[lbo-talk] Re: What the Ruling Class Want to Get: A Green Light

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 19 15:59:37 PDT 2004


When Steve Max, red diaper baby (Papa Alan was a CP official) was recruited into SDS in the early sixties, he had been active in a reform DP club called the Four Freedoms club.

The Second Bill of Rights: FDR'S Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever -- by Cass R. Sunstein. http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/sunstein_roosevelt.html
> ...At that point, the speech became spectacularly ambitious. Roosevelt
> looked back, not entirely approvingly, to the framing of the
> Constitution. At its inception, the nation had protected "certain
> inalienable political rights -- among them the right of free speech,
> free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable
> searches and seizures," he noted. But over time, those rights had proved
> inadequate, as "we have come to a clear realization of the fact that
> true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and
> independence."

"We have accepted, so to speak, a Second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all -- regardless of station, race, or creed."

Then he listed the relevant rights:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation.

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation.

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living.

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad.

The right of every family to a decent home.

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment.

The right to a good education.

-- Michael Pugliese



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