Wednesday, June 17, 2009

'Prophetic' old cartoon on dangerous '-ISM'

If they made the cartoon today though, there would be no Laborer or Farmer as rivals, only the other 3 guys. So I have two big problems with this old pro-capitalist propaganda.

The World Economic Forum rates America as having the best labor efficiency (read: anti-labor environment) in the world; and today only about 12 percent of workers are union members (many of them in government, after JFK made public-sector unions legal), vs. 35 percent in 1954.  Also, today huge multinational agbiz corporations grow most of our food, not family farms, several thousands of which close every year never to be replaced.

I guess things have improved a lot in the past 50 years, eh?....



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