The Most Radical Speech in Presidential History
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- In 1944, an American president proposed a sweeping reorganization of American life: a "second Bill of Rights" that recognized not only political rights, but economic rights as well. Franklin Roosevelt's speech would today be regarded as far outside the political mainstream: but when it was proposed, it was overwhelmingly popular with ordinary Americans. Harvey Kaye, historian of the American left, explains.
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0:00 The New Deal
1:55 Roosevelt's Speech
4:10 A Second Bill of Rights?
6:35 Conservative Reaction
7:40 Credits
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Modern left wingers are vermin
Sadly I'm broke as a church mouse so there's not much I can give in the monetary sense.
Still, would you be interested on doing a video on Esperanto, the easy-to-learn artificial language created as a means to end war and nationalist strife, and embraced by socialists worldwide?
There's a lot of interesting stories to be told about Esperanto's history, its ideology and various speakers, and seeing as the number of speakers seem to be dwindling every year, it would be nice to see this universal language get a revival :)
@@mynamejeff3545 good, don't waste your money on these vermin
@@robertwinslade3104 socialism killed 100 million people
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 plus capitalism (even without its wars) kills at least 8 million people every year bc its not profitable to feed them. So even if this made up number would be true the death toll of capitalism would be higher
Almost like your country has always had the answers, and just refuses to implement them. Thank you Gravel Institute. Y'all do great work.
We seem to do the right thing eventually, but only after exhausting all the wrong options first.
Another example of this is that China is the most educated nation on the topic of climate change, yet they are the worst polluter. I wonder why
More like the people have the right or better answer, but are always subject to the obstruction of the monied minority.
FDR called them the Economic Royalists.
@@rickb3650 he was an old money WASP too. Oh they hated him and called him a class traitor or "that man". Important to recognize Eleanors role in it too they made such a difference.
@@Matthew-pm5ic
Actually in some areas China is kicking our asses on climate change. Their reforest efforts far outpace Americans by miles.
Roosevelt’s four freedoms were the most radical idea to ever reach the presidency, and it’s a damn shame that we still have to fight for their merits almost eighty years out
Roosevelt betrayed Eastern Europe, and doomed those countries to Communist oppression, when he gave them away to Stalin. Roosevelt lied, and did not want those countries to be free. "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful" (Psalm 1:1). Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Establish the Kingdom in Jerusalem, and keep the world safe from Democracy!
@@davidlafleche1142 yikes dude. I think most of us would like to keep the world safe from people like you
@@darrellrichmond9686 Someone should cite James 5:1-6 to David here, who has entirely missed the point. "1 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you." So relevant it could have been written today.
@@davidlafleche1142 Stalin had them already. FDR didn't want to go into another war.
@@davidlafleche1142 Did you forget to take your meds?
Should be noted that FDR was largely pushed to these progressive politics by Cabinet members like Harry Hopkins and Henry Wallace, two somewhat unheralded men who were highly influential. Read about them if you haven't already.
@: Kevin-Van: Helfenstien. why are you debating whether or not he was president when he already served the terms, already died, and time has passed to the tune of decades? what relevance does it have?
@: Kevin-Van: Helfenstien. Except the 27 times it was. :D
@: Kevin-Van: Helfenstien. Ummm no it was not a big problem. You remind me of the psycho-loons who go into court and claim the judge has no authority over them because they spell their name without capitalization, plus the fringe on the flag LMFAO!@!!
@@scuter8700 it's one of those stop the steal things.
@@miahmagick I guess he mustn't like the Bill of Rights either.
Also check out Henry Wallace's "The Century of the Common Man" - perhaps the best radical speech in should-have-been-president history.
The US would have been a very different place had Henry Wallace been able to implement his vision. The world would have become a much better place had he become president after FDR
I was hoping some e would mention this before I had to
As an Iowan, I weep often that he is hardly even mentioned here. I weep at all other moments that he was forced out of his position near the helm by the DNC.
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@@spartansfan1026 its weird that the DNC keeps shooting itself in Iowa
FDR's proposed "Second Bill of Rights" in 1944 is worthy of a read, it will make you inspired but also angry that it never came to pass:
Employment (right to work[notes 1])
An adequate income for food, shelter, and recreation
Farmers' rights to a fair income
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Decent housing
Adequate medical care
Social security
Education
I've been saying this for years. A Workers Bill of Rights. That is my dream. Workers rights as the next wave of Civil Rights.
1/8,
That’s an F-
Terrible job, America. Try harder pls.
He was ahead of his time. Those things are exactly what Americans need today for true equity to exist. He was the best of us.
huh, other things aside this would have made farmers really rich. "fair income" implies as much. Plus in a world like that food would be absolutely premium as everyone needs it all the time and not everyone's getting enough of it.
@@DadBod1818 sure: there’s been waaaaaay more unionization thanks to the pandemic
80 Years later and we've never been further away from a bill of basic economic rights.
Farther than ever since half the country has been brainwashed to consistently vote against their own best interests. GOP is a Frankenstein.
@@mtn1793 GOP cared about rights until Lincoln died and then they cared about Wall St.
@@havable Yes. It didn’t take long at all for the American business model to find its stride.
this shit is beautiful. perfectly articulates a hope for the nation that i think a lot of americans, myself included, share. thanks gravel and other like yall who continue to formulate and explain these ideas solely out of good faith. it brings me joy.
