In 1944, an American president proposed a sweeping reorganization of American life: a "second Bill of Rights" that recognized not only political rights, but ...

Can't help it, I love FDR, I can't quit him

Post :back-to-me-shining: to keep mr sanders from killing rosa

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  • culpritus [any]
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    3 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare#Internal_causes_of_the_anti-communist_fear

    this is an interesting read - I'm not knowledgeable enough to critique the wiki entry though

    just from a HistMat perspective, seems like there's a bit of truth to the necessity of comrades needing to 'hide their power levels'

    the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon test in 1949 (RDS-1)—surprised the American public, influencing popular opinion about U.S. National Security, which, in turn, was connected to the fear that the Soviet Union would hydrogen-bomb the United States, and fear of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA).

    In 1949, anti-communist fear, and fear of American traitors, was aggravated by the Chinese Communists winning the Chinese Civil War against the Western-sponsored Kuomintang, their founding of the Communist China, and later Chinese intervention in the Korean War (1950–53) against U.S. ally South Korea.

    I thought China and Xi were doing this really well for a while, but seems like :amerikkka: 's self-inflicted terror can be synergized in new innovative ways to successfully foment the New Red Scare

    anyway the wiki hole took me here:

    The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche Mark from West Berlin.

    WTF is going on here? I've not the vaguest sense of this shit!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsmark#Post-war

    ...

    OK, time to have another bowl

    • culpritus [any]
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      3 years ago

      oh wow

      Marshall plan funding overcame bottlenecks in the surging economy caused by remaining controls (which were removed in 1949), and opened up a greatly expanded market for German exports. Overnight, consumer goods appeared in the stores, because they could be sold for higher prices. While the availability of consumer goods is seen as a giant success story by most historians of the present, the perception at the time was a different one: prices were so high that average people could not afford to shop, especially since prices were free-ranging but wages still fixed by law. Therefore, in the summer of 1948 a giant wave of strikes and demonstrations swept over West Germany, leading to an incident in Stuttgart where strikers were met by US tanks ("Stuttgarter Vorfälle"). Only after the wage-freeze was abandoned, Deutschmark and free-ranging prices were accepted by the population.