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Lucy Parsons, born a slave and later a widely known anarchist, declared in one of her most famous speeches:

How many of the wage class, as a class, are there who can avoid obeying the commands of the master (employing) class, as a class? Not many, are there? Then are you not slaves to the money power as much as were the black slaves to the Southern slaveholders? Then we ask you again: What are you going to do about it? You had the ballot then. Could you have voted away black slavery? You know you could not because the slaveholders would not hear of such a thing for the same reason you can’t vote yourselves out of wage-slavery.

from this article in jacoffbin

from natopedia

Lucy E. Parsons (c. 1851 – 1942) was an American social anarchist and later anarcho-communist

She was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World and edited radical newspapers.

Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, Parsons moved towards communism. She became a notorious political figure and Chicago police attempted for decades to stop her speaking publicly.

Every day I learn about a new cool person from history, it never stops.

What remains of the IWW in the USA has a framed sweater she knitted for Albert her husband while he was on death row because a bomb thrown by an unknown killed some cops at at a strike he was an organiser for.

It won't change the class relations of society but it may raise class consciousness slightly. Hating the bourgeoisie is an excellent starting point.

I'm ready to be there with you comrade.

Please anarchists, I want to be owned.

Preparing to submit my new pamphlet to marxists.org

A Dialectical Comparison of Conditions in the 19th and 21st Centuries and How Useful Revolutionary Tactics Have Changed

or Why It's a Good Idea This Time

If there are copycats, it still needs to be shown that it actually is effective in terms of political change. Likewise, if change does happen in the near future, it would be unclear whether it was already in the course of its own development with or without Luigi

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Hopefully some executives get an early departure from the mortal plane

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I immediately read that with full vocals and musical background. Nice job!