This is their most emotianl video yet, yank you.
Far and away the greatest president in American history. It is an absolute tragedy that American politicians of modern day have been completely outflanked by him on all of these issues, and that we still are not where he was leading us almost 100 years ago.
The reason for that - if anyone is curious - is the Democratic Party falling into the hands of moderates in the mid forties, chiefly initiated by the choice of Harry S. Truman (the guy who became president after FDR’s death) as VP on the 1944 presidential ticket by the Democratic establishment instead of Roosevelt’s preference Henry Wallace, the VP of Roosevelt’s 3rd term and an avid force for Roosevelt’s policies. The party under Truman’s floundering terms became a party not of those who wanted to fight for the New Deal and the Four Freedoms, but of those who would seek to stall progress, we have never recovered.
@@rupertpupkin1476Same with Bill Clinton moving the party further towards the right as when GOP first became the "Party of No" in the 90s - just because he wanted to do *something*. Talk about canceling , Republicans canceled everything good. Sex, rock'n roll, hip hop, labor unions, regulations on corporations, you name it.
@@rickwrites2612 Bill Clinton totally wrecked the Democratic Party far more than people realize, you are absolutely correct. Tsongas or Brown would have led us in a far better direction.
Lmao the dems have never been on the side of the people. The new deal failed. WW2 was the actual reason that the US economy recovered.
@@haswright4933 well that’s somewhat of a misnomer, when FDR took office from Republican President Herbert Hoover in 1933 unemployment was at 25%, productivity had plummeted, and Americans had no real safety net to fall back on. During FDR’s pre WW2 tenure, unemployment dropped 10%, GDP greatly increased, productivity increased, tens of thousands of schools and other public works projects were built, a minimum wage was implemented, and Americans started to benefit from unemployment aid and social security which guaranteed many from starvation and absolute poverty (this along with a myriad of other reform to do with banking and general government function which also benefited the people regardless of if it hurt gigantic corporations). So FDR did undeniably aid in ending the depression and certainly it’s damaging effects; it’s likely that even if WW2 never happened we still would have completely gotten out of it, granted at a slower rate (for obvious reasons).
As a Colorado resident who has struggled financially in the past I am undoubtedly for government (taxpayer) funded healthcare for all American citizens. I would much rather see my tax dollars go to providing healthcare for poor families than to see yet another greedy bank get a bailout for the sole reason that they gambled with everyone's futures and lost. The housing crisis (and it is a crisis) in this country is another issue that I truly believe is in dire need of resolving.
sad fact, but the government is run by the capitalist class and only gives a shit about any working people's suffering when said working people are ready to start a revolution against the system where employees work while unelected parasites ("employers") get all the profit.
The crazy part is that single-payer healthcare would reduce health care cost for people who pay for insurance right now by as much as half, just look at other European nations that spend half of what we do
All ideals America needs now more than ever. Stronger Unions, Improving Environmental Protections, Taxing the Ultra Wealthy, Wealth Redistribution, & Medicare For All.
Low taxes, small government, free market and individualism is what I want
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 That's pretty much what the US has now ... and it sucks ... I don't see how expanding these will make anything better.
@@milokojjones how are they bad?
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 they've created wealth inequality and less security and opportunities for most ppl. Inheritance is one if the biggest problems with meritocracy as well. I suppose if you don't engage in union-busting it could balance out.
@@rickwrites2612 so keeping most of your money, limited government interference, freedom in the market and treating people as individuals is bad,
We need another president like Roosevelt
And we need a congress to support them
We had a guy that likes to wear mittens.
We need revolution.
At this point I'd commit necromancy to get both Roosevelts back
capitalism will reinforce itsself and socdems are one of the responses that capitalism makes when it it under threat(the other one being facism). also when the threat of revolution goes away the gains will be taken back. also all the communism we see now has happened through revolution, not the electoral process, just ask salvador allende(former democratically elected president of chile who got asassinated by a us backed coup when he tried to be a socdem).
I want another reagan
Americans: *Call for moderate social democratic reforms*
Politicians: Anyways... so that's communism, now, enjoy prison
Have you ever tried getting a job?
I teared up during this. Honestly this is the politics and America I see. The idea of the pursuit of happiness using Democracy is my only real political standpoint and I wish conservatives understood it. I don't care about socialism, capitalism, or communism. I just want us to try to become better with every decision. FDR was right 100%.
I love seeing people say stuff like this. I think many people (myself included) get too caught up in the ideology of it all, when really what should decide our policy is solely what the people want. Who cares what label it falls under, if the idea helps people, do it. It really can be that simple.
Democracy, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%. Democracy is not the answer, look at America today, look at it's President and Vice President, they are political whores, they aren't people of substance or quality. I'd prefer any conservative president from the past over either of those 2 fools
@@Antipodean33 Dude... that’s not how the world even works??? Most Americans are still in agreement on fundamental issues by more than 65%. The presidential race is always close because both of our parties are ineffective and useless, but when it comes down to the actual policy, it’s never 51/49. Name a single time in the history of the country when 51% of people have voted to take away the rights of 49%. It doesn’t happen. I hate to get aggressive about this, but it seems like you want to blame the idea of democracy for your personal gripes with society rather than blame those who take advantage of a corrupt system for those same problems you experience. You talk about Biden and Harris, but it seems like you would be complaining no matter who was president. You are the prime example of throwing the baby out with the bath water right now.
