The coming class war and how to avoid it: rebuilding the American middle class
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Armonk, NY
Sharpe
1999
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Preface xi
1. From Middle Class to Underclass to Class War? 3
A Touch of Class (Tension, That Is) 5
A Little More Class Tension—Some Simple Numbers 11
The Coming Class Tension—Some Harder Numbers 13
Do You Have a Friend in Prison? 15
How Did It Get This Bad? 17
2. Money, Wall Street, and the New American
Plutocracy 19
Twenty Five Years of Prosperity— The Age of Keynes 24
( The End oftheBretton Woods System 28
Emergence of the Casino Economy 30
i Enter the Transnational Corporation 32
Enter the Financialized Economy 35
America and the Financialized Casino Economy 39
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3. The Deliberate Path Toward a New American
Class Structure 43
Debunking the Big Lie: Middle Class Decline and World
Economic Decline 46
Doing It Slowly 48
The Role of Capital and Organized Corporate Interests 49
The Reasons: Middle Class Decline and Class Creation 51
The Economic Lobbying Success Story 57
The Smoke Screen over the Classes 61
Political Non Response to Middle Class Decline Number
One: Clinton s Failed Campaign for Change 62
Political Non Response to Middle Class Decline Number
Two: The Not So Unsuccessful Contract with America 66
The Contract —A Wolf in Sheep s Clothing 68
The Next Contracts —A Flat Tax and a National
Sales Tax 72
4. The Disenfranchised Middle Class—
The Quasi Economics of Confusion 75
Confusing the Electorate—The Scare Tactic 78
Confusing the Electorate—The Use of Guilt 81
The Confusing Magnitude of the American Economy 82
Confusing the Electorate—The Use of Quasi Economics 85
The Quasi Economics of Confusion 87
Genuine Economics 91
Muted and Isolationist Economics—The Silence of the
Economic Lambs 94
5. Class Warfare American Style 99
Karl Marx and Class Warfare 100
Marxism and History 102
America s Egalitarian Class Structure: 1945 to 1973 104
A Changing American Class Structure: The 1970s, 1980s,
and 1990s 106
The New Class Structure in the United States 107
Dual Labor Markets, the Shrinking Middle Class, and
the Emerging Labor Dependent Class 111
American Class Warfare—Intraclass Style 112
Racism 113
The Law and Order Versus the Criminal Classes 114
Gender Issues 115
Intergenerational Class Conflict 115
Single Issue Politics 116
Long Term Trends in Income and Wealth Distribution 117
Long Term Trends in Social Health Deterioration 123
What Is to Be Done? 125
Appendix: Summary of Reich Classification on Work
in America from the Work of Nations 125
6. Some Solutions for Class Harmony 127
Productivity and Growth 12 7
Rebuilding America: A Twenty First Century
New Deal 134
Facilitating Rebuilding America I: A Federal
Capital Budget 137
Facilitating Rebuilding America II: A National
Development Bank 13 8
A Modern Full Employment Policy 139
The Need for Primary Labor Market Jobs 141
Health Care and Tax Reform 143
Federal Tax Policy and the Drift Toward Class Tensions 145
The Manufactured Class Tensions over Social Security 150
Needed: A Federal Tax System to Reduce Class Tensions 154
The 1997 Budget Balancing Tax Bill 155
Toward Strengthening and Preserving Social Security 155
The Kerrey Plan 155
Balance the Social Security Budget? 156
The Strobel Peterson Social Security Plan 157
What Can Be Done? 161
Ending the Dominance of the Political Process by Money 162
Relegitimize Government 164
7. Summary, Observations, and a Prediction
on the Problem 167
Financialization as the Road to Political Control 170
The Republicrats 172
Economic Confusion 172
The Deafening Silence of Economists 174
A Three Step Process of Control 175
Elitist Democrats and the Proletariat Republicans 179
Some Solutions 180
Rebuild America 182
A Single Payer Health Care System and Tax Reform 184
Putting Security Back into Social Security 185
Campaign Finance Reform 186
Anti Statism, Class Warfare, and the Loss of
American Culture 186
Teddy—The Other Roosevelt 187
Whither Corporate Statesmanship? 189
Whither Democracy? 190
Notes 192
Index 199
About the Authors 207
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