Post Akl1VePc2EaDRmeG8m by ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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(DIR) Post #Akl1VePc2EaDRmeG8m by ingrid@everything.happens.horse
2024-08-07T20:23:03Z
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spending too much time reading and thinking about 19th and early 20th century anarchists and getting annoyed that in the 21st century people are labeled "socialists" when they don't even want to murder a king or blow up Wall Street
(DIR) Post #Akl1Vewa3exF624aWm by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-08-07T20:32:05Z
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@ingrid ah yes, the old Overton Window
(DIR) Post #Akl1Vfi5D2x5TMIWZM by foolishowl@social.coop
2024-08-07T20:52:40Z
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@wilbr @ingrid I feel in general there's been a hardening of social structures over time."The Many-Headed Hydra" is a (somewhat romanticized) account of revolts around the Atlantic in the 17th-19th centuries. The earliest ones were the ones that came nearest success.The Communist Manifesto addressed class conscious working class revolts already happening.Reform movements moved rapidly in the early 20th century, and were understood by radicals as retreats from past militancy.
(DIR) Post #Akl1VgSARhobmHrKOu by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-08-08T12:47:41Z
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@foolishowl @wilbr @ingrid Find and take a look at the list of people interviewed by President Taft's blue-ribbon committee, which ended up recommending a lot of measures which ultimately (after the whole debate was scuppered for 20 years by the First World War) ended up in the New Deal, and were considered frighteningly socialist even then. Many of them were not the sort of people who would be heard by such a commission today!
(DIR) Post #Akl1Vhirj6lZiMgB4C by foolishowl@social.coop
2024-08-07T20:56:28Z
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@wilbr @ingrid As some people pointed out in 2020, the radical left was in the strange position of arguing in favor of authority, in the form of medical advice, against opportunistic attacks that threatened our lives.This is the time of monsters.