@@Antipodean33 For one, we're still a representative democracy and conservatives almost constantly hold more spots in power than Democrats. Conservatives hold more state and local positions and are highly competitive in the Senate and House due to how many states are conservative. The President isn't a king and is one branch of office, there are still all of your local elected leaders and reps. So no 51% in our Democracy does not rule over the other 49%. That is actual Fascist propaganda to turn you away from the idea of American Democracy. Your local and state representatives have more power over your life than some president.
Secondly, you're calling Biden and Harris political whores after seeing the Trump Administration in office? Are you kidding me? Are you serious?!? You're blind if you don't see how absolutely ironic and hypocritical that statement and idea even is. Biden and the people he knows are by far multiple calibers better in the terms of having the skills of a politician than Trump ever will. He's not great and Biden really isn't the man I want in office. But at least Biden doesn't have his children and their spouses running the executive branch. I'd trust that old fool Bidens aids, staff, and cabinet any day over Trump and his Beverly Hillbilly of a family running the place.
@@stirrcrazy2704 What you think of Biden and Harris as America's leaders
I believe that if any left-wing movement wants to succeed, it needs to promote the idea of the economic bill of rights!
why are self-proclaimed "lefties" ignoring what the US Navy is doing to Hawaii?
#RedHill
@: Kevin-Van: Helfenstien. Why the fuck should we care
@@mynamejeff3545 He's one of those lunatics that gets lost on minutia so he can pretend like he has something relevant to say. Delusions of grandeur when he'd be lucky to make average.
@@donHooligan you know, it's entirely possible that someone isn't ignoring something, but rather just hasn't heard about it.
@@psuedonym9999
yeah, i don't really care about triggering egos.
type "Empire Files Native Hawaiians Fight US Navy" and leave them a like and comment on their suppressed video.
...or don't. be decent, or don't.
i really don't care too much anymore about people with twisted priorities.
"Don't Look Up" is not about a comet...it's about American priorities.
Something I think about a lot. The most socialist president we ever had was one of the most beloved presidents of all time
He was a liberal. Don’t forget about all the black people this light attempt of social democracy and the few good things it brought for some didn’t apply to them. This isn’t socialism this was compromise.
Not even close
_"the most beloved presidents of all time"_ LOL
He wasn't a socialist, he did what he did to save capitalism in the US, something he did remarkably well, he saw it as his greatest achievement.
If he didn't give in to actual socialists threatening a literal revolution he'd never do what he did.
He was at best a social democrat which is basically a centre-left liberal on an international scale, not even near a democratic socialist. He basically made a more "civilized" capitalism (exempt certain minorities). But yeah relative to the American "political center" he would very well be perceived as a socialist. Hell the last "liberal" president the US had was probably JFK. Everyone else since has been centre-right or conservative.
Organize communities, unionize workers. Everything else will fall into place.
yes
Hard to organize with YT thwarting every single video that might lead someone to vote 3rd party. Pure evil power protecting power…
Unions are nothing more than organized mafias. They steal your money and give it to the same political parity that is agreeing you over.
@@JS-nd1po nice tired propaganda you're spreading. It looks a bit tired since that's all you rightoids can say about unions, even though every country utilizing unions have enabled workers to have more rights. Bootlicker
@@JS-nd1po Cool, never knew I was in the maffia since I was 15 year olds. Nice to know that not only do I get higher pay, legal assistance, benefits and better working conditions, I'll also get to do cool crime stuff.
My favorite FDR story. It was the height of the Depression with many workers out of jobs. FDR heard that the Board of Directors was planning to give a huge raise to the CEO of General Motors. FDR made an appointment to see its Chairman at the NYC Harvard Club. FDR told him he had heard rumors and he was sure that they were false. He asked for confirmation that it was false, and he said that he would try to keep these rumors from going to the press.
Oh, where would the US be today if FDR got to serve out his fourth term and got the economic bill of rights? If only…
And if they didn’t murder JFK
@@mtn1793 i feel like JFK probably would've been shot down by Congress a lot unless he was as savvy and experienced as LBJ was in politics
@@khameriengibson1975 I understand what you’re saying. LBJ was has that legend of convincement skills and did get it passed. But Kennedy has the other legend of pure vision into the future and against business as usual. We’ll never know.
We have a "Negative Liberties Bill of Rights" rights of what cant be done to you by others.
Now we need a "Positive Liberties Bill of Rights" Rights of what you can't be denied of having and of doing!
Well said.
I don't see how FDR's vision is radical but the reality of today isn't.
You’re correct. Our current situation is crazy on a whole new level of radical. We’re being consumed by a parasitic culture based on false advertisement and greed. It is very close to the weakest our nation has ever been. We are a social animal. Our strength is in cooperation.
The fact that anything worth having is worth working for is radical to you? And that you’re entitled to nothing you’re not willing to work for? Do you still in believe in Santa Claus, little boy?
@@Lightning-lv4bx lol do you have an actual point to make?
