"THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW HISTORY, ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT." - FDR Those who do not learn and remember their history are doomed to repeat it. ... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1944 Actually Edmond Burk in the 1700s first said this. In 1896, Jay Gould, then the pre-eminent railway baron in the U.S.A., had something deadly and different in mind. He was confronted with strike action by his railway workforce of overworked, underpaid and desperate workers. "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half", he said. That was his "vision" of the meaning of the "division of labour" and in more or less virulent form such has persisted among all the financial and industrial capitalist owners since then. This idea wore international boots as well, having been preceded by the massacre of Peterloo in England or Lucknow in India and hundreds of other deadly capital vs. labour conflicts and confrontations. At its core was the never-ending purpose of the capitalist owners to maintain, enhance and extend their undeterred rule over their working class and peoples in their own, and particularly in the "colonial world". History around the world tells us (if we search a little for truth) of terrible orgies of bloodshed, violence and corrupt practices to achieve that end.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:12:27 +0000
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