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The Capitalists Are Fucking Terrorized
When the global economy collapsed and the roaring twenties yielded to the great depression, franklin delino roosevelt was elected in 19 32 on the promise of providing americans with a new deal. This involved a bunch of banking reforms, a raft of new social programs, a jobs program, a whole bunch of stuff. Now, actual socialists, like nicol ashoff, who wrote the new profits of capital, saw the new deal as essentially a way for capitalists to keep the system limping along without a socialist revolution. So capitalism is legitimate because we also have the social safety net, and we'll take care of people. And it's not this solless system that we had in