@@chairmanoxygen6811 Do you have a job or do you just mooch off welfare while still living in Mommy and Daddy’s basement? I have nothing but contempt for worthless deadbeats clamoring for free stuff because they’re too lazy to work. Go eat another hot pocket and binge another season of Rick and Morty.
@@Lightning-lv4bx you sound very intelligent and sane lol
We need to remember who we are and who we can be as a country. We need more people like Roosevelt in the coming generations. 🇺🇸
Nah, we need fascist killers. Talkers will be redundant.
@@jingbot1071 Uhhh… Roosevelt kind of got us to fight a war with fascists when it was still a controversial issue.
@@brutusmagnuson315 True statement.
I guess what I mean to say is, we need nazi-puncher Roosevelt first before moving on to new deal Roosevelt.
@@jingbot1071 Hmm, I see where you're coming from but I worry the prescription here seems to imply force/stick will somehow solve anything, which would merely exacerbate the situation I think. The causality by which we got here in the first place seems to perhaps be backwards, the tail wagging the dog, ie because existence _precedes_ essence, blaming all the MAGA people for instance (the essence), without understanding the surrounding material context (the existence) that creates/catalyzes their ontological perception/embrace of such idiocy is inevitably a Sisyphean task that will ultimately (likely) not align toward a prescription that can _actually change_ this "inverted totalitarianism" (see: Sheldon Wolin for more there) via passing a threshold of class consciousness, but merely fuel a feedback loop of _further_ reaction perpetually, kinda the story of civilization generally honestly lol, first as tragedy then as farce.
So you prob already know this but just to outline my point here and ground it in a historical continuity that is often (uncoincidentally) overlooked, fascism emerges from material conditions inevitably generated by capitalism's inherent zero-sum logic and class antagonisms, so like a hydra, getting rid of the fascists does nothing to remedy the fact that our corporate empire is essentially a different flavor of fascism and has been since the end of WWII, the "cold" war being that interim period of the US basically imposing Bretton-Woods financial system on the rest of the earth, particularly brutally in the global south/"third world" (see like: literally any of the CIA's operational history, "regime change", I'll list some books on this at the end if want). That dumbass Truman was basically foisted by corporate power for FDR's final term and boy did he kick things off badly by dropping the first and only nuclear weapon mass civilian death pretty much entirely just to draw radioactive lines in the sand to the USSR who had agreed to FDR to enter the Pacific front at Yalta (I would say uncoincidentally is my point), the 2nd bomb dropped mere hours after their scheduled invasion. No coincidence you immediately get Taft-Hartley and presidential term limits, can't let that shit happen again (not to mention the whole "business plot" thing which amidst this whole Jan.6th thing _you'd think_ might get mentioned since it's an _actual_ fascist coup attempt plotted by wall street, involving nonother than Prescott Bush, shocker, that got exposed only by the marine guy they wanted to lead it Smedley Butler _actually_ having a conscience and doing so - as opposed to the Jan.6 thing of a bunch of dipshits that perceive themselves entirely as consumers with no cohesive political/class conception taking selfies and shit).
I mean in the most important ways the nazis didn't really lose, hell we absorbed the _literal_ nazi leadership in Operation Paperclip and the ratlines into south america, unsurprisingly extensively used by the -SS 2.0 for transnational capital- CIA for "regime change" in Operation Condor with folks like Klaus Barbie in Bolivia and Paul Schafer in Chile, the latter for example cultivating an ideological space friendly to Pinochet's US-backed ascension to oust democratically elected Allende in the first 9/11 in 1973.
NATO and color revolutions, Operation Gladio, Operation Cyclone, Iran installing the Shah in '53, Guatemala in '54, Sukarno in Indonesia, Lumumba in the Congo, Operation Mongoose/Northwoods and the absurd/criminal embargo of Cuba, honestly this is the tip of the imperial iceberg, far too many insanely grotesque operations to list, some even domestic to the US and quite related to this historical obscurantism like Operation Mockingbird, to which I'll quote William Casey CIA director under Reagan aka absolute demon regarding its efficacy, _"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."_
Anyway, I'm clearly digressing with the history here now sorry lol (though I do think it's important generally unknown/glossed over context, unsurprising since it serves a purpose), but I guess my point here is to illuminate a descriptive (as opposed to normative) analysis, namely that so long as the material base organization is capitalism, the social structure that will inevitably arise to maintain this power hierarchy will eventually become "fascist", either one dedicated to an ultranationalist ideological lodestar or one guided by an unconscious technocratic "efficiency" devotion to the capitalist machinery, both load-bearing political parties essentially represent and are of course merely two sides of the same coin of bourgeois dictatorship (would argue their seeds planted in the very -counterrevolution- "founding" in the federalist/antifederalist split, but this is long as hell and thus no one's going to read it anyway lol...). This is of course also how fascism arises in the first place (anywhere you want to pin its origin really - the KKK or Italy or Germany, it's that same ultimately transient/hollow/false "ressentiment" social glue), as a political response to square the circle of capitalism's massive contradictions and tenuous social fabric, cultivated over time precisely because it maintains this status quo and is thus _allowed_ and heavily funded by capital since they benefit (cui bono), _"the suppression of the left amidst popular enthusiasm"_ as Robert Paxton put it in the Anatomy of Fascism.
tldr; _"Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems"_ - the late great Michael Brooks
Some books: The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot, Killing Hope by William Blum, The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, War is a Racket by Smedley Butler (marine dude mentioned as attempted military leader for "business plot" coup, Bonus army thing might shed some light as well, M1917 tanks literally rolled out to suppress veteran protestors merely asking for further compensation for service in WWI), etc. etc. Or just like look up "regime change" or any of the CIA's operational history or check out that Marx guy.
