Socialist Progressives
Related: About this forumFinally Found It! The Chicago Martyrs: The Famous Speeches of the Eight Anarchists
I was in the middle of reading this free online book but it mysteriously disappeared. I have now found it and wanted to share with my fellow comrades.
Available as an online book.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)and thanks for them BTW, I'm struck at how similar the issues have been in all of the time periods. To me this just supports the contention that capitalism will NOT change or stay "regulated" for long. It's time to get rid of it and take our chances on something else.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)It's the same PTB that are the enemies of Labor regardless of time period.
I'm still reading through the statements of these fine gentlemen, and it strikes me how committed they were to the cause, up until the very end, they gave the finger to the capitalists.
Adolf Fisher's last statement, in short, was, "Hoorah for anarchy. Today is the happiest day of my life!" right before he was hanged. Chutzpah!
These are true heroes!
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Arrest should be the least you expect when fighting the system. Some of us will probably give it all.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)The crumbs that was the New Deal is because of major agitation by socialist and communist groups at that time. FDR enacted the New Deal to "save capitalism from itself." Back then, Labor had many avenues to wield influence and force. We have nothing near that now. Unions specifically, and Labor in general, are completely marginalized. So, any individual front, or even something as noticeable as Occupy, are going to get short thrift in our corporate owned media.
I think things are going to get a lot worse before we, as a class, develops its consciousness.
Looky there; I'm talking like a Marxist.
In all seriousness, anarchists in general (with exceptions), never really put a premium on the material conditions being necessary for revolution (myself included). We generally think that either creating the new in the mold of the old (Mutualism; evolutionary), or igniting and propelling the masses by "propaganda of the deed; revolutionary) was/is sufficient to establish a socialist/anarchist society.
But the way we Americans just take everything the government tells us as gospel, I'm afraid material conditions may be a prerequisite.