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@as_a_worker
america is haunted by the inability to recognize, let alone reckon with, the incontrovertible fact that the relatively-broad prosperity of 1948-1973 was in fact a historical aberration and no set of economic or social policies will ever bring it back
@as_a_worker
this unique period becomes the benchmark for normative social structure, gender roles, household composition, cultural production, industrial relations, & even what liberatory social movements are supposed to look like even tho this era was vanishingly small in US/world history
@as_a_worker
each of those structures had a material base that simply can’t/won’t return: US capitalist hegemony and global rates of profit necessary to sustain that entire social world. arguing for a return to, say, the single-breadwinner family today cannot be anything but cynical moralism
@AndyinDC1
And yet the entirety of American politics and popular imagination is devoted to the notion that this era of prosperity was our birthright and our baseline, and that we can get back to it if we just wish it hard enough.
america is haunted by the inability to recognize, let alone reckon with, the incontrovertible fact that the relatively-broad prosperity of 1948-1973 was in fact a historical aberration and no set of economic or social policies will ever bring it back
@as_a_worker
this unique period becomes the benchmark for normative social structure, gender roles, household composition, cultural production, industrial relations, & even what liberatory social movements are supposed to look like even tho this era was vanishingly small in US/world history
@as_a_worker
each of those structures had a material base that simply can’t/won’t return: US capitalist hegemony and global rates of profit necessary to sustain that entire social world. arguing for a return to, say, the single-breadwinner family today cannot be anything but cynical moralism
@AndyinDC1
And yet the entirety of American politics and popular imagination is devoted to the notion that this era of prosperity was our birthright and our baseline, and that we can get back to it if we just wish it hard enough.