I remember watching Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore showcased FDR's second bill of rights speech. I can't help but be touched and felt numb by what could have been more of a promising future. Thank you, The Gravel Institute for this video
Inspired by the speech depressed by how far away from reality it is.
It’s only “radical” if you’re a fascist. I’m a common sense guy, and this speech is reasonable and moderate in my opinion
Nothing says “common sense” like calling centrists and republicans fascist.
@@michaelalbrecht9468 "I'm a conservative who thinks I'm a centrist, and this is _your_ fault!"
@@michaelalbrecht9468 maybe if they didn't fit the definition nobody would call them that? If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it's probably a duck.
And centrists are just conservatives who won't admit it because when you're okay with the status quo, that's an inherently conservative position
@@michaelalbrecht9468 Mate, Roosevelt was literally a centrist, you're so used to your fucked up spectrum of politics in the US that you literally ONLY HAVE A RIGHT WING, from liberals to conservatives, they're all centrists or people to the right, specially when it comes to economic affairs.
Someone like Bernie Sanders is the only one to the left within your real politic spectrum, the others are either centrist liberals or conservatives ranging from right wing moderates (most of the Democrat Party) to full on protofascists (most of the Republican Party).
@@michaelalbrecht9468 Herr Albrecht, bitte for your hurt feelings, but I didn’t say that. Mass homelessness just makes sense to you, in the richest country on earth? Please put that in your official party platform then. Have the courage of your convictions.
Let's not forget FDR's VP, Henry Wallace.
It's very sad that capitalism has pulled the wool over peoples eyes. Altruism and socialism feels good. When everyone gets their basic needs met, people don't steal, exploit, or lash out. We need to help and take care of eachother. Innovation is bred when people can focus on invention, not just surviving. Ty for covering this.
Yeah, thank god for FDR with his red lining policies. Really helped out the impoverished. Let us not forget the interment of Americans with Japanese heritage from the USA that he put into camps. All those people lost billions of dollars of wealth.
@@mikeyourbag8997 Yeah, those were sad mistakes. Kinda like trump is trying to pull off but without silver lining. Never Ever GOP Again!
@@mtn1793 Who cares about Trump. He's been out of office for nearly a year. What about Obama causing Libya to be a slave state? Lmao, first half white president making a slave state. FDR was a racist and his policies led to the poverty we have now. Let us not judge him by his words but by his actions.
BTW i can tell you follow the evangelical left religion. Please go read and step away from the mob.
So much wrong with your statement. First off- how has capitalism done anything to pull the wool over people's eyes? capitalism is the greatest system for the distribution and increase in wealth in human history without a doubt. But capitalism is not inherently tied to anything beyond provision of services and products to people who want them. Forced altruism is an oxymoron- which is what socialism presents. Nothing altruistic about it.
_"When everyone gets their basic needs met, people don't steal, exploit, or lash out. "_ The entire history of human civilization suggest otherwise. You really think there haven't been people that steal, exploit and lash out (among other things) that haven't had their basic needs met?
@@mtn1793 You're such a partisan hack- what have you got to say about the current houseplant of a POTUS?
Videos like this tend to give me some sense of hope. I wish I could feel that more often.
Hope is the enemy.
determination should replace hope, if we wish to win.
Hope removes all direct action.
@@donHooligan I might have been using the wrong word? It's not like I don't try to do something, at the very least try and adopt a lot of this information into my discussions with people who may not fully know or understand FDR, socialism, social democracy, etc.
@@Big_Gulps_Huh
apologies.
i'm not a good communicator.
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Love this, we are not free if we are in need. The flip side of Roosevelt's solutions to this statement is where we live today.
Indeed, the other flip side to transforming and capturing our external world, strip-mining all resources and social meaning/trust for profit, is that these same "rightist reactionary forces" have at this point pretty thoroughly imprisoned our thoughts and interior lives through this same enclosure process, cementing that "capitalist realism" through a consciously maintained globally enforced reification of this insanity. And so "freedom" to many in the working class circumstantially unconscious of their class function in a wider context, becomes perceived purely as an individual consumer, an entirely narrowed sense of individual material self-interest, the neoliberal/neoclassical econ conception of "rationality" as basically limited to getting jalapeño poppers at Applebee's (tm) (r) (c) (instead of, I don't know, _literally anything?!_ ) and thus when that rather arbitrary/banal "freedom" too is momentarily stripped from people for a purpose broader than that narrow consciousness, they react accordingly as it's pretty much all they have sadly. Hell in a strictly material individual sense, it's all we all have really, and it's all we'll ever have (inevitably less and less gradually) if we don't somehow take a leap of faith despite this precarity and act _collectively_ , transforming from a class in itself into a class _for_ itself, and overcome our civilizational thanatos embrace into into the "common ruin of the contending classes" (my god, climate change _alone_ ...). Actually I think Zizek makes my only point here much more succinctly,
_"We 'feel free' because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom"_ - *_*sniff_** Zizek
And of course, some other guy articulating it far more clearly:
_“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”_ - some guy (Marx)
God I love the gravel institute.
