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#21 Whose America?: Prologue

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Industrial Revolution and the American Dream

The victory of big business over agrarianism in the civil war brought down the last remaining dissent force to the total rule of capital over american affairs. At the end of that war, labor was almost totally unorganized, both by habit and by design. And that was going to have to be rectified if the common people were going to stake their claim to a place in society. There was little hope for any support from elected government, whose representatives typically shared the interests and the prejudices of big business.

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