Ben’s Reviews > Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade > Status Update
Ben
is on page 83 of 352
“Neither Stalin nor Standard Oil… We do not believe that our choice is between Wall Street and the Kremlin”
Yeah well, those were the two options and you chose Wall Street. Sitting here seething reading about how US labor unions have been selling out workers for 100 years bc they were blindly anti-communist.
— Apr 30, 2026 06:55PM
Yeah well, those were the two options and you chose Wall Street. Sitting here seething reading about how US labor unions have been selling out workers for 100 years bc they were blindly anti-communist.
1 like · Like flag
Ben’s Previous Updates
Ben
is on page 212 of 352
“As with the Brazilian coup in 1964, [US Labor] leaders argued that the new military regime in Chile would somehow open the door to "free" trade unionism. Once again, the exact opposite happened”
I fuckin hate these ppl man
— May 07, 2026 09:14AM
I fuckin hate these ppl man
Ben
is on page 138 of 352
“Even as industrial corporations increasingly moved production outside of the heavily unionized Northeast and Upper Midwest to the non-union South and Southwest, the top officials of the AFL-CIO… were uninterested in organizing new workers” and “instead devoted much of their time to waging the Cold War overseas”
Unionism fell from 30% to 6% of workers over the last 75 years but thank God for no communism!
— May 03, 2026 06:47PM
Unionism fell from 30% to 6% of workers over the last 75 years but thank God for no communism!
Ben
is on page 45 of 352
“The world we inhabit today—one in which capital flows effortlessly across nations and multibillionaires take joyrides into outer space while a subjugated global working class remains bounded by militarized borders on an ecologically degraded planet—was shaped most decisively by the US government’s actions during the Cold War”🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
— Apr 30, 2026 11:20AM
