As the country finds itself in the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, people have been looking back to the first Great Depression to learn from FDR’s administration and how it handled the crisis. But it is not only New Deal politicians who have something to teach us. In the 1930s, working people and their movements responded to the… return to article
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Reader Comments (4)Page 1 of 1 pagesA very inspiring story, and a timely reminder that “change” comes from the bottom-up, not the top-down. Thank you.
Posted by marcello09 on Apr 13, 2009 at 12:23 PM Great story… but what is with this bit of red-baiting and anti-communism:
“But fealty to the Communist Party and the resultant ideological purity had its down side. In 1943, with World War II having revived the economy, laws preventing foreclosure were abandoned and the Coops were again faced with foreclosure.”
Must you always toss in a bit of anti-communism?
It was capitalism with the only “downside.”
As far as “fealty to the Communist Party?”
Here, let me try my hand at this…
How about trying out “fealty” to the Democrats and Obama and those pretenders to “progressivism” who slobber all over him?
Alan L. Maki
Warroad, Minnesotahttp://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/
Posted by alanmaki on Apr 27, 2009 at 7:06 PM I’m sure many of those Jewish tenants are turning over in their graves , at what the Zionist are doing to the reputation of the Jewish people…None the less…This is an excellent example of what can be accomplished if people work together , and apply a little common-sense. Social policies do work for regular folks ; not just for the filthy rich.
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