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byeya

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9. I personally think this institutionalized pro-war, pro-corporatist propaganda began with the Wests'

Reply to Octafish (Reply #7)

Tue May 14, 2013, 09:59 AM

May 2013

beginning the Cold War at the end of WW2. The Republicans gained control of Congress and Taft Hartley was allowing red-baiting to become the norm. AFL unions, and the some CIO unions, saw the leadership of the individual unions red-bait fellow workers to consolodate their power and to banish democracy from the unions and the shop floor. The Cold War also kept the majority of the population scared and unquestioning.

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