We had a president like Roosevelt here on Uruguay, his name was Jose Batlle. He was the starter for many of the social changes here, and is remembered with great care for most of the people.
FDR's New Deal was called Socialism by conservatives back then, too...
Back then it was closer to the truth than it is today though, FDR had the looming threat of a socialist revolution breathing down his neck which is why the new deal was given to the people, to save capitalism.
It's inspiring to see an older person still optimistic about the future. I know from experience that it's easy to become jaded.
from outside america, in a country with free healthcare for the poor, pensions for disabled people, paid maternity leave, paid holidays, healthy unions etc etc, i sincerely hope americans are capable of taking this message in. i really do.
I have now screamed the word "damn" several times after the end of this video. Thank you for inciting that.
This might be their best video yet! Great job Gravel Institute!
FDR "Saved" Capitalism. Gravel Institute, its time to shine a light on perhaps the greatest president US never had, Eugene V. Debs.
the gravel institute doing such important work. my sincerest thanks to all who contribute to it.
Glad Harvey could join and contribute in a video!
The laying out of FDRs Economic Bill of Rights is one of my favorite speeches from an American President.
Can only imagine what the post war period would have been like if Henry Wallace wasnt pushed out as VP at the 44' convention and succeded FDR.
Thank you for the content! Someone has to combat the misinformation coming from Prager U.
Thank you
These videos deserve so much more views.
Really awesome.
Excellent video. Positive notions of how to move forward is something the left desperately needs-- videos exposing the atrocities of american imperialism at home and abroad are also important, but I think people are most interested in how to materially improve lives
I had never heard of this part of Roosevelt’s history, so glad to know it now
Amazing video. This needs to be shared far and wide.
Great video!
This is something that should be pushed for today. It's still relevant, and it can be cloaked in patriotism and American history to help win people over.
Sometimes I wonder how different America and the world today would be if FDR lived past the end of his last term
Came here because I saw the Kyle Krystal and Friends interview, really great stuff keep it up! I wish I could afford to donate, but please do keep up the good work. I've really enjoyed everything I've watched so far!!!
Excellent video as always guys!
The Gravel Institute does Great work. They have something valuable and informative to take away from each episode.
I'd like to see the How China Got Rich (And Russia Got Poor) video please. It looked interesting!
It was a good video and a shame they deleted it. They recommend the book "How China Escaped Shock Therapy" by Isabella Weber.
@@communistorange25 That's almost more of a tease! Thank you, I appreciate you sharing
These videos are so helpful!
Thanks, Gravel Institute!
I was raised in a very right-wing conservative church, and I never knew that this even came about. This really shows the concerted effort of the reactionary right. Thank you.
Right wing churches are awful. Greedy money grubbing brainwashing cults is what most of them are.
If any politician proposed New Deal-like legislation today, they'd be laughed out of the room as a pie in the sky radical. But it's exactly what the country needs right now.
The propaganda machine of the oligarchs is laser focused on keeping that from ever happening again.
Again, great video!
Well said. Quite inspirational. Thank you.
This is truly wonderful and inspiring.
Thank you.......this is a beautiful essay.
great video as always
I totally LOVE this channel!! So inspiring and educational
*I do believe in it. I hope one day, we come together as united.*
Hey what happened to: "How China Got Rich (And Russia Got Poor)?" I didn't get to see it, but it seems like it was uploaded and gone within 5 hours.
Yeah it just disappeared. I happened to have it open and when I refreshed the page it said "this video has been listed as private".
Yeah, I want to see that one too!
My guess is that people started calling them tankies since most of their audience are social democrats and lukewarm leftists.
@@panafricanmarxist7632 It had a pretty good like to view ratio though
@@thomasscream4179 True, but it’s like the time when they made the tweet about leftists storming the capitol being a good thing. They were correct but anyone who isn’t Marxist or something similar will think that they’re tankies trying to justify unrest and chaos.
Wonderful video!
Outstanding video
How in the hell did we go from this to Reagan?
Read THE FIGHT FOR THE FOUR FREEDOMS- as my editor said, answer WTF happened?
capitalists control america
Ford was an unpopular president, Carter was an unpopular president
Actually cried during this. Amazing video thank you Mr Kaye.
Thanks for the video :)
As always these videos are informative.
Truly makes me wonder if a president as eloquent as FDR would ever be electable in the 2020's. Hope so.
They would be, most Americans support things like universal healthcare.
Bernie sanders would’ve won if super pacs didn’t exist.
I think and hope you two are right!
Sanders actually won the 2016 Dem primary.
all actual evidence shows this.
1 : 77,000,000,000 are the legitimate (impossible) odds that Hillary Clinton actually won.
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI Yessir we do but unfortunately the oligarchs have a multi-billion dollar propaganda and political machine to stop that from happening.
We've gone so backwards as a nation.
We've become everything bad that dystopian sci-fi films like Blade Runner warned us about.
Hope is a lovely feeling far too fleeting at the moment. Thank you
Yooo new gravel nice
I'm fucking crying rn. Thanks for this Harvey Kaye and Gravel institute. It's easy to fall into a doomer mindset, so these videos really get me going again. thank you
Ty
Why did you take down your recent China video, were you pressured?
