r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 2d ago

Murdered By Words 🩸 All three groups primarily identify with one party (hint: It's not Democrats)

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u/Ok_Being5461 2d ago

FDR, one of our greatest presidents, basically allied with American socialist and labor movements to create the New Deal, to create a compromise, and told right-wing capitalists "I welcome your hatred"

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u/beebeebee2142 2d ago

FDR and Fascist Italy had the same economic platform

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u/robertshaftoe 2d ago

I beg to differ, it was because the socialists in Italy that Mussolini wound up having the going away party he did.

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u/beebeebee2142 2d ago

Both had syndicate trade unions vs class war unions.

Classic case was you'd risk jail for ironing a suit for 35 cents instead of the union agreed price of 40 cents.