>From a ruling class perspective,
the Nazis, perhaps, had the best
approach, at least in the short term,
since they were able to generate an
economic recovery, via public works
spending and later, military rearmament,
without too much fear that the working
class would get out of hand, since
Hitler had already smashed the trade
unions and the working class parties.
In fact the Nazis felt free to implement a less orthodox economic program than the governments of the Weimar Republic had been willing to do, since there was now less to fear from the working class.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:21:04 -0400
On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> The Great Depression lasted long enough, continuously, that
> slight improvements in conditions could generate the hope and the
> rising
> expectations that are so vital to left movements .
The recovery from 1933 to 1937 was very powerful. The unemployment rate fell from over 25% to around 11%, and GDP rose by 43% (or over 9% a year), surpassing the 1929 peak in 1936. And, as Bhaskar just pointed out, the politically interesting stuff didn't really start until 1934. That was the year of the Minneapolis general strike. A year later, the UAW was formed in 1935, and the Flint strike was 1936-37. Rising expectations are very dangerous from a bourgeois perspective. Best to keep the working class always a little off guard.
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