I have always been stunned by the progress made by the 1940s and I have been equally stunned at the failures since. We won the war, lost the peace and now are fighting the same battles again. We cannot go quietly
some nice history. thanks!! and go Harvey! thanks for repping Wisconsin well
Those rights must be for all of the people of the world. Get money out of politics.
Get capitalism out of humanity.
@@TheCureEnjoyer A very true statement!
this is the best one so far!
Ty 👍🏼
This was a profound watch. I can't help but feel my heart get heavy, but hope remains firm
Amazing as usual GI!
The second bill of right could have been the next step towards making America live up to it's ideals. It lives on only in the minds of those that have cared enough to read. This isn't mentioned in most history books because we need people to be uncaring and dogmatic. We need people to live in fear, and fear is winning.
FDR died before he could fully implement the new deal, and the changes that were made didn't last. Vladimir Lenin also died before he was able to fully implement communism, and it was ultimately shaped into a form of ruthless state capitalism. It's frustrating how these people end up dead before they are able to actually change things on a system level. The forces to be that want to keep capitalism alive will go to ANY lengths to do so.
don't be too flattering of lenin. pretty sure that guy murdered 10s of thousands of workers during the factional fighting that occurred that earned his group their control over russia. i don't think any of them understood anything but force, and violence as punishment for not obeying. Nothing positive could ever last in such a climate of ego. The goal should always be to decentralize power, and you do that by keeping unions strong, busting monopolies and making sure no one gets "too big to fail". and certainly never by centralizing power in a one party system.... which is sort of what we have now. a political system where the the difference between the two parties is purely decorative.
@@ericaugust1501 Some would even argue Lenin betrayed the revolution, he disbanded the workers councils and had killed fellow revolutionaries during the civil war against the Russian Whites.
@@ericaugust1501 How is stating facts "flattering"? Wasn't that civil war started by the defeated Russian aristocracy after the Bolsheviks' took over? I'm pretty sure Lenin wasn't directly responsible for it, but it was a revolutionary war. People die in wars. I don't know enough about Lenin to tell you if he was a good person or not. A historian with a specialization in early 20th century Russia would be the only valid source of critique in my opinion. The point is, the system he was fighting for was objectively better than capitalism, which is what they were trying to replace. It never materialized, Stalin took over after Lenin died, and turned it into a state capitalist hellscape.
@@jaym10918 you should read up on lenin then. it wasn't a case of he killed them during a "war". he essentially betrayed and massacred the workers he pretended to represent multiple times. it's been awhile since i reviewed that history, but i recall my distinct takeaway, and that was that lenin was a mad murderous dog. sure hating the aristocrats is always valid, but he had equal hate for everyone else who did not obey him unquestionably. My point is lenin was doing nothing like FDR, i don't think the two names should ever be uttered in the same sentence in a sense of similar comparison.
@@ericaugust1501 I think you're missing the forrest from the trees. At the end of the day, it's not the figurehead I care about, it's the systems they represented. And FDR was no saint either. You ever hear of Japanese internment camps? 120000 lives uprooted by executive order. ALL powerful men and woman throughout history did terrible things to secure their stations in life. It comes with the territory. I think it's perfectly logical to put these two men in the same list when it comes to the systems change they represented.
Thank you for your work,
Always great to see and hear from Professor Kaye.
"Necessitous men are not free men"' Fucking beautiful.
When you realise "rad" is a shortened version of radical
Context is everything.
very inspiring video, thank you.
Thank you for your work :)
if supporting the second bill of rights makes me a socialist then i am 100% a socialist
Fun fact: Despite its universally accepted status in modern times, the Bill of Rights was only implemented as a compromise to get the Constitution across the finish line, after *fierce* debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists about whose job it was to protect the people's freedoms. The Federalists said in part, of course, the federal government should have a role in that and the existing Constitution did that. The Anti-Feds noted the slippery slope of centralizing too much power and asserted that the States should have this role of protecting the people's freedoms, along with the individuals themselves being explicitly guaranteed protection from certain government malfeasance. Thus, an Economic Bill of Rights as FDR proposed would likely encounter the same intense resistance from those skeptical of government action, but in the reverse. Instead of those skeptical people putting forth this Bill of Rights, they would observe the massive forced redistribution of wealth necessary to guarantee those rights and say, "NO! Under no circumstances is the government's power to be increased in this way, let alone on ME and my rich friends!" Interesting how history often rhymes - same issues of government power, same principles of freedom underlying them, yet characters taking opposite sides.
EXACTLY!
My god, I can't tell you (but I'm sure I don't need to lol) how irritating it is how reliant the mainstream corporate media is on appealing to this mythological palimpsest of history that papers over the past, like no wonder we can't reconcile with reality since it kinda relies on knowing how we got to where we are to begin with. Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States illuminates this well I think, which I only read because Taft (? I think?) said of it something like, "it's true but why'd the bastard have to go and write it" or something lol. On a related note as to why that sparked interest, see: Taft-Hartley, which along with the red scare(s) of course destroyed both the heart and soul of the labor movement and transformed our semi-class conscious public into fully atomized individual consumers over time, any social disintegration offset with the pressure valve of exporting inevitable/necessary exploitation externally via US empire (much like the _2nd_ reich in modern-day Namibia did before the 1918 - potentially-socialist-but-wasnt-thanks-SPD "revolution" ousting the Kaiser and establishing Weimar aaaand we know the rest...), Bretton-Woods being key to our contemporary financial empire and our position as "consumer of last resort", but of course entirely depending on immiseration and "regime change" imposed globally, the convenient fiction of Westphalian independent sovereign nation-states proving quite useful to cultivate this ideological lacuna that conceals this reality.
