Consumer reports is the evolution of the work by F.J. Schlink, an activist socialist, anti-industry and anti-advertising individual who founded Consumer's Research Inc. by 1929. The early consumers movement is a who's who of communist and socialist activists. Schlink became disillusioned after the communist party striked in 1935 and tried to take over his organization entirely.

Arthur Kallet, a die-hard commie, sided with the union and because of it, soon parted ways with Schlink. The he took Schlink's idea, mainstreamed it, called it Consumer's Union which then published "Consumer Reports" for the gullible masses who couldn't see through commie agit-prop. Kallet then left the organization in 1957 as the US communist party fractured into different movements while debating where to go with it.

A guy named J.B. Matthews was part of Consumer's Research and wrote a manifesto in 1935, Partners in Plunder targeted at US businesses. He, after a decade of being a true proletariat rebel, had an epiphany, realized he was working against American's best interests, and changed to a right-winger and testified before the House committee on unamerican activities on the whole lot.

Just because something is not well known does not mean it is not true.

Hopefully, my posts act as a spur to folks to do their own research and find out all that of which they have been ignorant.

Now don't feel too bad because you call me names and assume I'm just pulling this stuff out of the air.

;-)