Is this biased reporting?

[Eirinjas]

Actually, I never said that.  Please try to avoid ranting at me - I've heard it all before.  Expressing your opinion will suffice. 

I'm a revisionist, just like Marx should have been and Engels ended up being.  Blended models seem to be best able to maintain some semblance of popular control (think Scandinavia.  Germany and Japan to a certain extent).  Of course, to attain something like that in America would require a fullscale cultural about-face with regards to the native 'adversarial' collective bargaining model. 

Ever heard of 'the American plan'?  That's an interesting time in American labour history.
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That was my opinion. Oh, and to backtrack a sec - I'm not suggesting we topple the system tomorrow and jump cold turkey on a new system. That's definitely one of the points of contention among Anarchists; whether we need a Revolution or whether we need to reform our way to those goals. Obviously, with the way society has developed it would be impossible to now divide things like farm labor proportionate to the population and with the current development and division of land, for instance. The foundation is essential though - to replace the current system, end wage slavery, redistribute the land according to need and not according to the bank account, and etc.,...

The capitalist propaganda of that era that manifested in things like 'The American Plan' are excellent examples of the unethical and destructive nature of the system. Labor has been losing ever since the mid 1800's. Real wages have been in decline for over two decades now and STILL the average Joe is lead to believe that Unions are the bad guys and corporations like Wal*Mart (which would rather shut down new stores than allow Unions) are the good guys. There are third world countries that have stronger labor unions than the U.S. - which, I think, is sad.