Explanation: The meme references the Cold War, but the First Red Scare happened in the 1920s, primed by the anti-dissenter repression during WW1 under US President Woodrow Wilson, may his name be always cursed, and fueled by the rise of the Soviet Union.
US workers were very often radicals before the Red Scares (with the first in the 1920s doing immense-but-not-lethal damage to US labor, but the second in the 1950s making capitalist bootlicking mainstream and setting up our current neoliberal state of affairs), getting into outright shootouts with corporate goons and government forces whenever the government chose to side with business over labor. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
Unfortunately, the US proletariat lost that spirit over the course of the Red Scares, being convinced that one more unpaid overtime shift will TOTALLY make them into a millionaire just like their boss, and that those scary pinko types want to take their only toothbrush and redistribute it to minorities.
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Explanation: The meme references the Cold War, but the First Red Scare happened in the 1920s, primed by the anti-dissenter repression during WW1 under US President Woodrow Wilson, may his name be always cursed, and fueled by the rise of the Soviet Union.
US workers were very often radicals before the Red Scares (with the first in the 1920s doing immense-but-not-lethal damage to US labor, but the second in the 1950s making capitalist bootlicking mainstream and setting up our current neoliberal state of affairs), getting into outright shootouts with corporate goons and government forces whenever the government chose to side with business over labor. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
Unfortunately, the US proletariat lost that spirit over the course of the Red Scares, being convinced that one more unpaid overtime shift will TOTALLY make them into a millionaire just like their boss, and that those scary pinko types want to take their only toothbrush and redistribute it to minorities.