" - why not say "the working class"? instead of "bourgeoisie" why not say "capitalists" or "businesspeople'? instead of calling for "proletarian internationalism" why not say 'world wide worker solidarity"? instead of "dictatorship of the proletariat" why not say "working class democracy"?   you can explain the Labor Theory of Value using 4th grade reading level terminology - here, watch this: workers have to sell their abi...
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