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Struck by Jane McAlevey quote from 2021:

"Winning a new New Deal will require the same level of power to create a real crisis for the elite in 2021 and 2022—just as workers did from 1933 to 1935."

Profoundly disingenuous reading of history.

In the prior five years, unemployment had gone from 3% to 25%. The Harlan County War had been 1931; the Anti-Injunction Law passed in 1932*; yet union membership was at a nadir.

* The result of what McAlevey calls "advocacy"—rather than "organizing".

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