Reply #6: FDR/Truman "prosperity" was bought on the backs of [View All]

women (free labor), minorities (super cheap labor), and the so-called "developing" world (free and cheap labor, and cheap resources). Even under the post-war settlement, and even under high top-marginal taxation, the exploitation of labor continued unabated. It's a shock that it would appear as a "Golden Age" of policy to somebody who proclaims some kind of labor line non-stop on this board. The whole notion of the so-called middle class under capitalism is a myth. During the post-war years, it was a myth sustained by massive exploitation of women and minorities, together with residual imperialism. As those groups of exploited workers rose up against that exploitation (feminism, the civil rights movement, decolonization and Third Worldism), it shifted again, this time as a myth sustained by ridiculous credit policies, and laughably justified by recourse to "technological innovation." The middle class is an exploiter class.