Not to mention the eradication of the last radical elements of the labor movement and the murder of civil rights leaders.
The gold standard had to be ended so the USD could circulate globally as the world default currency. To make sure the USD moved around the world we had to do globalization and undercut a ton of protectionist polices a la NAFTA so that places like Mexico and Vietnam are spending dollars and not pesos or dongs. Now the US is the center of global capital but it’s workers are treated even more harshly than most European nations. OP is wrong and their take is antimaterialist