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Mia Wong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6381 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

By shifting production from countries where workers' movements were strong to countries where violence against workers was easier and workers were thus poorer and more exploited, CEOs could pit workers against each other in an endless race to the bottom.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

By shifting production from countries where workers' movements were strong to countries where violence against workers was easier and workers were thus poorer and more exploited, CEOs could pit workers against each other in an endless race to the bottom.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

These practices became known as offshoring, infused with the international attack on unions and the power of workers heralded in the US by Reagan. Together, they crushed the workers' movement and implemented neoliberal austerity throughout the globe through a regime that is colloquially known as free trade. Now, there was, of course, resistance to this.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

These practices became known as offshoring, infused with the international attack on unions and the power of workers heralded in the US by Reagan. Together, they crushed the workers' movement and implemented neoliberal austerity throughout the globe through a regime that is colloquially known as free trade. Now, there was, of course, resistance to this.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

These practices became known as offshoring, infused with the international attack on unions and the power of workers heralded in the US by Reagan. Together, they crushed the workers' movement and implemented neoliberal austerity throughout the globe through a regime that is colloquially known as free trade. Now, there was, of course, resistance to this.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

maybe most famously the uprising of the Zapatistas in Chiapas in 1994, on the day that NAFTA went into effect. But for all of the victories and all of the spaces that were carved out, it is still the CEOs, the bosses, and the capitalists who rule the world. However, in the wake of their defeat...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

maybe most famously the uprising of the Zapatistas in Chiapas in 1994, on the day that NAFTA went into effect. But for all of the victories and all of the spaces that were carved out, it is still the CEOs, the bosses, and the capitalists who rule the world. However, in the wake of their defeat...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

maybe most famously the uprising of the Zapatistas in Chiapas in 1994, on the day that NAFTA went into effect. But for all of the victories and all of the spaces that were carved out, it is still the CEOs, the bosses, and the capitalists who rule the world. However, in the wake of their defeat...

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

Sections of the working class came to see their own power as a product of the nation, of masculinity, of American jobs for American workers. In this view, you didn't need to form a union. You didn't need to organize. You didn't need to fight the bosses who exploit you.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

Sections of the working class came to see their own power as a product of the nation, of masculinity, of American jobs for American workers. In this view, you didn't need to form a union. You didn't need to organize. You didn't need to fight the bosses who exploit you.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

Sections of the working class came to see their own power as a product of the nation, of masculinity, of American jobs for American workers. In this view, you didn't need to form a union. You didn't need to organize. You didn't need to fight the bosses who exploit you.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

All you needed to do for the high-paying blue-collar jobs of the 1960s to return was getting rid of the immigrants and bring jobs back home. This American nationalist ideology was extremely useful to the ruling class.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

All you needed to do for the high-paying blue-collar jobs of the 1960s to return was getting rid of the immigrants and bring jobs back home. This American nationalist ideology was extremely useful to the ruling class.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

All you needed to do for the high-paying blue-collar jobs of the 1960s to return was getting rid of the immigrants and bring jobs back home. This American nationalist ideology was extremely useful to the ruling class.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

It allowed them to turn the rhetoric of the old base of the workers' movement into a fascist movement, which they could then use to smash any genuine workers' struggle and then ride to power to impose more brutal austerity and more pro-capitalist reforms to, in their view, make it impossible for their power ever to be challenged again. But a strange thing happened.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

It allowed them to turn the rhetoric of the old base of the workers' movement into a fascist movement, which they could then use to smash any genuine workers' struggle and then ride to power to impose more brutal austerity and more pro-capitalist reforms to, in their view, make it impossible for their power ever to be challenged again. But a strange thing happened.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

It allowed them to turn the rhetoric of the old base of the workers' movement into a fascist movement, which they could then use to smash any genuine workers' struggle and then ride to power to impose more brutal austerity and more pro-capitalist reforms to, in their view, make it impossible for their power ever to be challenged again. But a strange thing happened.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

In the nationalism bred by the defeat of the workers' movement, the human personifications of the capitalist bubble economy in Donald Trump and Elon Musk have come to see their own victory as defeat. They became convinced that the trade deficits, which from a capitalist perspective simply do not matter as long as companies are making money... Sorry. Yes, they know better for shit.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

In the nationalism bred by the defeat of the workers' movement, the human personifications of the capitalist bubble economy in Donald Trump and Elon Musk have come to see their own victory as defeat. They became convinced that the trade deficits, which from a capitalist perspective simply do not matter as long as companies are making money... Sorry. Yes, they know better for shit.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 176

In the nationalism bred by the defeat of the workers' movement, the human personifications of the capitalist bubble economy in Donald Trump and Elon Musk have come to see their own victory as defeat. They became convinced that the trade deficits, which from a capitalist perspective simply do not matter as long as companies are making money... Sorry. Yes, they know better for shit.