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[blindpig]

Interesting link, anax. Good summary and brief history.

The other side of the coin is in in how thoroughly frightened "they" were of us. A spectre was haunting America, the spectre of "Communism"... by which was meant everything from the Knights of Labor to Gompers to James to actual radical socialists. The "main-stream" periodicals of the era are filled with attacks, diatribes, rants and general panic about the working class movement. Take a look at the link below and you will find dozens of anti-labor. anti-union, and anti-socialist political cartoons from Harper's Weekly, Puck, Judge, and others. Oddly, they made me feel great. And most of this begins 50 years before the Russian Revolution.

We were feared once. The buyout to the suburbs (to the extent that it was ever real) bought a small ranch house and a car but it also bought the three "I"s - impotence, ignorance, and irrelevence...

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages ... 10&ID=4223 (http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages ... 10&ID=4223)

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/spcol ... -20_13.jpg

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/spcol ... -20_11.jpg

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/spcol ... -19_40.jpg

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/spcol ... -36_10.jpg

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/spcol ... 9-40_4.jpg

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/spcol ... -20_18.jpg

http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/spcol ... -20_24.jpg

[blindpig]

(I have skipped over a few less relevant posts & the end of the thread which petered out, as they often do.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20130327203 ... 48009.html