What is Historical Materialism?

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What do you call it when a nation taxes itself for leading the world in production for decades, allows unions to raise costs to a level that forces manufacturing offshore, then decides 5 percent of the population should pay 95 percent of the taxes along with a massive expansion of government welfare progrms?

WhoWee	What is Historical Materialism? What do you call it when a nation taxes itself for leading the world in production for decades, allows unions to raise costs to a level that forces manufacturing offshore, then decides 5 percent of the population should pay 95 percent of the taxes along with a massive expansion of government welfare progrms?