Luther Blissett expects "it to be much more like weekends, the 8-hour workday, the end of child labor, or workplace safety — only won through hard-fought organization and activism. History bears this out much more than the dystopian version." I don’t agree. History does not bear out this utopian version that wins "through hard-fought organization and activism," grassroots energy and morale. The age Luther describes–roughly between 1940 and1970– is an anomaly, a blip on the radar of history. At the end of WWII, they needed a strong middle class to build the technological grid that would later enslave us […]
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