Anyway, just to supplement what you said with more random details that come to mind lol (and a slightly more cynical take on their intentions with all of this stuff, will explain why I think it's warranted after briefly), in spite of our culturally ingrained mythology, as you're getting at this type of elite control through a rube goldberg system of government made to dissipate any accountability was precisely what the "founders" intended, the constitution itself merely a brokerage between Hamiltonian eastern banker finance capital federalists and Jeffersonian land-owning slave-holding yeoman farmer antifederalists with an explicit intent to stave off what both bourgeoise "factions" agreed was an actual threat: democracy (Federalist 10 by Madison coming to mind, as it gets at this pretty explicitly). These people wrote this stuff so far up their own asses they knew at some level that "factions" would be a problem (like, no shit right? lol) but assumed their personal noblesse oblige "virtue", self-evident by their property ownership and dominion over black, poor, and indigenous people, would transcend it. Turns out that isn't a thing. Oops.
Briefly just to clarify my cynicism, and it's of course impossible to say one way or the other for certain, but I think there's a public/private euphemism thing going on to conceal and abstract/obfuscate most of the intentions that would be uncouth if said quite so directly, "freedom" for example seems to be essentially a euphemism for property and it's how you get a demon like John C Calhoun unironically arguing explicitly that "freedom _is_ slavery" on the senate floor without seemingly any awareness as to the inherent absurdity. Call it unconscious ideology or whathaveyou or intentional obscurantism, stupid or evil, despite being unclear as to which, this type of thing would of course be nothing new, I'm thinking of the optimates of the late Roman empire ("optimates" literally meaning "good men", so humble lol...) crushing the populares movement of the Gracchi bros and later Caesar, famously of course all murdered by the senate (uncoincidentally of which our own is a pretty explicit homage, no democratic accountability and appointed by state legislatures initially as stated in constitution) for the "authoritarian" threat they posed (to the oligarchy is of course the unsaid part) by crossing the _actual_ rubicon of enacting policies of land redistribution and debt cancellation. Anecdotally, coming from a fairly well-off family/situation, my dad being like a low-level Trump-esque real estate developer basically gentrifying neighborhoods for a shitton of tax credits he can then sell to banks, my god, the most boring and _extremely_ isolated 1-dimensional conversations I could possibly conceive of when coerced into interacting with him/anyone he knows and/or works with, consisting entirely of how great they are at "business" (ie how great they are at extracting surplus value/rent, efficiency as middleman - the heart of "business") or golf (shocker, the most boring sport imaginable) or whatever and yeah pretty much ending there...seemed entirely a performance honestly, the platonic ideal of inauthentic and our entire relationship clearly transactional in my dad's mind. Sorry, realizing this is becoming an unsolicited therapy session, _anyway_ lol...Even take like the og proponent of "western" ideals (lol...) Plato and his five regimes, where democracy is of course the last rung of civilizational decline before tyranny, hence why the philosopher king/aristocrats must save the rest of these dumbasses from themselves, according to these people. Aristotle if I recall noted the stability offered by ensuring a diverse set of slaves from different racial backgrounds so they're less likely to unify against their common oppressor, the list goes on and it would seem form a lineage to this very moment that in their minds is their "divine right".
Never of course do such wise and virtuous "philosopher kings" consider their own role in such a society and how it shapes that trajectory of civilizational decline, since if they did they'd have to realize that all of this is bullshit obviously, but luckily for them they have the "freedom" to _never_ confront that reality and instead continue to believe their own status as walking-deity until the day they die, or alternatively the day we are finally _"compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."_
Oh yeah just to (FAR MORE BRIEFLY I SWEAR lol) supplement your very last point,
_"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."_
Heyy prof Harvey Kaye i thoroughly enjoy your appearances on the Nomiki Konst show 🌹
Great video on FDR & that era. Thanks for sharing.
What happen to the “How China Got Rich?” video?
Commenting for the algorithm!
This video is so well done. It so clearly articulates the words of the former President and discusses the hopes and aspirations of the American people at the time - these policies and ideas seem perfectly reasonable. PragerU feels like watching cocomelon in comparison to this.
Here for the algorithm but keep fighting the good fight! Mike Gravel would be proud
In my Bill of Rights, I would implement a co-op mandate.
💪Gravel rocks!!👏👏👏
And FDR is a real asskicker💪, he was definitely the best president, his empathy and ideals put the current government body to shame, his speech was what America should be, not Tribalism, division and most of all greed!!🤔🙏✌👋
Another excellent video, Gravel
I watch UA-cam at 1.25x and I keep hearing the beginning of Yes's Roundabout in your intro. The composition is completely different (3s vs 8s) but the actual notes seem congruent. Usually I'd try my best to add something to the conversation here but I can't bear this knowledge alone any longer lol.