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>>21017765
>Even the mega projects of the last century only came about in America when The Government understood what its job was ... But tell this to a Marxist and they'll laugh and demand utopia and ignore the great good things that the government model was actually capable of doing, with an informed and intelligent electorate guiding it.
That wasn't an accident. The period you're describing was when communism was perceived as a serious threat both globally and domestically. That doesn't mean Roosevelt's government was "communist" but they figured they had to take some of the steam out of it and also win control over the labor movement, in which communists were quite strong and where labor strikes were happening all the time, and basically create a deal between labor and capital to balance out the extreme income and wealth inequality of the previous period. (And most of the good books about the history of this period were written by Marxists or at least historians sympathetic to it.)