Evaluation of Roosevelt’s New Deal

① Roosevelt’s New Deal is basically a progressive phenomenon in modern American history, playing a positive and affirmative role. It provided valuable experience for the monopoly bourgeoisie to maintain the rule of capitalism, and was imitated by future bourgeois governments in the United States and many other Western countries; its implementation was the inheritance and development of certain democratic traditions of the bourgeoisie in American history.

② The role of the New Deal only temporarily and slightly alleviated some of the serious situations caused by the economic crisis in the U.S. economy. It did not and could not overcome the crisis (why?). The result of the implementation of the New Deal was to consolidate and strengthen the dominant position of the monopoly bourgeoisie in the country's economy and politics. Some of the measures it included to make concessions to the working class were nothing more than a means for the bourgeoisie to deal with the labor movement. The phenomenon of the U.S. industrial production index rising year by year after the implementation of the New Deal is not the effect of the New Deal's prescriptions, but the result of the spontaneous laws of the capitalist economic cycle. The bourgeois reformist policies it contains are extremely harmful to the working class and the revolutionary cause.

③We should neither overly praise nor overly disparage Roosevelt’s New Deal. It pushed American private monopoly capitalism quickly and on a large scale into American-style, non-fascist state monopoly capitalism, which to a certain extent improved the situation of the working people, eased class struggle, and saved and strengthened the The monopoly capitalist system in the United States. However, its result has deepened the contradictions of capitalism and caused new and more profound crises. However, it cannot be said that the main purpose of the New Deal was to prevent farmers and workers from participating in revolutionary actions, because at that time the United States did not have the subjective and objective conditions for a proletarian revolution.