Was the purpose of Reagan and globalization to passify and immobolize people?

[jseaman0]

Reagan is credited from the right for renewing capitalism. During the 60's and 70's, the left made incredible strides and had some hard fought victories. The women's rights movement, the civil rights movement, Vietnam ended in the 70's and america lost, immigration became more open, the hippie movement/subculture, etc. People in the u.s. were collectively and cohesively expressing themselves and standing up for their rights. And they were getting them. Then in 1979 and 1980, around the same time that Jimmy Carter made the Malaise speech and he ran for re-election against reagan, it seems like america was at a crossroads. One road was to continue to do things like they did in the 60's and 70's and to take Carter's advice about not being self-indulgent and valuing consumption and ownership over material possessions. And instead valuing hard work, strong families, and communities.

The other road was of course self indulgent individualism. And immersing ourselves in greed, material consumption, and pop culture instead of worrying about what's really going on and communily fighting for our rights like they did in the 60's and 70's. Obviously america took road #2, esp because of reagan and globalization in the 80's. Sure reaganomics was supposed to cut taxes for the rich. And deregulation allowed for big corporations to move overseas, pay workers less, sell products for more, and make more money even though the u.s. workers were now out of a job. But was the true purpose of Reagan and globalization to passify and subdue the lower and middle class into the things I mentioned before rather than standing up for our rights to the govt and eventually overthrowing the bourgeoise?

[Jose Gracchus]

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This was the purpose of Reaganism.

[Rooster]

You should look into David Harvey. He talks a lot about this stuff. Thatcher in this country was your Reagan. In the 70s labour power was at it's strongest and the bourgeois tried to break it. They broke the power of the unions first, then expanded the free market financial system of capital so that work could be sent over seas. Then after that in the UK we got New Labour which cemented those ideas. I'll try to find you a video or two.

Hmm, I think this was the one I was thinking of. It's a short version of longer talks on the same subject:

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[Burn A Flag]

Yeah, I definitely agree that Reaganism basically helped passify the USA. Also, don't forget all the fascist dictatorships aided by the Reagan regime. Obviously his regime was about repressing the shit out of everything in the world that challenged bourgeois power. Remember how Reagan fired thousands of air traffic controllers? Obviously things must not have been peaceful at first but the "trickle down" effect of Reaganomics led to the middle class becoming bigger and with its expansion the expansion of passifying pop culture.

Edit: Also with the expansion of Neoliberal globalization, the ruling class effectively reduced the amount of shitty jobs that had to be filled in the USA, therefore making the workers of the USA more complacent, since average job quality was raised by the outsourcing. Because you can get away with paying less than a dollar an hour over in Asia, because no US citizens will care if some Asian country is exploiting their workers.