Some
people want to forget that in Great Britain in 1945 the working class
coming out of World War II, led by the Communist Party, was full
determination to fight for its rights and was able to muster the
strength and the power to complete much of the progressive agenda that
the working class in this country was also seeking but here in this
country the working class was confronted by a massive Wall Street
assault of governmental repression resulting in a huge and prolonged
setback that put an end to the expansion of New Deal reforms and with an
unrelenting and vicious red-baiting attack chopped off labor's head
while sowing greater division between the Communist and Socialist
parties.
The
New Left joined this attack on the working class as it tried to replace
working class Marxist ideology with muddle-headed upper middle class
interpretations of Marxism. and this goes on today with these
super-revolutionary New Leftists having taken up with Obama and his Wall
Street imperialist agenda trying to make people believe the Democratic
Party and its politicians are the vehicle for change when nothing could
be further from the truth.
We
should look back at history to 1945 to figure out why the British
working class won in 1945 what the U.S. working class did not. There are
important lessons to be learned.
Our setbacks began with the defeat of the "Full Employment Act of 1945."
It is dishonest to deny this history. We don't learn this history to our own detriment.