Like, Roosevelt broke up monopolies, for instance. That stuff was insufficient, but it was SOMETHING. Unlike now, where they just let capitalists do whatever they want.
Like, Roosevelt broke up monopolies, for instance. That stuff was insufficient, but it was SOMETHING. Unlike now, where they just let capitalists do whatever they want.
The Soviet Union was the threat of a better example, so capitalists had to give their workers a similar lifestyle so they didn’t go communist.
Now that it’s gone, it’s back to the gilded age for the working class: tenements, death, and privation.
The welfare state predates the Soviet Union by decades. Goes as far back as Bismark.
Because there was a militant labor movement
Bingo!