What no one is talking about is why the jobs are gone -- and a good part of the reason has to do with the attacks on unions that fought to protect American workers. As one analyst noted, at least three million of 10.4 missing jobs can be traced to a form of aggressive class war where the "weakened bargaining position of labor was achieved by the growing assertiveness of management in slashing costs to maintain share prices."
With their work outsourced, factories gone and anti-labor laws restraining their growth, Marx's faith in the working class going from being a class in itself to a class for itself -- and the rest of us -- was sabotaged.
So if Marx can't help us, and Obama is posturing for political reasons, and the Republicans are playing at trench warfare in the interest of big business, and while the US still lacks the kinds of populist movements that are rocking the streets of Europe and even Israel, where can a breakthrough occur?
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