Mia Wong
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.