The History of the United States

The 1950s were a time of enormous achievement for returning GIs and African-American migration to the industrial Midwest and California. The level of social stability produced was the kind of libidinal unrest of 68 but set in 1972 with the rate of profit falling in the United States. macroeconomists who said we have to stop this undermined job security undermine industrial jobs export them abroad create unrest. Those policies went from Nixon to Carter to Reagan to Clinton which are policies of public austerity um financialization and deindustrialization none of these things happen by accident right there are man-made of human-made if you like so we need to understand our history now as we come out of covid