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To: John Donahoe who wrote (16509)1/21/1998 11:03:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin  Read Replies (2) of 24154
 
What chutzpah. Ironic is not the word for it. If what you say is true then they're "Johnny come
latelys".


Putting it in a historical perspective, it is understandable why, at one time, a large part of the US population gravitated towards the Communist Party. The main reason was because the US capitalist system was failing them. The rich were getting richer, while the average blue-collar working stiff got stiffed. Crappy wages, no minimum wage standards, no maximum working hour standards, child labor, unsafe working conditions... you name it. They were not sharing in the growing wealth that was building in a large part due to their own toils. The threat of civil unrest and Communism is what made the government and business to react to change things for the better. Many blue-collar workers felt that joining the Communist Party was the only way to exert any power, by uniting in numbers. Whatever you feel about the Communist Party, you have to understand the conditions under which it thrived. Had Big Business been proactive rather than reactive, the Communist Party never would have thrived.
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